Large corporations may be composed of multiple strategic business units (SBUs), each of which is responsible for its own profitability. Innovation performance management of SBUs boosts corporation business results. In the present work, SBU ranking based on innovation performance was addressed. The contribution of the proposed model was threefold: (1) it proposed a fuzzy analytic hierarchy proce...

“Gainsharing” is a business practice that can reduce costs and increase efficiency while engaging and rewarding front-line workers, those who work most directly with customers or with the product a company manufactures. Although the practice reportedly began as early as the nineteenth century, it became popular in the 1930s in the steel manufacturing industry. While several different forms of p...

Manufacturing strategy is a plan for moving a company from where it is to where it wants to be. Determining the best manufacturing strategy is not easy because of the wide range of choices and constraints a company faces. Manufacturing strategy frameworks or models are helpful because they identify the objects that comprise manufacturing strategy and organize these objects into a structure that...

This chapter proposes a knowledge space concept and a recursive approach to servitizing in the manufacturing industry. Manufacturing companies need to move up the value chain and compete on the basis of value delivered rather than on the basis of typical products. Therefore, more corporations are adding value to their core corporate offerings through services, which is called servitization, and...

As the result of the broken-up value chain of the world, design becomes an independent commodity. Goods often are designed in one company and produced in another company. Although product is shaped in manufacturing companies of supply chain, design quality is the key sticking-point for product quality. Therefore, finished goods quality lies on the quality of Design-Manufacturing Chain. This pap...

Customer experience is increasingly the differentiator between successful companies and those who struggle. Currently, customer experiences become more dynamic; and they advance with each interaction between the company and a customer. Every customer conversation and any effort to evolve these conversations would be beneficial and should ultimately result in a positive customer experience. The ...

Under the circumstances of low-carbon economy, the theoretical applications of the green supply chain management of steel and iron manufacture are to reform and innovate the present manufacturing process, enhance the controlling and reclaiming, and recycling using of the waste steel and iron, steel slag, and dust emissions, establish the green supply chain structure oriented to the cycle of “re...

results the overall prevalence of occupational asthma was 9.7%. this rate was 13.8% in the exposed group. logistic regression analysis showed that even after adjustment for confounding factors, a significant correlation existed between the frequency of occupational asthma and exposure to the produced dust particles (p < 0.05). in addition, age, work experience, body mass index, cigarette smokin...

T C teel remains one of the most important manufacturing industries in Indiana, and the dominant manufacturing industry in Northwest Indiana. The Chicago region continues to lead the U.S. in steel production, accounting for as much as 28% of the total output of steel in the country.1 Currently, steel mill employment accounts for nearly 10% of total employment in Northwest Indiana,2 compared wit...