... systems Steel industry Costing Problem identification. The first step in developing any system is to identify the problem that needs to be addressed and why it needs to be addressed. In terms of knowledge sources only one type was used here. The opinions of experts and target users...

...Nicolas Bacon; Paul Blyton This article explores the industrial relations factors associated with the adoption of teamworking and allied new working practices. A survey of trade union representatives in the UK steel industry reveals evidence that managers are less likely to introduce teamworking...

... Limited 1999 Decision making Flexibility Operations management Production management Steel industry One of the dominant themes in the manufacturing literature this decade has been that of managing operations under conditions of increasing change (Kidd, 1994; Upton, 1994; Goldman...

... UP Limited 1997 Integrated manufacturing systems Linear programming Models Steel industry The ever increasing competitiveness of the world market is forcing a large number of manufacturing companies to optimize their operations to win business. Optimal production planning is one...

... Profitability Steel industry The credit for organizational performance is due to its employees,remarks the chairman of every corporate house. In fact, the human resource (HR) is the prime mover of an organization. Being the most fundamental of all available resources, HR is the only self‐generating...

... and at the higher level a multi‐objective dynamic program is used to derive an optimum aggregate production plan and provide optimal resource allocation. © MCB UP Limited 1992 India Production planning Steel industry Hierarchical control Resource management A Hierarchical Production Planning...