This article presents a process improvement study applied at a local paper manufacturing company based on customized Lean Six Sigma methodologies. More specifically, the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) project management methodology and various lean tools are utilized to streamline processes and enhance productivity. Two performance measures namely production rate and Ove...

Extended and networked enterprises distribute the design of products, planning of the production process, and manufacturing regionally if not globally. The usual face-to-face work is going to be replaced, at least partly, if not totally, by computer mediated collaboration. Awaited are reduced problems of resolution cycle time, increasing productivity and agility, and reduced travel to remote si...

This report documents the results of a study that is important to everyone who manages or develops software. The study examines the impact of the Personal Software Process SM (PSP SM ) on the performance of 298 software engineers . 1 The report describes the effect of PSP on key performance dimensions of these engineers, including their ability to estimate and plan their work, the quality of th...

This report documents the results of a study that is important to everyone who manages or develops software. The study examines the impact of the Personal Software ProcessSM (PSPSM) on the performance of 298 software engineers.1 The report describes the effect of PSP on key performance dimensions of these engineers, including their ability to estimate and plan their work, the quality of the sof...

The productive capacity of soils is directly associated with their organic matter content which is the main reservoir of organic carbon and main source of nutrients for plants (Grandy et al., 2006; Studdert et al. 1997; Sisti et al., 2004; Urquiaga et al., 2004). A sustained increase in the concentration of organic carbon is needed to establish a land management system where the degradation of ...

purpose: the poultry industry is one of the sub-agricultural sectors that is able to attract capital and apply updated world technology to earn a special place in production and employment in the country. this position requires adherence to modern management methods and consistency with economic fundamentals. given the importance of this industry, this study investigated the effect of manageria...

Under the assumption that knowledge is endogenously produced through a learning-by-doing process, we show that a standard one-sector real business cycle model augmented with only a learning-by-doing technology can exhibit an expectations-driven business cycle in response to news about a future temporary change in total factor productivity. News about future productivity immediately increases th...