...Ryspek Usubamatov; Abdul Rahman Riza; Muhamad Nasir Murad Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study and perform a system analysis of car assembly line processes, to show productivity losses and their causes, and to derive a mathematical model of the productivity rate of the assembly line...

... Productivity rate Total factor productivity Learning‐by‐exporting Self‐selection The purpose of this study is threefold: first, to investigate whether firms that export are more productive than non‐exporting firms; second, to study the causal relation between export participation and productivity...

... be contacted at: ctsu@mx.nthu.edu.tw © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Semiconductors Hoshin kanri Productivity rate Lean production Manufacturing industries EIDPER is an extension model of the hoshin kanri planning process, which is used as the vehicle for hoshin...

... Shopfloor Productivity rate Aircraft industry The industrial globalization process has important consequences for the supply chain decisions with respect to the preferred location of the production activities. Operations managers needed to broaden their scope to be able to make the complex...

... Manufacturing systems Productivity rate The main purpose of the performed case study is to show the improvement of a manufacturing system when automatic data collection is combined with DES. The findings indicate that the potential is considerable if the automatic data collection system works...

... Manufacturing systems Production management Productivity rate This paper presents a case study of the successful application of the theory of constraints (TOC), a productivity improvement tool proposed and developed by Goldratt and Fox (1986) , Goldratt and Cox (1992) , and Goldratt (1995...

... for improved overall manufacturing efficiency. The case studies showed an improvement of output of 14 per cent and 18 per cent, respectively. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Discrete manufacturing Manufacturing systems Production scheduling Reliability management Productivity rate...

... tools Productivity rate Software tools Machine tools are most important for the manufacture of discrete products. Naturally, it becomes necessary to consider machine tools with new and improved technologies when attempting to cater to increased quality levels and production system parameters...