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Energy management is a crucial aspect to global sustainability. Multinational Manufacturing Corporations' (MMC's) utilise a large amount of energy, making energy optimisation a priority. The ability to evaluate MMC's total energy utilisation effectively and efficiently is a challenge. This research focuses on holistically modelling the business energy systems of MMC's by adopting a business process...
Globalization and highly competitive business environment are pushing many organizations to realize numerous productivity improvement efforts in order to continue to survive. To gain competitive advantage, manufacturing organizations are compelled to adopt productivity enhancement programs such as total quality management (TQM), total productive maintenance (TPM), lean manufacturing concept to achieve...
Due to the increase in environmental concerns and the environmental regulations enacted by governments, green supply chain has received more attention. In this paper, a mixed-integer linear programming model is presented for supply chain planning under emission trading scheme in which carbon footprints is considered in transportation, storage and production. Moreover, since machine upgrade would influence...
Resilience evaluation and enhancement has become a vital issue concerning the effectiveness of a current supply chain. This research paper proposes a multi-tier supplier selection policy for resilience enhancement as well as a customer-service-level oriented resilience measurement approach using on-time delivery rate as the indicator. A simple case study involving main supplier failure disturbance...
A methodology to ascertain the impact of disruption downstream of the point of disruption is proposed. Two parameters were defined to quantify the extent of disruption in any node in the Supply Chain (SC), including the end customer. A complex SC network consisting of two sub-nets is discussed as an illustration of the methodology. Two experiments were then conducted: (i) disruptions at a single,...
This paper focuses on the formation of supplier selection strategies that are used in an operational context. Because of the nature of the modern day environment, designing and forming good strategies is a difficult and laborious task. The goal of this paper is to showcase our work on implementing an algorithm that is capable of self-assembling a strategy without the need for explicit knowledge or...
The purpose of this paper is to design a tool for quantifying ergonomic level in organization and test its practical compatibility. The study has been undertaken to fill the research gap that no research has been attempted to develop an index for the evaluation of workspace in an ergonomic perspective of a manufacturing firm. An ergonomic quantification tool was designed by referring to a 15 criteria...
The application of lean manufacturing that is so standardized gives negative aspects for a company, such as the possibility of increased mental workload of employees. The purpose of this study is to observe the relation between lean manufacturing performance and employee' mental workload. This research is conducted at an Indonesian aircraft company in division Manufacturing (DPM), Component Assembly...
We present an approach of reliability data grouping by the hierarchical clustering method, which is useful for the analysis of reliability result for semiconductor devices. The purpose of this method is to effectively group a series reliability test result based on its characteristics in multiple dimensions. The Ward's method is well recommended to be used for distance definition. According to the...
Improving customer satisfaction is important in order to create a good relationship between a company and its customers which will give benefit to both sides. One way to accomplish it is by conducting quality improvement. Quality improvement has a strong relationship with the customer satisfaction, so it is an important issue in manufacturing. This paper discusses an optimization model to allocate...
As innovation becomes important and complex, researchers started to explore innovation process under the background of Big Data. Technology Delivery System (TDS), a systematic method dynamically showing innovation process, has caused the extensive concern worldwide. As an essential step to construct TDS better, this study aims to identify main delivery actors in TDS based on multi-data sources, then...
This paper investigates how innovation contributes to export growth by modelling the link between the stock of past patent applications and values of exported goods. Using a rich set of firm-level trade data from China (2000 to 2006) and patent application data, the present study finds that past patent applications are positively correlated with export growth in both static OLS and fixed effect panel...
The purpose of this paper is to identify areas throughout a product's lifecycle processes where complexity can be reduced by implementing a product configuration system (PCS). As discussed in the literature, several benefits are realized by using a PCS in terms of product and process standardization. This also leads to control and reduce of complexity both in products and processes. To this end, this...
Professional engineering service-delivering firms (PESDFs) that provide knowledge-intensive technical services to oil and gas (O&G) operators are under pressure to deliver their services/products in a more effective and efficient way, especially in the current oil crisis situation. While the objective of the firms is to deliver the highest value to their clients, waste is still embedded in the...
Reverse logistics is an activity associated with a product/service after the point of sale, the ultimate goal to optimize or make more efficient aftermarket activity. Enterprises that have implemented reverse logistics have been able to enhance consumer service and response times, minimize environmental influences by minimizing waste and enhance complete corporate citizenship. In this connection,...
Selection of potential supplier is a strategic decision taken by purchasing department which helps in ensuring a long term commitment between supplier and industry. Selection of supplier is a multi criteria decision making (MCDM) problem involving quantitative, qualitative, tangible and non tangible diverse criteria's. In this work a strategic frame work has been proposed which allows decision makers...
Most existing studies on production scheduling considered only one resource type, usually the machines. But in certain actual manufacturing environments, other resources, such as tools, operators, and so on, may become a scare resource for the short term production scheduling. Therefore, this study investigates the scheduling problem that simultaneously considers machines and their auxiliary tools...
Market trends of the last two decades showed a high demand for customer innovated products. The production of individualized batch-size-one products requires a production planning and control (PPC) paradigm shift. This paper therefore provides an insight into requirements for PPC of customer innovated products. Customer-specific order processing, an approach to time and capacity planning as well as...
Considering the effects of machine breakdown and preventative maintenance (PM)on production scheduling in flowshop manufacturing cells, this paper focuses on investigating the joint optimization problem of flowshop sequence-dependent manufacturing cell scheduling and PM. A joint model is proposed and it aims to find the optimal production sequence of job families and individual jobs within each family...
The design of façades insulating-envelopes based on rectangular configurable panels is addressed via guillotine cuts. This design is treated as a two-dimensional orthogonal packing problem which considers the specific geometry and structure of each facade. Among the various packing algorithms dedicated to this particular design problem, the cutting approach is the most appropriated to design aesthetic...
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