The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/1463-5771.htm BIJ 13,1/2 Best practices of collaboration between university and industrial SMEs P. Pecas and E. Henriques ¸ Technology and Management Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, ´ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the implementation of best practices of collaboration between university and industrial small-
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Executive Summary The Lean implementation methodology (Lean) has its roots in manufacturing and particularly the automotive sector through the Toyota Production System. Over the last decade, Lean has expanded beyond manufacturing to become an improvement methodology firstly in the service sector and more recently in public sector organisations looking to improve efficiency and customer value. It is within this context that AtoZ Business Consultancy undertook an analysis of Lean implementations across
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CHAPTER 1: COST MANAGEMENT AND STRATEGY EXERCISES 1-24 Strategy; Real Estate Services (15 min) This exercise can be used to provide a good perspective for the students to see the role of cost management in solving business issues, and in placing the management accountant in more of a leadership role in the firm. It also provides an early motivation for the cost behavior issues to be discussed later in chapter 3 and chapter 8. The management accountant has a hunch that the company is about
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design? It puts the customer in control * Some may argue that the production-line approach may not treat the process as a service process, but as what type of process? A manufacturing approach * Poka-yoke is a Japanese term for a procedure that blocks an inevitable mistake from becoming what? A service defect * According to the Service-System Design Matrix, sales opportunity has what sort of relationship to production
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mercer.com/humancapital. Contents Creating a talent strategy to drive engagement in China 1 Developing a talent strategy to engage and up-skill staff 3 Developing a highly skilled workforce during rapid growth 5 Implementing lean manufacturing processes for a services-based organization 7 Designing a talent strategy through a three-day summit 9 Creating a "best fit" talent strategy to close skills gap 12 About us 15 About Mercer About Mercer’s talent
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assembled by a combination of processes called L6 manufacturing. The word manufacture first appeared in English in 1567 and is derived from the Latin manu factus, meaning “made by hand.” The word manufacturing first appeared in 1683, and the word production, which is often used interchangeably with the word l.8 manufacturing, first appeared sometime during the 15th century. Manufacturing is concerned with making products. A manufactured product may itself be used to make other products, such as (a)
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Supply Chain Management Task 1 A. Fourth quarter cumulative balanced scorecard: Cumulative industry results for last four quarters ending in quarter: 4| |Minimum|Maximum|Average|Mobile Office Computers| Total Overall|0.00|444.77|7.74|0.50| Financial Performance|-53.84|186.46|7.41|5.62| Market Performance|0.00|0.67|0.09|0.26| Marketing Effectiveness|0.00|0.82|0.17|0.67| Investment in Future|0.00|267.79|0.70|1.14| Wealth|-0.90|4.57|0.35|1.02| Human Resource Management|0.00|0.81|0.17|0
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Introduction to 6S at Joy Global JOSH OLSON ASHWINI PATIL EDGAR AMACA DR. HAMID SEIFODDINI IE 587: LEAN MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS SPRING 2014 MAY 06, 2014 Abstract Our project team tasked ourselves with taking a real-world application of LEAN manufacturing, 6S, and bringing it into the classroom to better demonstrate how the Industrial Engineering tools learned at a university can and are being used every day in industries local as well as abroad. To do this, a local manufacture
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techniques. Lean Production A business’s operation is only as fast as its slowest process. In order for Riordan Manufacturing to be successful, it needs to seek out and remove bottlenecks. By Riordan identifying these bottlenecks in the operation, they can improve the output of the entire process, which would make it definitely worth the effort. Lean production aims to combine the flexibility and quality of craftsmanship with the low costs of mass production (Economist, 2009). In a lean production
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Chapter 1 Lecture Notes Chapter theme: This chapter describes the larger business environment within which management accounting operates. It is divided into nine sections: (1) globalization, (2) strategy, (3) organizational structure, (4) process management, (5) the importance of ethics in business, (6) corporate governance, (7) enterprise risk management, (8) corporate social responsibility, and (9) the Certified Management Accountant. I. Globalization 1 A. Import/Export Data i. 2 Imports
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