In recent decades, by introducing lean manufacturing the vulnerability to system disturbances has increased and so, the demand for dependable production equipment. The need for having high production equipment availability causes companies to need a more effective and efficient maintenance strategy in order to stay competitive. Despite the increasing demand on reliable production equipment, few...

Global warming, rising energy prices and increasing awareness of “green” customers have brought energy efficient manufacturing on top of the agenda of governments as well as of industrial companies. The industrial sector still accounts for about 33% of the final energy consumption. This paper will contribute to a more energy efficient manufacturing by demonstrating how energy efficiency can be ...

Purpose: This research aims to analyze and provide empirical evidence on cash position, collateralizable assets firm's life cycle dividend policy with size debt equity ratio as the control variables. Methodology: The population includes manufacturing companies listed Indonesia Stock Exchange Philippines during period of 2015-2017. total samples 144 were gathered from 81 Philippine. To data, a q...

Purpose The purpose of the study is to develop knowledge on implementation Hoshin Kanri (HK) in small manufacturing companies. Two research questions are addressed: (1) what factors influence HK companies? (2) How do Design/methodology/approach presented this paper based an extensive literature review and data from process five In review, influencing HK, lean production total quality management...

Increasingly, companies are taking part in process improvement programmes, which brings about a growing need for employees to interpret and act on data representations. We have carried out case studies in a range of companies to identify the existence and need of what we call Techno-mathematical Literacies (TmL): functional mathematical knowledge mediated by tools and grounded in the context of...