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The paper presents a case study of Internet of Things (IoT) technology application and its disruptive nature on the business ecosystem. The disruptive nature of changes is analyzed with identification of changes incurred to the business ecosystem as IoT is introduced to the marketplace. The results of a case analysis exemplify how business ecosystems are changing due to opportunities provided by IoT.
This paper considers a remanufacturing inventory system with multiple returns, and derives the optimal policies for its inventory replenishment. To adapt more generic industry applications, dynamic demands and returns are incorporated into the remanufacturing inventory system. The results show that the optimal policies are not independent among classes under certain state conditions. In addition,...
Despite of its importance in the context of corporate portfolio management (CPM), business selection in multi business unit Arms is still among ambiguous problems because of its sophisticated nature in which the effective decision rules are different from one firm, industry or country to another. Therefore this article tries to address the business selection problem in corporations by applying a two...
Implementing lean production control systems can pose difficulties at several levels. To overcome incomplete implementation, e.g., caused by unclear description of control structures in an organization, this paper presents an approach for analyzing lean implementations that uses functional abstraction of the control system combined with the Viable System Model (ViSM1) from Management Cybernetics....
This article addresses the multi-objective optimization in system engineering project planning. At the earliest steps of a system engineering process, many choices can be done taking into account experience feedback. An approach that permits to a decision maker to perform the selection of scenarios during a project is presented. The objectives to optimize are the total cost of the project, its total...
Understanding, the spread of infectious diseases is an important key to efficiently control them. In this study, a susceptible-exposed-infectious-quarantined-recovered (SEIQR) model incorporated with adynamic social network is proposed to investigate the disease transmission dynamics in the human population and how the number of individual's neighbor (degree of a node), and the longest distance between...
Make-or-buy decisions taken during ‘product design and engineering’ often happen based on incomplete and inaccurate information but have tremendous effects on the manufacturing function; this is an under-researched topic. Based on three cases in India, the study examines the processes and decision-making for make-or-buy during new product development from three theoretical perspectives: Transaction...
The study of practices for Strategic Capacity Management at five Malaysian companies and four Scottish companies shows that the Malaysian manufacturing managers acted more reactive due to pressures by sales and processing orders, whereas the Scottish managers were implementing a manufacturing strategy more ‘independently’. Problems with suppliers, albeit sometimes caused by outsourcing, feature high...
We analyze a two buyer-one supplier setting. The buyers first simultaneously invest in in-house capacity with the knowledge of the demand distribution only. The demand is then realized after the investments are made. If the demand exceeds the invested capacity then, the balance requirement is sourced by the buyers from a common supplier. The supplier has the option to sell its capacity to an alternate...
In this article the assessment of work organization method (AWO) developed by Frieling et al. was used to describe and compare different settings under which teamwork occurs in a production plant of a major German automobile manufacturer. The aim was to And significant differences within several shop-floor areas at. The original AWO consists of 43 items operationalized in six categories: organizational...
The objective of this paper is to introduce the concept of real time collaboration for inventory distribution management in supply chains using Google spreadsheet. The capability of Google spreadsheet to use for a complex structure of supply chain is demonstrated using simulation for inventory distribution management. To demonstrate the collaboration capabilities for inventory distribution management,...
Research in the challenging field of industrial engineering and engineering management often needs the expertise from more than one discipline. Therefore interdisciplinary research has taken on continuously greater significance. Over the last years various research clusters — such as cluster of excellence — were initiated in the course of the German excellence initiative. Thereby researchers with...
The effects of globalization have caused a continuous increase of competition intensity within the tool and die industry. Thus European tool shops have access to emerging markets but in the same time they have to face new competitors with lower factor costs. Furthermore customer requirements have changed. New customer requirements lead to derivatization and decreasing product lifecycles. The demographic...
In this paper, a hybrid particle swarm optimization (PSO)-tabu search (TS) approach is proposed for solving the proportionate multiprocessor open shop scheduling problem (PMOSP) with the objective of minimizing the makespan. The PSO part of the proposed approach is used for randomly searching the machine selection decisions, while the TS part conducts local improvements for the routing and sequencing...
Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Window (VRPTW) has demonstrated an excessive application in postal service network design. In this paper we elaborate on how VRPTW modelling approach can benefit both firm and contractors. The business objective is to facilitate the process of retendering the contracts. Accordingly, the novel modeling approach has been developed in order to improve the practicality...
In this paper a supply chain network is designed considering multiple objectives. The first objective contains total establishment and transportation costs as well as previous works while facilities depreciation costs are considered in the network. In the second objective customer satisfaction is considered which include the All rate and the delivered products quality. Then an epsilon-constraint approach...
Although many models of team performance acknowledge the importance of task characteristics and their effects on team outcome, task characteristics have often been neglected in empirical research. Instead, the focus has been on variables regarding internal team processes such as coherence, motivation or coordination and team composition variables. In this paper the effects of task characteristics...
Organizations must improve or at least maintain the quality of their products to be competitive in today's market. Thus, developing a new approach which could utilize more information from the production process has become an inevitable quality improvement program for each organization. In current study, a fuzzy mean and range control charts were developed to monitor the production process. Fuzzy...
With the increasing demand for energy over recent decades, the Arctic region has become an interesting area for future exploration and development. The Arctic region has a harsh and sensitive environment at a remote location. Hence, effective handling and management of waste is becoming essential to ensure fulfillment of health, safety, environmental, and quality requirements in the Barents Sea. In...
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