Category: Production Operations

By Fernando J. Garrigos-Simon, Ignacio Gil-Pechuán, Sofia Estelles-Miguel

​​This ebook makes an attempt to hyperlink a number of the fresh advances in crowdsourcing with advances in innovation and administration. It contributes to the literature in numerous methods. First, it offers a world definition, insights and examples of this managerial viewpoint leading to a theoretical framework. moment, it explores the connection among crowdsourcing and technological innovation, the improvement of social networks and new behaviors of web clients. 3rd, it explores varied crowdsourcing purposes in numerous sectors similar to medication, tourism, info and conversation expertise (ICT), and advertising and marketing. Fourth, it observes the ways that crowdsourcing can increase construction, finance, administration and total managerial functionality.

Crowdsourcing, sometimes called “massive outsourcing” or “voluntary outsourcing,” is the act of taking a task or a particular activity often played through an worker of an organization or contractors, and outsourcing it to a wide staff of individuals or a group (crowd or mass) through the web, via an open name. The time period used to be coined via Jeff Howe in a 2006 factor of stressed out journal. it truly is being built in several sciences (i.e., drugs, engineering, ICT, administration) and is utilized in the main profitable businesses of the fashionable period (i.e., Apple, fb, Inditex, Starbucks). The advancements in crowdsourcing has theoretical and sensible implications, to be able to be explored during this booklet.

Including contributions from foreign teachers, students and execs in the box, this e-book offers an international, multidimensional point of view on crowdsourcing.​

By Willie Pearson Jr., Lisa M. Frehill, Connie L. McNeely

Many nations have applied rules to extend the quantity and caliber of clinical researchers as a way to foster innovation and spur monetary improvement and growth. for that reason, grounded in a view of ladies as a wealthy, but underutilized wisdom and exertions source, loads of fresh awareness has desirous about encouraging girls to pursue schooling and careers in technological know-how — even in nations with longstanding dominant patriarchal regimes. but, total, technological know-how is still a space during which women and girls are again and again deprived. This publication addresses that scenario. It bridges the space among person- and societal-level views on girls in technological know-how in a look for systematic ideas to the problem of creating an inclusive and efficient clinical team in a position to growing the innovation wanted for monetary development and societal wellbeing.

This booklet examines either the function of gender as an organizing precept of social existence and the relative place of girls scientists inside of nationwide and foreign hard work markets. Weaving jointly and interesting learn on globalization, the social association of technology, and gendered societal family as key social forces, this booklet addresses serious concerns affecting women’s contributions and participation in technology. additionally, whereas contemplating women’s illustration in technology as an entire, examinations of ladies within the chemical sciences, computing, arithmetic and facts are provided as examples to supply insights into how differing disciplinary cultures, practical projects and socio-historical stipulations can impact the development of ladies in technology relative to special adaptations in academic and occupational realities.

Edited via 3 social scientists famous for his or her services in technology and expertise coverage, schooling, staff participation, and stratification, this publication comprises contributions from an intellectually diversified crew of foreign students and analysts and lines compelling instances and tasks from world wide, with implications for study, perform, schooling and coverage development.

By Karl-Hendrik Magnus, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Thonemann

Auf der foundation einer der bislang größten europaweiten Untersuchungen zum Supply-Chain-Management im Handel zeigt Karl-Hendrik Magnus, dass der Erfolg von offer Chains maßgeblich durch die Gestaltung der Kooperation zwischen Einzelhandel und Herstellern beeinflusst wird und dass nicht jede Kooperationsform leistungssteigernd wirkt: Während intensiver Informationsaustausch und hohe Transparenz erstrebenswert sind, lohnt sich eine enge Verzahnung der Prozesse meist nicht.

By Ravi Behara

By Jürgen Richert

Dieses Buch stellt eine neue Methode vor, um Balanced Scorecards als tool zur Strategieimplementierung und Prozessoptimierung im provide Chain administration einzusetzen. Eine Fallstudie aus der Industrie zeigt die Anwendung in der Praxis. Ein innovativer, origineller Ansatz mit hohem Praxisnutzen.

By Carsten Feldmann, Andreas Pumpe

Die Autoren unterstützen Praktiker bei der Investitionsentscheidung zum Einsatz des 3D-Drucks, indem sie die Wirkungen auf Beschaffungs-, Produktions-, Distributions- und Retourenprozesse aufzeigen. Ihr pragmatisches Vorgehensmodell unterstützt die Auswahl des Druckverfahrens und die examine der Wirtschaftlichkeit. Sie entwickelten es in Zusammenarbeit mit acht Unternehmen der Automobil-, Elektronik-, Lebensmittel- und Kunststoffindustrie. Dabei werden die Wirkungen auf die provide Chain ganzheitlich betrachtet, um einen Vergleich zu konkurrierenden Szenarien wie konventionelle Fertigungsverfahren oder externe Beschaffung zu ermöglichen.

By Christian Pieter Hoffmann, Silke Lennerts, Christian Schmitz, Wolfgang Stölzle, Falk Uebernickel

​Business Innovation ist eine umfassende strategische Führungsaufgabe. Sie prägt das Unternehmen – und erfordert ein professionelles administration. Dieser für Praxis und Lehre konzipierte Band stellt erstmals ein ganzheitliches Modell der company Innovation vor und beschreibt detailliert Elemente sowie Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten aus Sicht der Unternehmensführung. Aktuelle Ergebnisse der Innovationsforschung werden von ausgewiesenen Experten präsentiert, erklärt und in das Modell eingeordnet. So wird deutlich: company Innovation ist kein Zufall, sie kann gezielt gefördert und realisiert werden.

By Jan Alexander Buchmann

Jan Buchmann makes a speciality of the valuation of a firm’s innovation strength in response to that firm’s place in its lifecycle. in comparison to current examine, the writer doesn't heart his examine completely on mathematical valuation methodologies. as a substitute, the writer compares amassed valuation enter facts, facts interpretation techniques, and valuation methodologies prompt via conception with those utilized by way of skilled valuation specialists in a really based manner by means of making use of a company typology. thus, he uncovers crucial alterations among conception and perform and derives theory-extending hypotheses from the exposed differences.

By Kenneth E. Heselton PE

This publication was once written in particular for boiler plan operators and supervisors who are looking to the best way to reduce plant working expenditures, in addition to how you can function vegetation of every kind and sizes extra correctly. it truly is newly revised with directions for HRSGs, mixed cycle platforms, and environmental results of boiler operation. additionally incorporated is a brand new bankruptcy on refrigeration platforms that addresses the environmental results of inadvertent and intentional discharges of refrigerants.

Going past the fundamentals of "keeping the strain up," the writer explains in transparent phrases how you can set potent priorities to make sure optimum plant operation, together with making sure security and continuity of operations, fighting harm, coping with environmental influence, education substitute plant operators, logging and conserving old information, and working the plant economically.

By Jeffrey Johnson, Philip Picton

Mechatronics is the fusion of mechanics and electronics within the layout of clever machines. This textbook is worried with the ideas and methods of synthetic intelligence wanted for the layout of machines with complex clever behaviour. It explores the subjects of development reputation, neural networks, scheduling, reasoning, fuzzy good judgment, rule-based structures, computer studying, keep watch over and machine vision.This pupil consultant exhibits how fifty years of study into synthetic intelligence (AI) have borne fruit within the layout of higher and extra clever machines. the dual goals of the textual content are: to provide an explanation for the speculation of the mainstream rules of AI and to teach how those rules might be utilized in functional engineering occasions.