Manufacturing is a global activity that started during the industrial revolution in the late 19th century to cater for the large-scale production of products. Since then, manufacturing has changed tremendously through the innovations of technology, processes, materials, communication and transportation. The major challenge facing manufacturing is to produce more products using less material, le...

the study compared economic efficiency among smallholder farmers who practiced low external input technology [leit] and high external input technology [heit] agriculture in a harsh macroeconomic environment typified by inadequate fertilizer subsidy in imo state, nigeria. cross sectional data generated from 160 smallholder farmers randomly selected from 2 out of the 3 agricultural zones in imo s...

The article analyzes the use of 3D-printing technologies in construction industry. main trends development this area related to modern software for 3D printers, printer designs and forming extrusion heads also formulations building mixes used printing are noted. relevance using concrete is conditioned by creation unique structural elements, objects landscape gardening architecture or buildings....

The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. a Using a bottom-up cost model, we assess the impact of initial factory capital expenditure (capex) on photovoltaic (PV) module minimum sustainable price (MSP) and industry-wide trends. We find capex to have two important impacts on PV manufacturing. First, capex strongly influ...

Flexible Manufacturing system and design is an emerging area in management of technology across Organizations and Business in the manufacturing and services sector, addressing the need of the industry on Flexible Manufacturing for the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises to meet their strategic objectives and apply business process management approach to implement this emerging technology. An ove...

weakness of research & development strategy for technology transfer management in product design activities is one of the most difficulties for local companies in iran. therefore, this paper trying to present a method to indicting research & development strategy for identifying fit technology with requirements of customer and provide a solution for acquisition of needs technologies of companies...