Swedish manufacturing industry has previous held a leading position regarding the development of attractive industrial work environments, but increasing market competition has changed the possibilities to maintain the position. The purpose of this literature study is therefore to describe and analyze how Swedish manufacturing industry manages work environment and production development in the n...

Significant Points — Fifty percent work in the construction industry, and another 20 percent are found in manufacturing industries. — Growth of the construction industry will be the driving force behind the demand for cost estimators; employment of cost estimators in manufacturing should remain relatively stable. — In construction and manufacturing, job prospects should be best for those with i...

We consider a network of service stations with different classes of customers where interarrival times and service requirments have ph~e-type distributions, and the service discipline is an arbitrary work-conserving policy. We show that the underlying Markov process is ergodic, if and only if the utilization at eaclt. service station is less than one. We also show, that all the moments of the q...

In many a mind, the place of making software is an art studio where skilled artisans "create" works of art and this could never be made into a shop floor. This perspective also encourages our "professional artists" to draw the "sunrise" for the millionth time in their own way. There are several others who argue that manufacturing of software must be driven by a "robust process" that is complian...

Introduction Manufacturing strategy as a concept and an area of study and practice has been growing for the last 30 years. However, as it has grown the clarity of manufacturing strategy has decreased as different views and different approaches have emerged. This article will briefly review the history of manufacturing strategy, then it will review the field from several different perspectives. ...

This study undertook to discern the effect the production strategy dimension had on technological growth in a developing country. It utilized robust indicators that measured the penetration of advanced manufacturing technologies in the Ugandan machine tool driven industry. Poor or the lack thereof of comprehensive production strategies had a profound effect on the development of this industry. ...

the quality of firms’ reaction against demand uncertainty affects the production inputs employment. in this research i have studied and compared the behavior of active firms in manufacturing sector with respect to the risk attitude and tested it’s effect on production inputs combination(with the special emphasize on labor employment). the research findings reveal that active firms in manufactur...

the objective of this paper is to determine the efficiency of manufacturing companies in kenya over the period of 2009 to 2011 as well as suggesting appropriate policies to be employed by the manufacturing companies in kenya based on the findings of the study. three critical inputs variables (raw materials, staff expenses and plant and machinery) and two output variables (net sale and earnings ...