The purpose of this article is to evaluate and select websites in Polish book sector with regard to quality measured by their usefulness for an individual client. First, the author has presented characteristics of the sector and basic methodological assumptions of the study. Next, he has...

During the production process one should operatively survey pre-established (standard) costs with a view of determining and analyzing deviations as costs are settled at the level of an activity considered to be normal while real activity can display deviations from this. The system of analysis...

Presently, in the times of various threats and frequent economic, social and political crises – Energy Security Intensification is of key importance for the constant development of the Global Society. Energy Security is the term that cannot be unequivocally defined and determined in the global...

In the conditions of computing the human society, the operational management activities can be improved by using artificial intelligence. Therefore, an expert system is proposed, for the metallurgical industry, for the casting activity for parts necessary in mining industry.

In this paper a technique for decision support for selecting a physical configuration are presented. This technique is useful during the redesign of a proposed restructuring of production processes resulted in a BPR approach. Based on the use of simulation and from the traditional experimental...

This paper aims to study the problem of cooperation in the extended enterprise case. This study focuses on the presentation of agent-oriented extended enterprise as a solution allowing enterprises to overcome the cooperation problem, in general, and conflict resolution, in particular. In this...

Pursuant to the analysis of the assessment method of the structures of the production process, in the construction of machines, we find that, due to the requirements of diversification of assortments and features of products, criteria of the quality level and work productivity, the reduction of...

One of the important issues of production management is the most efficient possible use of the production capacity as the global level of the production fixed expenses depends on the unit’s production capacity and their level per product unit diminishes as the degree of employment of such a...

In the increasingly global marketplace, many manufacturers and service providers are applying lean manufacturing philosophy in order to optimize costs and quality gaining a competitive advantage. The paper summarises the advantages of application of lean philosophy in the manufacturing and...

This paper focuses on the importance of sector small and medium enterprises (SME) in each economic system and necessity of support of development and of entrepreneurship of this sector. The first part deals with an analysis of development of quantitative parameters of SME through selected...