Manufacturing companies in developing countries, irrespective of size or sector , often use ISO 9000 as a route to world-class status. Based on the results of an investigation by questionnaire in various manufacturing companies in Vietnam, the research is aimed to study if ISO 9000 implementation has any impact on improving the company competitiveness. Firstly, the study examines the situation ...

The project involves the development of a custom designed hybrid AI application for a company for capturing process improvement knowledge. The company in question is based in Bangalore and is a vendor to General Electric. Considering the competitive nature of the manufacturing industry and the demands from customers for competitive prices, it has become necessary for vendor companies to not onl...

The PEGS (Production and Environmental Generic Scheduler) program is a new generic scheduling program for manufacturing companies. It includes sort and search algorithms and can operate on the basis of elapsed time or economic values. Program performance is compared to a series of published benchmarks. The case study presented here illustrates the use of PEGS for a flow shop configuration at a ...

Many authors studied work situations and, mainly, ergonomics projects concerning the financial benefit point of view. At the same time seems to be little information available concerning these financial benefits in manufacturing companies' processes. The aim of this article is to identify if there enough information available within a company to quantify the financial benefits of an ergonomic p...

Over the last decade, numerous companies have tried to adopt a commercial ERP package in the world-wide e-business and ecommerce environment. However, most of commercial ERP packages are designed for a large-scaled company so that it is difficult to adopt a commercial ERP package in terms of small and medium-size companies. Therefore, it is necessary for a small and medium-size company to seek ...

Today the changes in the environment, be those business related or manufacturing, are both frequent and rapid. Industry has talked about the adaptation to meet the changes over a decade. Adaptation as a word has gained quite a reputation. Adaptation is expected in design of products and processes and in the realization of processes. The adaptation in the field of manufacturing sector is commonl...

This research is a case study of the impact of the introduction of information technology on the internal operations of a fire truck manufacturing company in Thailand and on its supply chain. Using Action Research, this study focuses on a fire truck manufacturing company, where supply chain efficiency was not improving and where costs of, and relationships with, both upstream suppliers and down...

Michael Dell started his computer company in 1984 with a simple business insight. He could bypass the dealer channel through which personal computers were then being sold and sell directly to customers, building products to order. Dell's direct model eliminated the dealer's markup and the risks associated with carrying large inventories of finished goods. In this interview, Michael Dell provide...

Sorting and mating is a very common practice in high precision manufacturing, as well in the watch industry, biomedical or automotive industry. This strategy helps to increase the assembly yield, but is costly and timeconsuming. The question is, when is it necessary to apply sorting and mating, and when can it by avoided without loss in product quality? We furthermore show in this paper that th...

Environmental sustainability in manufacturing sector has been allocated a major consideration in the international literature. Due to growing concerns over the high effect of SMEs on world manufacturing industries and their high contribution to pollution; this research attempts to focus on the key parameters that interact in the application of environmental management system, taking into accoun...