The present work attempts to find the gap between agreement level and adoption level of various supply chain management (SCM) practices in paint companies who are operating in India. An empirical study was carried out with paint companies. Paired samples ttest was used to find out the difference in agreement and adoption level of various SCM practices and multiple regression analysis was used t...

When human operator is in the control loop of a robotic system, which operates in unstructured, complex and dynamic environments such as those in construction and steel bridge maintenance, human factors will have significant effect on the operational performance and control of the robot. This paper aims to investigate this effect and develop efficient methods for operational performance improve...

In many services, the value or quality derived by a customer from a service depends upon the time the service provider (SP) devotes to the customer and this valuation differs across customers. Examples of such services are website or landscape design. Customers procure the service based on the expected value to be delivered, prices charged and the timeliness of service. Two commonly used pricin...

Dynamic Performance Stubs support performance improvement. They can be used to identify “hidden” bottlenecks and also to provide better estimations of the gain from performance improvement. The idea behind these stubbing mechanism will be described, the core concept will be explained and a closer look on the possibility of creating stubs will be given. Furthermore an introduction on “How to use...

Robotics and Internet industry can be considered as one of the most important specification of the technology improvement today. Here, we introduce the remote operational systems as a new improving and great technology which is the result of technology improvement in both fields and we have tried to study the emerge of it and review the various application in order to present the view of operat...

As a “System of Systems” (SoS), Air Traffic Management (ATM) in Europe will be improved by simultaneous and coordinated evolutions of its constituting systems. The SESAR Program aims at reaching an ambitious performance target (for 2020) by developing a large collection of “Operational Improvement Steps” (OIs). This development is achieved by more than 300 projects, themselves involving a numbe...

introduction: this research investigated the factors affecting implementation of activity based costing (abc) in operational budgeting of government agencies in isfahan province. methods: being an applied, cross-sectional and descriptive research, this study made use of a questionnaire for gathering data. governmental agencies that used provincial budget in isfahan province in 1388 comprised th...