To better understand the competitive dynamics between an early and a later entrant, the present study examines the extent to which word-of-mouth regarding the later entrant and the later entrant’s similarity to the early entrant influences the consumer decision process. The authors hypothesize that the influence of word-of-mouth and similarity depends on the nature of the decision-making task, ...

in today's competitive market, quality has an important role in manufacturing system. the manufacturers attempt to maintain their production system in a proper condition to produce high quality products. one of the key factors to achieve this goal is maintenance policy. most studies on maintenance focused on machines and less attention has been paid to human resources as the most important...

New product development is an important business process and constitutes a major contributor to the business excellence of any manufacturing firm. Designing an optimized new product development process is an important problem in itself and is of significant practical and research interest. Lead time is an important performance metric for a product development organization. In this paper, we dev...

Abstract Compaired with mart manufacturing and digital manufacturing, virtual is a more advanced mode, which flexible, inexpensive suitable for modern competitive society. No matter what type of Manufacturing Execution System (MES) necessary plays key role. So this paper focuses on the MES in manufacturing. serves as bridge to connect upper planning layer control factory. It has at least 8 func...

This paper examines the effect of market-entry timing on a firm’s speed and cost entry in setting where firm needs to build plant for market entry. Based our developed analytical model, we provide seven scenarios cost. We test hypotheses liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry. use Wooldridge’s three-step instrumental variable (IV) approach account endogeneity bias. find that late entrant has (1) ...

scheduling has become an attractive area for artificial intelligence researchers. on other hand, in today's real-world manufacturing systems, the importance of an efficient maintenance schedule program cannot be ignored because it plays an important role in the success of manufacturing facilities. a maintenance program may be considered as the heath care of manufacturing machines and equip...

It is seldom possible to plausibly define and observe a pool of potential entrants to a market. This study overcomes that limitation by taking advantage of an opportunity to reasonably define the potential entrants into MTBE production, a rapidly growing environmental product from the mid-1980’s to mid-1990’s. Potential entrants are identified as those firms having access to specific assets tha...

    Dynamic cellular manufacturing systems,   Mixed-integer non-linear programming,   Production planning, Manufacturing attributes   This paper presents a novel mixed-integer non-linear programming model for the design of a dynamic cellular manufacturing system (DCMS) based on production planning (PP) decisions and several manufacturing attributes. Such an integrated DCMS model with an extensi...