Cleaner Production is a comparatively new approach to dealing with environmental concerns and grasping the opportunities arising from those challenges. It aims at avoiding the generation of waste and emissions, by making more efficient use of materials and energy, through modifications in the production processes, input materials, operating practices and/or products and services. Although Clean...

Lean philosophy, which promotes business excellence through continuous improvement, originates from the Japanese car manufacturer, Toyota’s Production System (TPS). An area where lean has not been fully explored is remanufacturing, a process that brings used products back to useful life. Remanufacturing is often a more complex process than manufacturing due to the uncertainty of process steps/t...

Manufacturing companies are currently competing for the identification of innovative value propositions to position themselves in the market. This led to a shift from providing traditional transaction-based and product-centric offerings towards the provision of integrated solutions to their customers. In this context, Service Engineering, the discipline concerned with the systematic development...

2 From its very genesis APV has maintained an impeccable reputation for excellence worldwide. That standard is perpetuated in the field of homogenization and high pressure pumps. It's a tradition that dates back to our invention of the homogenizer in the early 1900's. That desire to excel in saving our customers is demonstrated today through innovative design, precision, engineering, quality ma...

Accurate surface metrology and transmission characteristics measurements have become vital to certify the manufacturing excellence in the field of glass visors, windshields, menu boards and transportation industries. We report a simple, cost-effective and novel technique for the measurement of geometric aberrations in transparent materials such as glass sheets, Perspex, etc. The technique makes...

Pasta is the Italian product par excellence and it is now popular worldwide. Pasta of a superior quality is made with pure durum wheat. In Italy, addition of Triticum aestivum (common wheat) during manufacturing is not allowed and, without adequate labeling, its presence is considered an adulteration. PCR-related techniques can be employed for the detection of common wheat contaminations. In th...

The objective of this paper is to present the research results in modelling the process for providing satisfaction of company’s customers and their requirements – the key elements of the model which is the final result of the research. This model implies a process approach and acceptable marketing research in the beginning, as well as appropriate evaluation at the end. The model is harmonised w...

European manufacturing enterprise will progressively migrate from traditional product-centric business to product-based service-oriented virtual enterprise and ecosystems However, the changes in this servitization process must be accompanied using specific techniques. This paper aims at presenting the principles of migration from traditional tangible product company to a set of virtual organisa...

This study was carried out to investigate the physiochemical properties of local honey collected from different flora of Gilgit-Baltistan namely: Herbal, Acacia and Berry, promoted by some local honeybee keepers who are supposed to be famous for quality honey produce. The physicochemical parameters like moisture content, pH, titratable acidity, total sugars, reducing sugar and non-reducing suga...