With the help of a standard 2 × 2 trade model, we develop several hypotheses on the effects of cross-border sourcing on skill intensity in production. The focus is on cross-border sourcing of low-skill-intensive components of exports and import-competing products. We test the aforementioned hypotheses with panel data for manufacturing in the European Union (EU). We find that outward processing ...

technology, equipment and applications related to the automated assembly and robotics industries. Feature articles include updates on the latest manufacturing research, tutorials on a particular manufacturing technology and field reports on installed manufacturing technologies, all from a technical perspective. Each issue also includes additional brief articles, product announcements and event ...

introduction the environmental issues have been considered in all development plans of iran. for example, the forty-fifth, forty-seventh, and fiftieth principles of “iran constitution” directly refer to environmental issues. according to the future outlook of the islamic republic of iran “having the favorable living environment” is regarded as the characteristics of the iranian society in the h...

Design and manufacturing technology of high pressure multistage pumps which are commonly utilized in oil and gas industries, used to be imported from foreign companies. Due to international sanctions against I. R. Iran, it started to be designed and launched domestically. Nowadays all production lines including design, manufacturing and testing of these pumps have been performed by Iranian expe...

Because overall energy consumption intensity in China’s manufacturing industry is extremely high, the study of energy efficiency in that industry, with an analysis of the policy impacts of energy intensity reduction and other key factors, will no doubt improve energy utilization in the industry and stimulate sustainable development within it. This paper uses 2004–2014 panel data of 28 manufactu...

Lean Manufacturing has helped several industries to achieve operational and manufacturing excellence by increasing productivity and enhancing quality, while reducing waste and costs. However, the wood industry has been historically slow in adopting this philosophy and its many tools. In times when overseas competition has taken big portions of the traditional market share for U.S based wood ind...

technology, equipment and applications related to the automated assembly and robotics industries. Feature articles include updates on the latest manufacturing research, tutorials on a particular manufacturing technology and field reports on installed manufacturing technologies, all from a technical perspective. Each issue also includes additional brief articles, product announcements and event ...

Based on panel data of 28 manufacturing industries sectors in 2005–2015 years, this paper first estimated the level of 28 manufacturing industries sectors technological progress, and then, using panel threshold technology, calculated the impact of three environmental regulation change rates on technological progress change rate to analyze the relationship between environmental regulations and t...

Today’s manufacturing industry requires product data management system (PDM) for efficient product development and production. Manufacturing industries must deal with competition, time to market, reduction of the cost of doing business, and rapid development of new services and products. To address these requirements industries must constantly reconsider and optimize the way they do business an...

Along with the progress of globalization, speed and efficiency have become more critical for any industry than ever before. In this sense, the concept and methods of lean management, promoting these performances, have been deployed from manufacturing, its origin industry, to other industries. This paper deals with this management style in the construction industry, called lean construction. In ...