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The growth of micro, small and medium enterprises of fashion industry in Bandung is very rapidly and thus the industry has to face the growing competitiveness challenge. The implementation of ERP is considered to be a strategy to support sales growth, increase management ability, enhance marketing network and also strengthen the company competitiveness. In order to be effectively implemented to achieve...
Taiwanese memory packaging and testing factories include Powertech, ChipMOS, ASE, SPIL, Walton and FATC. The global three first tier giants, Samsung Electronics, Hynix and Micron, have predicted that the DRAM market in 2014 will be more stable. With the three-giant monopolization taking shape, the strategic alliance and corresponding excess profits of back-end packaging factories are expected to be...
This paper reports on some salient characteristics of how a large (21-foot wide) whiteboard wall mediates and facilitates the work of a software development team. While most research on whiteboards report on their use in design conversations, our data show this large whiteboard wall fulfilling 59 different uses over a 17 month period. This paper describes this whiteboard wall, categorizes the uses,...
Media coverage and public perception of topics such as child labor, exploitation of workers, and ecological malpractice have risen considerably over the last years. A rising number of executives therefore consider sustainability issues both in their companies and in companies' supply chains. However, a holistic approach towards sustainability requires management control (also referred to as management...
Over 30 years, our R&D division produces new business through technology & skills. This presentation explores some recent method which creates new business and execution examples in Japan's company. We call this “Customer Value Method” which changes technology into customer value & new business. The feature of “Customer Value Method” consists of the visible planning process which engineers...
Recently, modularization has progressed, particularly in the electronics industry and is receiving considerable attention. This development of modularization can be explained using the business architecture concept. Based on architecture-based strategies that add some perspectives from organizational capability and the ability development environment to this concept, many industrial studies have been...
Classical theory “Lotka's Law” has been proven in many fields that the number of persons who contribute n outputs is about 1/nα of those who contribute one output, where the exponent α is a parameter about 2 to 3 in the most cases reported previously. Our analysis on patent productivity of inventors in Japan shows different characteristics from the results of previous studies on US and European firms...
In plant construction business engineering has an outstanding influence on project success. Thereby, a plant is usually provided by a general contractor as turnkey solution. However, to win these projects, the general contractor is depending on external engineering service providers. The reasons are e.g. missing expertise in non-core-competence activities, lack of staff or too high costs of internal...
This article discusses experiences from case studies conducted at product developing departments in four multinational companies. All organizations are outstanding product developing companies with a long and successful historical background within product development. Therefore it is interesting to understand how these companies deal with risks in their product development processes. The aim of the...
The paper details changes made to the assessment methods employed on two modules delivered on six MSc programmes in Engineering. The assessment altered from all coursework to a combination of a coursework and examination to meet Professional Body requirements. Further, the paper will highlight how student feedback was sought on the new assessment approach and how this feedback led to developments...
The maintenance of public lightning equipments is an important and frequent activity of power utility company in Brazil. This service is usually executed using a truck with aerial bucket or a manual ladder. Despite the bucket truck being consolidated as a versatile device for several tasks across the electricity network, it still presents disadvantages such as the difficult on using it in urban areas...
The aim of this paper is to show the concept of Cyber Physical Logistics Systems (CPLS). The individual parts are based on already existing solutions, either industrial products or research demonstrators both based on the concept of the Internet of Things. After listing new requirements and opportunities of these CPLS and the basic technology layers, a real-world scenario is used to illustrate the...
In this paper, the recent two years of failure analysis cases of our laboratory are screened and some of them are displayed, they are mostly selected with a relation to the influence of temperature and humidity. To illustrate the typical and common failure phenomenon, plastic packaging products are focused. The main failure mode of these failed products include package delaminations, solder abnormality,...
Material flow cost accounting (MFCA) is an effective environment management tool which can visualize any waste so as to reduce the waste in the production process. However, cost allocation method of material flow cost accounting adopted in Japan is a little inaccurate and cumbersome for Chinese accountant. This study developed the modified MFCA which divided system and energy cost into those for waste...
This paper takes a practical case study approach to demonstrate the genetic algorithm (GA)'s ability to help purchasing manager in making a better decision on procurement of products or materials. The GA implemented in the supplier selection function aims to allow purchasing managers to get better decisions in choosing the appropriate suppliers by choosing the appropriate products under various contextual...
Financial report readability is an important factor influencing the decision usefulness of accounting report, which has become a common concern problem of both accounting theory and practice. For study on financial report readability, it is gradually mature in foreign countries, but in China, due to the limited measurement method of readability and other factors, the study on financial report readability...
This paper presents an extension of the two-stage transportation planning problem for a large scale hydropower construction project where bi-level programming and a balance of the satisfactory degree between decision makers are considered. For solving the complex and non-linear bilevel programming model, an interactive fuzzy programming technique and a particle swarm optimization with passive congregation...
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