Contemporary business process management technology has successfully been implemented to streamline and coordinate administrative business processes. The use of this type of technology to automate processes in complex manufacturing is however less mature. In this paper we discuss the research challenges and requirements for the application and extension of business process management concepts a...

The decision process that organisations utilise when evaluating technology investment opportunities is a complex and even political process; however, the correct decision can provide the organisation with considerable operational and competitive benefits. The research presented in this paper presents the findings of a postal survey of the benefits provided by technology investments to large Ger...

The Acumence Manufacturing Business Intelligence Solution is a comprehensive business intelligence solution that supports realtime decision-making in high-volume manufacturing enterprises. It is uniquely architected for the real-time information technology needs and constantly changing operating environment of today’s manufacturers, so that operations and supply chain performance can be easily ...

Companies that are seeking to improve their environmental performance have a challenge in reconciling high level goals and practical decision making at the working level. To address this challenge companies need to develop key environmental metrics from high level goals and cascade them through all levels of management decision making. One decision-making level of interest in manufacturing invo...

In consideration of the fact that production technologies are resources that can be exploited across various industrial sectors, their current and prospective technological properties are likely to face requirements from different target industries. Because these requirements can diverge extremely between industries, a methodology will be proposed that enables to assess the compatibility of div...

Currently, the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries are moving through a period of unparalleled change. Major multinational pharmaceutical companies are restructuring, consolidating, merging and more importantly critically assessing their competitiveness to ensure constant growth in an ever-more demanding market where the cost of developing novel products is continuously increasing. The pha...

We analyze the trend of regional integration (or local protection) in current China through exploring its effect on local growth rate. Given specified assumptions on the endogenous growth model refined from Chinese characteristics, we show that any form of economic integration always makes both regions better off. Even with completely local protection for commodities flow but having technology ...

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. invented a technique to make polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) porous using PTFE stretching technology, which was patented in 1962.(1) Drawing on the technique, the company has subsequently released various porous PTFE products such as filters and hollow fiber products under the trade name of POREFLON. Porous PTFE filters, one of these porous PTFE products, use s...

In recent decades, along with a deeper integration into the world economy, when Vietnamese enterprises have had to respect and comply with international competitive laws, the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has drawn a lot of attention and become an essential requirement for enterprises today. However, many Vietnamese small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are still wandering ...