Implementing lean manufacturing concepts is essential for companies in the manufacturing and service industries to survive in the very competitive global marketplace. A key point is to eliminate waste while delivering value to the customers. Thus, graduates from engineering programs such as manufacturing, industrial and systems engineering and engineering management must be able to focus and ap...

A fuzzy graph is a symmetric binary fuzzy relation on a fuzzy subset. The concept of fuzzy sets and fuzzy relations was introduced by L.A.Zadeh in 1965cite{zl} and further studiedcite{ka}. It was Rosenfeldcite{ra} who considered fuzzy relations on fuzzy sets and developed the theory of fuzzy graphs in 1975. The concepts of fuzzy trees, blocks, bridges and cut nodes in fuzzy graph has been studi...

This paper focuses on the role played by the concept of Common Ground by investigating various roles played by consensus and dissensus in different argumentation theories. A dynamic conception of Common Ground as a second order consensus will be invoked instead of a static definition as starting point, condition or result of an argumentative practice.

Rescue therapy with beclomethasone combined with albuterol reduced the risk of exacerbations requiring oral corticosteroid treatment, even without daily steroid use, according to a placebo-controlled study of children and teenagers with mild persistent asthma. “Assessed from a risk-benefit point of view, our data suggest that, in children with mild persistent asthma, use of rescue inhaled corti...

Although change management panaceas have been widely discussed in the business and management literature for several decades, not many publications address the role of simulation modeling in supporting these panaceas. This paper investigates four management innovation and change programs: TQM, JIT, BPR and Process Innovation and discusses how simulation modeling could increase their effectivene...

pydgin A (Py)thon (D)SL for (G)enerating (In)struction set simulators. executable provides a trace-JIT to dynamically compile frequently interpreted hot title = (Pydgin: Generating Fast Instruction Set Simulators from Simple Architecture. the behavior of the instruction set simulator with less than 1000 lines of C code (12) R. Leupers, et. al, "Generation of interpretive and compiled instructio...

This paper analyzes the impact of information technologies (IT) on logistics by conducting a survey of literatures on academic logistics journals and practitioner journals. The literature survey and practice find that third party logistic providers have better opportunity to leverage IT since they need to have interoperable IT systems with their customers. The business philosophy of Just-In-Tim...

With the widespread use of manufacturing philosophies such as Just-In-Time (JIT), emphasis has shifted to the simultaneous consideration of cardinal and ordinal data in supplier selection process. Traditionally, many optimization models of supplier selection assume that the average prices of related expenditures are constant. This is far beyond the real situation. In fact, suppliers usually off...

This study constructs multi-item scales to measure key components of JIT production and manufacturing strategy and examines the relationship between them, and the impact of manufacturing strategy on JIT performance for machinery, electrical & electronics and automobile industries in Japan, USA, and Italy. JIT production scales include JIT schedule, JIT layout, JIT delivery by suppliers, JIT lin...