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This article focuses on the business analytics and data analysis by application of the advanced tools, technologies and methods of Business Intelligence (BI). These tools enable companies to gain competitive advantage and improve their processes. We had data from the biggest steel factory in Slovakia. In papers [1], [2] we worked with BI solutions and there was request that all reports have to be...
The article examines the development of digital manufacturing production, in particular the system for monitoring the work of CNC equipment, CNC equipment circuits and other automated manufacturing equipment, as well as systems of monitoring and resource suppy for the implementation of production tasks and production plan of the digital manufacturing production. The developed system has the following...
This paper attempts to provide a conceptual framework on factors that affect the purchasing performance of Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) companies'. Till date purchasing performance models have been published for manufacturing firms, this study fills the gap by investigating the factors that constitute Purchasing Performance of an EPC. To accomplish present research objective, an...
This paper focuses on the use of inventory models to control the material flow and purchased inventory items in manufacturing companies. The objectives of this paper are to assess the effects of demand uncertainty on inventory management and to evaluate the difference on uncertain demand subject to demand controls as determined and the models used. Three inventory management models are studied; 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,...
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...
Supplier Selection is a problem that supply chain managers have been facing for many years. Selecting the appropriate suppliers is no longer as simple as choosing only based on the price they offer. There are many criteria, which can be either quantitative or qualitative, to be considered. There is thus a need for an approach that can handle these criteria. Besides, as supply chains are becoming more...
Production lines have various components, from workers to loads and machines, each of which can influence the productivity of the entire system either directly or indirectly. One of the most vulnerable parts of an assembly line is the human element. Studies have been conducted on the methods to improve assembly line productivity, both from a worker's ergonomic perspective and from a system simulation...
For many years, the remanufacturing system has been a very popular and potential topic to both scholars and practitioners. The increasing demand of products, particularly in the electronics and automobile industry and conflicting depletion of resources has become a major challenge for the electronics and automotive remanufacturing stakeholders. The increasing global need for these electronics and...
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...
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...
Nowadays, manufacturing companies are faced with the challenge of meeting heterogeneous customer requirements in short product life cycles with a variety of product functions. So far, some of the functional requirements remain unknown until late stages of the product development. This is mainly caused by an increasing market dynamic in combination with the continuously changing customer expectations...
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...
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...
For modern industry, data generated by machines and devices, product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, production planning systems or quality and inventory management systems has reached a volume of more than a thousand Exabyte annually and is expected to increase in the next years. This has led to the need of “Big Data” which originally referred to the huge flood of data, has extended the scope...
Many manufacturing companies are experiencing more and more wider variation in market growth and customer demand. Studies have been conducted over the years to improve the accuracy of the manufacturing forecast. However, the theoretical forecast models so far haven't achieved much success and the gaps between forecast and actual demand are still wide that a buffer has to be built up especially for...
In 2011, the 4th industrial revolution started. Industry 4.0 is a trend in this industrial area which affect the production lines as well. In this paper, we show eight selected case studies which illustrate the different heterogonous systems which are used in Hungarian factories to support its production. A case-study is chosen in which image processing tools are applied in the operation of a furniture...
Systems engineering (SE) combined with Strategic Management must play crucial roles in planning of producing valued products in Armored Vehicle Manufacturers (AVMs) in the developing countries, UAE and Saudi Arabia in particular. However, owners of those AVMs have been reluctant to use such managerial disciplines and entirely have rested on their entrepreneur's characteristics to manage their small...
In this paper we will report our development of digital manufacturing toolbox which supports small and medium-sized enterprises in their cognitive and practical production development processes. The toolbox — or a set of tools — is part of a more extensive toolbox of supports for companies, which is developed as an essential part of the TARGET — Making Regional Manufacturing Globally Competitive and...
Manufacturing in all sectors has undergone dramatic changes as a result of globalization and the introduction of IOT. Globalization and IOT have brought significant challenges, as well as opportunities to the supply chain of large enterprises (for example Ericson, Alcatel, and HP). There has been an infrastructure change from a single integrated process performed within the boundaries of the traditional...
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