modern manufacturing is under ever increasing pressure to develop solutions for highly complextasks. in order to maintain the business survival in a highly competitive environment, it is vital toobtain customer satisfaction, which requires developing products with shorter lifecycles and higherquality meanwhile to reduce the production costs. in order to achieve such objectives a paradigmhas bee...

this paper examines the relation between emotional intelligenceand work-family conflict in manufacturing environment. a questionnairesurvey was carried out to explore this relation at carpet factoriesin kashan, iran. a 28-item questionnaire which consist of emotionalintelligence and work-family conflict parts was carried out to investigatethe relation between these variables. some basic socio-d...

cellular manufacturing system (cms) is highly important in modern manufacturing methods. given the ever increasing market competition in terms of time and cost of manufacturing, we need models to decrease the cost and time of manufacturing. in this study, cms is considered in condition of dynamic demand in each period. the model is developed for facing dynamic demand that increases the cost of ...

the main objective of this study is to investigate the production factors productivity in large manufacturing sub-sectors. for this purpose, using statistical data for period 1972-2004, we have tried to study and analyze the trend and level of production factors productivity (partial and total productivity) in each sub-sectors classified according to isic two digits code. the average and margin...

during the past two decades business and manufacturing have observed significant and radical changes. companies have used automation in the manufacturing, in order to improve quality and competency. it was expected that along with these changes, management accounting systems, which focus on monitoring and analyzing management decisions, should adapt with and encourage the changes. many authors ...

in recent years, many manufacturing industries for promoting their efficiency have tended to use the automatic manufacturing systems. expanding automatic systems and to increase their complexity are representing the necessity of studying a proper functional quality and using reliable equipment in such systems more than ever. in this direction, the technique of fault tree analysis (fta), along w...

abstract innovation to help organizations cope with the dynamic markets turbulence in the external environment and can achieve long-term goals. one of the most initiators of innovation, learning. the main aim of this study is to examine the effect of the organizational learning on innovation performance. accordingly, the study population is all supervisors and employees of manufacturing and ind...

this paper presented a mixed integer programming for integrated scheduling and process planning. the presented process plan included some orders with precedence relations similar to multiple traveling salesman problem (mtsp), which was categorized as an np-hard problem. these types of problems are also called advanced planning because of simultaneously determining the appropriate sequence and m...