... management Industrial performance Small enterprise Setup times Single Minute Exchange of Die Achieving “manufacturing excellence” is essential for survival and economic growth of any country in this age of globalization. The “industrial age” of the last century has given way to the “information...

... usually result in an information overload beyond the perception of increased complexity of the process by the customer (Franke and Piller, 2003 ; Chang and Chen, 2009). Decision support systems Industrial performance Product design To better meet the increasing expectations of customer...

... Operations management Industrial performance Plastic recycling is the process of recovering scrap or waste plastic and reprocessing the material into useful products, sometimes ones that are completely different in form from their original state. Since plastic is not normally biodegradable...

... management Agility Lean production Industrial performance Lean Green Agile Index Automotive industry Resilient The increased pressure from community and environmentally conscious consumers has lead to rigorous environmental regulations, forcing companies to integrate environmental and social...

... measurement Industrial performance Benchmarking The consistent pressure on industries from varied sources to integrate business operations and natural environment has been significant over the years and firms are increasingly adopting different measures at management and operational level to reduce...

... Operations management Lean Industrial performance Company performance Product development process The product development process (PDP) is one of the main distinctions available to companies that are seeking to gain position in an environment in which the velocity with which products...

...; port ranges; routes or trades; and chains. In this paper, we focus on competition between port undertakings. Dr Bart Wiegmans can be contacted at: b.wiegmans@tudelft.nl © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Competitiveness Industrial performance Data Envelopment Analysis...

... management Continuous improvement Manufacturing Manufacturing strategy Analytical hierarchy process Industrial performance Kaizen (Kai – do, change, Zen – well) is a kind of thinking and management, it is a philosophy being used not only in management field but also in the everyday life in Japan...

... Limited 2009 Benchmarking Industrial performance Information management Logistics Supply chain management Sweden The core of RFID technology is making identification and data capture more efficient, and it offers some unique benefits over other types of identification technologies...

... of suitable measures. In this section we present the empirical data, the self‐organizing map technique, and the training of our maps. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Financial performance Industrial performance Corporate governance Paper industry Neural nets Financial...