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The analysis of how value is created is often associated with the value chain, a framework that aligns resources and activities into deliveries. However, it is questionable whether the value chain logic is applicable to all firms. As a consequence, the value shop model has been suggested to meet the critique of the chain logic. This article addresses the topic of value creation logics and value configurations...
Recently, researchers on organization theory and behavior were challenged by the introduction of cognitive machines in the list of the organization’s participants. Researchers in this field advocated that cognitive machines contribute to improve cognitive abilities in the organization by extending people’s rationality and decision-making capacity and by reducing intra-individual and group dysfunctional...
In today's competitive world, having an effective business intelligent (BI) system for monitoring and evaluation of industrial and product oriented organizations is vital. A perfect BI must help managers not only to speed up his decision making process; but also to increase quality of their decision. But how? One of the main specifications of an effective BI system is providing managers by correct...
Since the industrial revolution, technology has been changing at a rapid pace. In the twenty-first century globalization has created enormous pressure on both the corporate and public sector in terms of market reform and privatization, which have resulted in short to medium term contracting in engineering and management. This paper attempts to define the role of Engineering Management (EM) in Gulf...
Enterprises cluster is posing great competence as well as facing much risk. By subdividing the type of cluster, networked small and medium-sized enterprises cluster is chosen as target; by analyzing the primary sources of risk, an index system for evaluating the risk is built up; and on the basis of gray-fuzzy theory, the synthetic risk evaluating model is given in this paper. An actual application...
Manufacturers have been exploring innovative strategies to achieve and sustain their competitive advantages by facing a new era of intensive global competition. Such a strategy is supply chain management (SCM), which has gained a tremendous amount of attention from both researchers and practitioners since the last decade. Supply chain management (SCM) has been considered as the most popular operations...
Exploration of implicit information of customers is a vital task for industrial enterprises and organizations. Text and data mining are two indispensable means to accomplish above task. This paper presents a hybrid mining system, EIREx, which processes unstructured (text documents) and structured (data tables from databases) information as a whole source. The construction of EIREx is inspired by a...
Learning is a critical support mechanism for industrial and academic organizations to enhance the skills of employees and students and, consequently, the overall competitiveness in the new economy. The remarkable velocity and volatility of modern knowledge require novel learning methods offering additional features as efficiency, task relevance and personalization. Our proposal attempts to deal with...
e-Learning is a critical support mechanism for industrial and academic organizations to enhance the skills of employees and students and, consequently, the overall competitiveness in the new economy. The remarkable velocity and volatility of modern knowledge require novel learning methods offering additional features as efficiency, task relevance and personalization. The main aim of adaptive eLearning...
Risk analysis is a process dedicated to describe scenarios leading to hazards and potential accidents on an industrial facility. In order to realize a risk analysis, experts refer to different resources (hazard studies, expertise, etc.) which are often difficult to exploit because they are not sufficiently structured and formalized. This paper presents an ongoing project that aims to develop an industrial...
A spare optimization model for systems with components in series where the failure time of components follow any general distribution is presented. The availability of the system at any time is obtained through renewal process theory. The objective of the optimization problem is to maximize the availability of the system satisfying constraints on cost and volume. Genetic algorithms are used to find...
Customer satisfaction measurement is an important part of marketing research in industrial organizations since it is the key to formulating customer value strategies and to continuously improving implementation of these strategies. Traditional techniques for modeling the network such as partial least squares (PLS) lack the capability of fitting the nonlinear and asymmetric relationships. This article...
Like many industrial organizations, the US Navy is moving away from an era of hydraulic, pneumatic and mechanical devices to an era dominated by electromechanical devices and all-electric controls. The Navy is also moving to replace many traditional weapon systems (all of which are chemical and thermodynamic in nature) with directed energy and electric weapons. For these applications there are few,...
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