This paper deals with the improvement of productivity of a multi product manufacturing industry. The authors identified the obstacles which make the improvement in the productivity of a Manufacturing Industry as infeasible. The authors instructed some suggestions with IE tools and techniques for removing those obstacles. Keywords— Productivity, Batch production, Work sampling, Time study, Cause...

Robots have received a great deal of publicity recently. The movie “Star Wars” and several television series such as “The Six Million Dollar Man” and “The Bionic Woman” have raised the consciousness of the public to the subject of robots. The enormous influx of foreign cars manufactured in part by robots has aroused awareness of the press and many politicians to the fact that robots can have a ...

Industrial Automation is a broad field among other engineering disciplines. The major activities of Automation stem from manufacturing industries and include cycle time improvement, productivity improvement, cost reduction, efficiency improvement, materials handling, analyze and improve the work methods, to eliminate waste and proper allocation and utilization of resources. Automation in a manu...

Perspectives on Productivity Improvement The productivity improvement movement has a long history having had its beginnings with the work simplification practices advocated by F.W. Taylor under the famous ‘scientific management principles’. Since then there has been an increasing attention on evolving various approaches and strategies to enhance productivity, and more particularly labour produc...

The paper analyses the topic of service system productivity and profitability. Main focus of the research is self-service area, namely, the increase of ATM network productivity. Paper presents performance evaluation of self-service systems and improvement model for its increasing profitability. This model combines internal and external quality criteria and provides detailed understanding of the...

Extensive government control over industrial and service sectors show it could not overcome the increasing misuse of public resources, raisins debts, lack of improvement in operation efficiency and mismanagement. Numerous productivity programs could be a key to improve performances. In present article a case of productivity program in one of State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) namely Isfahan Steel M...

in this study, the role of information technology in increasing the productivity of fars regional electric company has been reviewed.so, five roles of information technology have been selected and managers and expert’s perspective has been measured about them. for this purpose, a questionnaire has been prepared about productivity and information technology. the samples consists of 140 managers ...