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Implementing sustainability practices has become a requirement to be able to operate in several markets since the legal requirements are increasing and society (as well as customers) values sustainability behaviors more.
Maintenance impacts on environmental, economical and social performances of a product are often overlooked or underestimated. Especially for durable goods, maintenance should positively influence the product sustainability profile extending its lifespan, but, negatively, it also adds operations and materials usage. Available sustainability (mostly environmental) assessment tools either do not consider...
Driven by market trends towards highly-personalised products, the manufacturing industry is facing a variety of challenges that require systems to be adaptive, robust, resilient, and responsive. Collective adaptive systems have the potential to provide solutions to a wide variety of these problems. This paper has two main aims: to highlight shared problems between industry and the collective adaptive...
With the advent of smart grids, the volume of data from metering and information about consumers to be storaged and analysed by the distribution companies will be very large, mainly due to the use of advanced metering infrastructure and digital meters with automatic readers. This new scenario has stimulated these companies to develop intelligent computing systems which can handle data and information...
Flexibility and adaptability are major challenges for modern production systems. To realize them integration approaches are required. Within this paper a literature survey on integration approaches and integration approach types is described based on an attempt towards a detailed characterization of both. It is intended to enable an informed decision for research and development directions towards...
This study analyzes the success of the implementation of business strategies in Polish manufacturing enterprises. It focuses on the use of motivators for knowledge workers and is based on a survey and from data obtained from 119 Polish manufacturing enterprises. In this study, the effect of the use of motivators in a manufacturing company is investigated via a simulation of a model using the Group...
The South Africa transport sector is a major user of energy, in particular liquid fossil fuels that contribute to Green House Gas emissions. South Africa is committed to developing a Green Economy, but South Africa has significant challenges that will need to be overcome to realise Green Economy development opportunities. Population growth, and the rapid urbanisation and development, has resulted...
During the past decades, it has been gradually recognised that science, technology and innovation (STI) can provide solution to macro level science and technology (S&T) problems. To foster STI that enables socioeconomic growth, it is widely regarded as necessary means to build institutional capacity for optimising governance of STI. Therefore, many countries seek to integrate STI policies as part...
Flexibility and adaptability of production systems are still some of the most discussed characteristics of production systems within the traditional manufacturing industry. Because of increasing complexity and dynamics within the corporate environment, some approaches to optimize these traditional characteristics are no longer sufficient to achieve competitive advantages. The ongoing paradigm shift...
The mechatronics approach has been around for decades, but many companies still struggle realising the business potential inherent in successful combination, or even integration of enabling technologies in systems for mechanical, computing, metrology, and control topics. And the challenges are not only linked to combining systems, but also to realise them as products and create business value doing...
The development and growth of industries in the developing and newly industrialized countries, such as Taiwan and South Korea, has been solely emphasizing on cost-leadership strategy. Although such capital-intensive, volume-driven and cost-down strategies have been successful measured by industrial and economic growth, but the amounts of value created and captured in global value chain and innovation...
In Japan, manufacturers running a single business account for a high percentage of the sales of precision machinery and fine chemicals. There are numerous domain-specialized high-tech manufacturers who focus on a single business as their main field of technological expertise. Such organizations are constantly exposed to the risk of diminishing market opportunities for their business due to the emergence...
Technological competences are the success-determining factors for the competitiveness of every technology-oriented company. Identifying, fostering and exploiting technological competences are amongst the crucial activities within technology management in order to strengthen the market position of a company in the long term. New market opportunities for future company growth have to be identified and...
Additive manufacturing technologies have gained prominence in the recent past, and are increasingly entering the mainstream. Extant research on these technologies is typically focused on the mechanics, and user analysis is largely theoretical. Minimal applied research exists regarding why these technologies transform underlying business models, and how users (both business and consumer) approach them...
As the emerging nations add influence to the state of global economy, the new demand in air logistics is expected to catapult the increase in aircraft production, introducing a new horizon for potential suppliers to enter into the supply chain regime. This scenario may capture the attention not only from the industry institutions, but also from the public entities, that are in interest of plotting...
This paper presents a dynamic model that shows the evolving patterns of relationships between mother companies and their foreign subsidiaries. Specifically, this paper shows four different types of evolution between mother companies and their subsidiaries: (1) mutual dependence (early stage), (2) adaptation to local needs (intermediate stage), (3) mutual dependence (later stage), and (4) global expansion...
Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) is an integral part of the Indian industrial sector. The distinctive features of MSMEs are less capital investment and high labour absorption which has created unprecedented importance to this sector. As per the Development Commissioner of MSME, the sector has the credit of being the second highest in employment in India, which stands next to agricultural...
The South African automotive industry is the third largest sector in the national economy, This industry employs a significant number of people and it accounts for about 7.6% of the country's GDP. It operates in a highly competitive and dynamic environment that is growing at a tremendous rate due to international competition and changing demands of the customers. Furthermore, new competitors are countinuously...
The supplier selection process of a company depends on numerous criteria which can have differing importance factors. Solving this kind of multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problem is essential for the long-term strategy of a company. While this problem is examined numerous times throughout the years, the consideration of involving economic, social and environmental factors, i.e. sustainability...
The German working committee for “Industrie 4.0” identified the horizontal integration throughout value networks and the vertical integration of networked manufacturing systems as key issues in the context of smart factories. For this purpose we aim for a universal model-driven industrial engineering framework spanning over production chains and value networks. Thereby, we build up on the Resource...
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