Pius Achanga‚ Esam Shehab‚ Rajkumar Roy and Geoff Nelder Department of Enterprise Integration‚ School of Industrial and Manufacturing Science‚ Centre for Decision Engineering‚ Cranfield University‚ Cranfield‚ UK Abstract Purpose – The aim of this research paper is to present the critical factors that constitute a successful implementation of lean manufacturing within manufacturing SMEs. Design/methodology/approach – A combination of comprehensive literature review and visits to ten SMEs based in the
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1) Answer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is the largest retail company in the United States and has been ranked number one by Fortune Magazine. Wal-Mart has four parts to their corporate strategy. 1. Dominance in the Retail Market 2. Expansion in the U.S. and International Markets 3. Creation of Positive Brand and Company Recognition 4. Branch Out into New Sectors of Retail If I were appointed as Thailand’s CEO of Wal-Mart to engage retail business in Thailand market‚ first I need to analyze the
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Additive Manufacturing; Rapidly Develops to a Mainstream Technology Additive Manufacturing (AM) also known as 3D printing in its infancy is one of the most progressive technologies in the manufacturing industry and medical fields. Soon this technology will be mainstream in these fields but will also be found in many households around the globe. AM DEFINITION Some of you may not know what AM is‚ the following is the standard definition by ASTM F2792-10‚ “The process of joining materials
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Building a virtual team Saturday August 26‚ 2012 Building a virtual team A virtual team is a group of individuals who work across time‚ space and organizational boundaries with links strengthened by webs of communication technology. Several key factors can cause a virtual team to succeed or to go down the drains such as lack of interest‚ lack of directions and difference of work ethic. We can describe the key challenges and pitfalls to virtual teams as such: Some virtual team lack of clear
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Introduction Enron provided the perfect example of how mismanagement and greed‚ culminating in an unethical business environment‚ can result in the collapse of a seemingly secure organisation (Wang & Murnighan‚ 2001: 279-280). This paper will illustrate how the cultivation of an organisation’s ethos is often vastly dependent on the examples set by top management. Therefore‚ in order to foster an ethical culture successfully‚ the conduct of these members is key. Through the use of Schein’s primary
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Corporate Compliance Plan for Riordan Manufacturing University of Phoenix Riordan Manufacturing is a profitable plastics manufacturer with annual earnings of $46 million. The company is wholly owned by Riordan Industries‚ a Fortune 1000 company with revenues over $1 billion. The following are some of the products produced by Riordan Industries: plastic bottles‚ fans‚ heart valves‚ medial stents‚ and custom plastic parts (Virtual Organization‚ 2009). This compliance plan will state the company’s
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An organization creates value by converting inputs into outputs. It takes several resources such as raw materials‚ machinery‚ information‚ knowledge‚ human resources‚ money and capital as inputs and applies appropriate production and transformation processes at the conversion stage to produce finished goods and services. Consumers purchase these goods and services to satisfy their needs. The environment‚ in which an organization operates‚ affects stages in the value-creation process
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Riordan Corporate Compliance Plan LAW/531 February 4‚ 2013 Marlene Wilhite‚ Esq. Riordan Corporate Compliance Plan To: Riordan Corporate Board and Officers Riordan Manufacturing is a Fortune 1000 company specializing in the manufacture of plastic beverage containers‚ fans‚ plastic components‚ and medical devices with annual earnings of $46 million. The company operates divisions located in Albany‚ Georgia‚ Pontiac‚ Michigan‚ and Hangzhou‚ China (University of Phoenix‚ 2013). The following
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and how many people do learn‚ that the learning experiences from a the classroom are irreplaceable and are much more valuable to the student. Educators have drawn quite different conclusions in addressing the following questions: 1. How to accommodate different learning styles online? 2. What is the quality of instruction online instruction? 3. Should students’ forsake the classroom and learn online? This review of the literature on online education focuses on these three questions. How to accommodate
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1.0 Introduction Lean manufacturing is the systematic elimination of waste from all aspects of an organization’s operations‚ where waste is viewed as any use or loss of resources that does not lead directly to creating the product or service a customer wants when they want it. In many industrial processes‚ such non-value added activity can comprise more than 90 percent of a factory’s total activity Lean manufacturing or lean production are reasonably new terms that can be traced to Jim Womack‚ Daniel
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