new product development (npd) is described in the literature as the transformation of a market opportunity into a product available for sale. in the automotive industry, within the context of iso/ts16949:2002 (the automotive quality management system international standard),  these related to the product realization process (prp) which consists of three main phases such as planning, implementat...

Although researchers have considered process integration in some detail, describing it using expressions such as tight coordination among activities, standardization and tight coupling, operating as a whole, etc., we lack an operational measure. Aubert, Vandenbosch and Mignerat (2003) proposed a formal definition of process integration as the sum of efforts expended by the receiving activities ...

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Medical operation planning is a substantial element of hospital management. It is characterized by high complexity, which is caused by the uncertainty between the offered capacity and the true demand. As emergency cases occur the planning requirements will change. Therefore, the use of a dialog-based system is preferred against fully manual or fully automated systems, because of the inability o...

Over the past several decades a number of organizations have made significant progress in evolving highperformance production systems. Anecdotal observations of successful systems typically provide the basis for organizational initiatives that practitioners attempt to copy and transplant into other organizations, sometimes resulting in successful applications and sometime in expensive failures....