ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING AS AN ENABLER FOR ENHANCED CONSUMER INVOLVEMENT

Integrated management systems: An agile manufacturing enabler

Research has shown that organisations are moving towards agile manufacturing in response to a rapidly changing business environment. Agility is the competence of an organisation to respond to unpredictable business forces. This requires that an organisation develop dynamic management systems that are able to support continuous change. This paper examines systems thinking and proposes a holistic...

Emerging Technology as a Key Enabler for Modernizing Pharmaceutical Manufacturing.

An Engineering Services Framework for Additive Manufacturing

Additive manufacturing is now mature and is becoming a mainstream production technique for various industries. It is important that engineering services organizations equip themselves to provide a new range of services in this sector. This paper presents an engineering process framework for evaluating and adopting additive manufacturing. It describes tools developed to improve engineering servi...

Motivation as an Enabler for Academic Success

Student motivation as an academic enabler for school success is discussed. Contrary to many views, however, the authors conceive of student motivation as a multifaceted construct with different components. Accordingly, the article includes a discussion of four key components of student motivation including academic self-efficacy, attributions, intrinsic motivation, and achievement goals. Resear...

Modularity as an Enabler for Evolutionary Acquisition

The end of the cold war witnessed several significant changes in the defense acquisition environment. Budgets declined and the scope of missions expanded. At first, the DoD did not respond well to these pressures resulting in cost overruns and schedule delays becoming the norm. In an effort to change this situation, national security officials decided to fundamentally change the way systems wer...