–Supply Chain Management emerged as one of the most powerful business improvement tool available today. A number of SCM practices such as supplier, customer, ERP, subcontracting, E-procurement, EDI, E-commerce have been addressed in Indian manufacturing industries and a conceptual model was formulated based on previous literature and a questionnaire developed, survey was performed. This paper e...

Concurrent engineering is considered as a key concept that enables manufacturing companies to develop new products rapidly with cost saving, without affecting its quality. The purpose of this paper is to report the evaluation of the level of practices of concurrent engineering in Malaysian manufacturing industries. This evaluation was carried out by sending the questionnaire to the appropriate ...

This paper presents an analysis of the evolution of pay inequality in Colombia’s manufacturing sector from 1992-2004. Colombia’s implementation of economic reforms, including the opening of the economy and the financial liberalization that began in the early 1990s, were the main drivers of change in the structure of the manufacturing sector, provoking fluctuations in pay inequality. Changes in ...

Smart manufacturing (SM) is a term generally applied to the improvement in manufacturing operations through integration of systems, linking of physical and cyber capabilities, and taking advantage of information including leveraging the big data evolution. SM adoption has been occurring unevenly across industries, thus there is an opportunity to look to other industries to determine solution an...

The rapid diffusion of technology and manufacturing processes to less developed nations has been one of the most significant devel­ opments in the interaction between advanced and less developed countries in recent years. Industries that were almost exclusively concentrated in the most advanced nations less than three decades ago are now commonplace in many developing countries. Thus, while tec...

Manufacturing systems involve decisions concerning production processes, capacity, planning, and control. In a MTO manufacturing systems, strategic decisions concerning fulfilment of customer requirement, manufacturing cost, and due date of delivery are the most important. In order to accelerate the decision making process, research on decision making structure when receiving order and sequenci...

Empirical studies have shown that the size distribution of firms can be described as a lognormal or Pareto distribution. However, these studies have focused on developed countries and little attention has been devoted to developing countries. Using the variable of number of employees as a measure of firm size, this paper investigates the shape of firm size distribution in the food & beverages i...

according to the recent literature, the expansion of intra-industry trade increases the intra-industrial excess job reallocation. based on lovely and nelson (2002), this study examined the hypothesis that marginal intra-industry trade has a positive effect on the excess job reallocation in iranian industries. therefore, we have employed a panel technique for iranian manufacturing industries at ...

Kaveh PourAkbar Saffar1,2 , Nima JamilPour3 and Gholamreza Rouhi4 1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran 2Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 3School of Mechanical Engineering, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran 4Department of Mechanical Engineering and School of Human Kinetics, Uni...