Engineering for development, production, and other product related company activities are being organized in virtual systems for lifecycle management of product data. This new age of engineering is a result of the continuous development for step-by-step moving of product design, analysis and other production engineering activities from conventional environments to modeling environments during t...

Schools are working to improve achievement through the examination of instructional practice and the use of instructional technology. This article provides informed commentary on the state of school reform and the need for continuous improvement, instructional improvement and instructional technology improvement. It also presents advocacy for the use of a continuous improvement system called le...

Themanagement of technology embodies human choice and freedom, and as such, itmaynot detach fromphilosophy and psychology, particularly in the innovation, knowledge and learning paradigm. This paradigm heralds knowledge workers in systems of innovationwith renewed emphasis on information and intellectual capital as the primary assets for production. The thinking styles and cognitive preferences...

This article deals with the specification of basics Lean Manufacturing principles that should help to designing lean production solutions for own applications. The 9 principles discussed in this paper are: continuous flow; lean machines simplicity; workplace organization; parts presentation; reconfigurability; product quality; maintainability; ease of access; and ergonomics. The presented artic...

This paper presents an exploratory study of lean manufacturing implementation in Malaysian automotive industries. A questionnaire survey is used to explore the extent of lean manufacturing implementation. This paper also examines the drivers and barriers that influence the implementation of lean manufacturing. The survey was performed on sixty Malaysian automotive components manufacturing firms...

The aim of this paper was to empirically investigate what aspects that gave rise to positive and negative reactions among employees in Swedish companies that introduced Lean Production, and how they perceived their work. Two Swedish production plants that had introduced Lean Production 2-6 years before this study were chosen. Deep interviews with 19 bluecollar workers were performed. Continuous...

Continuous improvement of hard technology (software, electronic, mechanical, chemical, biological, etc.) systems and institutional (mixed human and technology based) systems is examined from a system perspective, applying system engineering and assessment methodologies and tools. Class and containment hierarchies are used to simplify the modeling of complex systems and their dynamic processes, ...