The pattern of economic competitiveness has changed globally now days. Many countries have joined the global economic competition to capture global market in order to remain profitable and competitive by increasing its productivity. There are many factors that influence the productivity of a manufacturing organisation. The most widely tackled issue is how to improve efficiency and productivity....

Applying reuse-supporting techniques has the potential for increasing software productivity, shortening development time and decreasing maintenance costs. However, at present, there is no methodology incorporating reuse as a standard development practice and the question of which factors affect reuse, their level of significance and assessment is still a controversial issue. Code reuse, on the ...

The semiconductor industry has gone through significant changes in the last decade. Competition has increased dramatically. Customers focus on product quality, product delivery time and cost of product. Because of these, a company should introduce a quality system to improve and increase both quality and productivity continuously. Total productive maintenance (TPM) is a methodology that aims to...

The goal of supply chain management is to provide products with best quality, low costs and shortest delay of delivery corresponding to customers’ expectations. To ensure that, companies must be in continuous research for management methodologies which allows them the possibility to improve their financial results by decreasing costs and improving their process and thus customers satisfaction. ...

Effective use of labor, providing system flexibility, increasing productivity, decreasing lead times and costs are some of the most important factors influencing selection of material handling equipment. In this study, a decision support system (MHAD) considering these factors for material handling equipment selection is developed. MHAD consists of a database, a rulebased system and multi-attri...

Social networks open up new business opportunities for customer acquisition and retention, facilitate knowledge transfer within the company, and can positively influence work climate. However, they can also quickly destroy a company image that took years to build, while the use of social networks at work not only risks a loss in productivity but may also undermine legal obligations. Eager netwo...

The importance of reconfiguration service in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has driven many researchers to develop various ways to reduce incurred costs in software maintenance on sensor nodes. However, the lack of utilization of software engineering methodologies in previous studies can cause numerous efforts to configure the WSN for each site and modification of the system to introduce additio...