This paper analyses the geographical concentration of 32 manufacturing sectors over the 1972-1996 period, based on annual employment and export data for 13 European countries. Concentration has increased continuously over the sample period in employment terms, while remaining roughly unchanged in export terms. On average, increases in concentration were stronger prior to the launch of the Singl...

The extent of band s-convergence of average labor productivity across manufacturing industries in 18 OECD countries over the period 1972–1992 shows large inter-industry differences. One reason for these differences is knowledge and capital barriers preventing the occurrence of catch-up. We find the level of average labor productivity, as a proxy for these barriers, is correlated with the extent...

This study attempts to address the impact of R&D on manufacturing performance of labor intensive industries. Convenience sampling method has been used to conduct this research. Two categories of industries such as R&D and Non R&D industries have been chosen to perform this study. Inputs–outputs data of manufacturing operations of sample industries have been analyzed by using standard statistica...

Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, manufacturing industries have primarily been responsible for adverse effects on the environment caused by pollutants such as carbon dioxide. Therefore, there has been tremendous pressure for these industries to be globally competitive within the range of environmental regulations and laws, which has been greatly increased and reinforced these da...

Although experimentation is a frequent activity of engineers, they usually use primitive strategies to carry on their experiments. A survey identifies the needs of using an efficient and practical technique for the experimentation. Although Six Sigma improvement initiative emphasized the use of Design of Experiments (DoE) for experimentation, engineers still consider it a difficult technique to...

The manufacturing industry offers a huge range of opportunities and challenges for exploiting semantic web technologies. Collating heterogeneous data into semantic knowledge repositories can provide immense benefits to companies, however the power of such knowledge can only be realised if end users are provided visual means to explore and analyse their datasets in a flexible and efficient way. ...

India is a developing country and laying emphasis on the infrastructure growth focusing development of telecommunications, airlines, airports, ports, highways, railways, housing, power, motor vehicles, banking, manufacturing others. The impact seen environment in form air pollution, greenhouse gases emission, water land noise waste generation its management, depletion natural resources, loss bi...

The mam concern of this paper is with longer term differences among individual manufacturing industries in the growth of labour productivity and how such differences are associated with relative movements in output, labour earnings, unit costs and prices Certain relationships between the movements of these variables m Irish manufacturing industries will be examined and the results compared with...