One of the most important issues in the plant layout design especially in mass production organizations with high inter-plant logistics is‘material flow and inter-plant traffic analysis and its effects on the production capabilities or pauses in production lines. In this paper the inter-plant traffic analysis issue on the basis of single channel queue model (M/M/1) is analyzed in a carmaker c...

green plants have emerged as ideal platforms for production of recombinant vaccine during recent decades. various antigens relating to a large number of animal and human diseases have been studied in different plant species for production of recombinant vaccines. despite the unique advantages of plant systems as green factories for production of recombinant vaccines, there are some major hurdle...

What is the role of information technology (IT) in enabling the outsourcing of manufacturing plant production processes? Do plant strategies influence production outsourcing? Does production process outsourcing influence plant performance? This research addresses these questions by investigating the role of IT and plant strategies as antecedents of production outsourcing, and evaluating the imp...