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Under “Cap-and-Trade” conditions, a manufacturer is restricted in total carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emission through an initial allocation of emission quotes (EQ), but allowed to purchase emission quotes (i.e. commercialized permits for emitting CO2e) to satisfy additional needs via a trading market. Alternatively it can reduce its emission through self-purification (SP) to decrease its need...
In order to continue survive in today's competitive business environment, the key to success for many manufacturing companies is productivity. In response to the external pressure of global competition, many firms were compelled to implement and focus on productivity improvement. Numerous quality management approaches and tools such as Toyota Production System (TPS), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM),...
Periodic inventory review systems are generally preferred by organizations but the selection of right periodic inventory control policy is a challenge especially when demand is irregular. In this research, we classify irregular demand into erratic, slow moving and lumpy for a real industry case, and further develop three periodic review policies for performance evaluation. The simulation results show...
This paper employs a perspective of company behavior to analyze the China textile industry shift. In order to maximize profits, international buyers procure products in the global textile network. The sourcing strategy affects behaviors of enterprises in the supply chain. Questionnaire surveys and interviews are conducted to figure out the influence factors of the international buyers' sourcing strategy...
Product configurators have been widely applied in practice for delivering a right amount of product variety. Based on a survey, this study empirically investigates the implications of product configurator applications for companies' business activities. The purpose is to help companies better plan actions and make changes to embrace the implementation of product configurators with an understanding...
The recycling of materials is increasingly being used by the manufacturing industry. It is an attitude in response the growing charges that society has imposed the producer market. In the construction industry this demand is even more intense due to the large volumes of raw materials consumed for the execution of new buildings, the generation of waste during the construction process and finally the...
Owing to the limitations of the data collected, this study has applied window-DEA to estimate the managerial efficiency of medical device companies in Taiwan. Six publicly-traded medical device companies were recruited for this study over the 2005–2014 period. The results show that Excelsior, the most efficient company, has the potential to further improve its average efficiency by 14.5%, and SVBI,...
This paper presents a concept to anticipate deviations from the target process and thus inefficiencies within development projects by aid of predictive analytics. It is stated that predictive analytics approaches can be adapted to predict deviations in development projects, comparable to the anticipation of crimes. Deviations in terms of time, costs and quality are seen as a result of waste and therefore...
Engineering-To-Order (ETO) companies have to respond to increasing demands to provide highly customized and complex products with high quality at competitive prices. In order to respond to those challenges ETO companies have started to implement product configuration systems (PCS) to increase efficiency of the specification processes. As a result to complex products and processes in ETO companies,...
The airline catering industry is one of the most complex operational systems since caterers need to serve an average of one hundred thousand meals daily with the challenge of unavailability of exact order numbers right up until departure time. Typically, an optimally planned operation schedule is issued that seeks to utilize resources usage, e.g. manpower and machines. Due to the existence of schedule...
This paper presents a remote monitoring system based on the SCADA model (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition), specifically developed for automated production processes in a food company. The goals defined for this project were the monitoring of three production lines and six silos of raw materials, along with the indication / evaluation of three performance measures demanded by the company:...
Sustainable building construction has become essential in the construction industry with the aim of satisfying the present and future needs of construction stakeholders. Selection and procurement of appropriate materials that satisfies the principles of sustainability is paramount in construction. To this end, the traditional method of materials procurement has been found to be inefficient considering...
It is impossible to imagine the modern world without considering the discovery of Oil in the Middle East, which dates back to the beginning of the twentieth century. Recent Oil and Gas discoveries in Lebanese Basin in addition to the promising studies of its onshore have opened the door to Lebanon to enter the club of Oil states. In fact, according to official reports [1] “the current estimate, under...
Scale Deposition in pipelines is becoming a major concern to oil companies. The accumulations of mineral salts, if not detected and treated, can cause failure of the sensors and reduction of oil production which eventually affect well integrity. In this paper, we present three different methods for the detection of scale deposition using light sensing technique. We have successfully, under laboratory...
Modern IT companies are experiencing high employee fluctuations during last years which cause lots of financial costs due to an initial adaptation periods for new employees. Considering mainly fresh graduate employees and employees which don't have enough initial knowledge to perform according various internal rules, causes their disorientation in the company processes and thus slower their professional...
Organizations currently use whole range of environmental management tools. All the tools used by environmental policy arose from the voluntary internal initiatives of business entities and organizations. Today, these tools affect production of products and their market position in a complex way. Theoretical background of various environmental management tools is contained in the relevant standards...
Currently, the electricity demand is exponentially increasing due to the population growth. Therefore, the demand side management (DSM) is becoming unavoidable especially with the increasing use of renewable energy sources. One of the most known tactics of DSM is the use pricing strategies to threaten users to schedule their loads by controlling their own appliances. In this paper, a new model of...
In the last decades distributed generation became very popular in consequence of its low investment costs and easy installations. Nonetheless distributed generation and its requirements is not a literally well-known topic by the electricity regulators, distribution system operators and supply companies in Turkey. The aim of this paper is to be develop a criterion for connection of solar power plant...
Manufacturing costs and tolerance will affect the price and the quality of a product from every manufacturer company. Companies must produce high-quality products with low manufacturing costs in order to keep their products competitive in the market. However, it is difficult to produce a high-quality product with a low manufacturing cost. Companies have difficulties in determining the components to...
The Indonesian Government policy on Local Content Requirement (LCR) for the telecommunications equipment industry has an impact on the growth of Electronic Manufacturing Service (EMS) Companies in Indonesia. To improve the accuracy of information and efficiency of administration tasks, EMS Companies need an integrated system. It is well-known that Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is an integrated...
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