products, establishing improvements in their production process so as to be more competitive. Productivity, one of the … productivity, making it difficult to establish policies and strategies to improve the factory. In this article, the authors perform … a systematic review of the literature on factors affecting productivity of software factories, and models for measuring …

Manufacturing is crucial for the robust growth of the economy, for exports and for generating substantial relevant … employment. Manufacturing is a force multiplier; it means investment in manufacturing yields four times the effect on Gross … Domestic Product (GDP) growth. The core manufacturing sector comprises engineering and construction, industrial manufacturing …

the tools needed to increase productivity and minimizes delivery reaction times by assisting in the optimization of …

This paper presents the concept of including the energy cost as a part of the total cost of manufacturing using …

This article describes how U.S. manufacturing was stricken when companies embraced outsourcing beginning in the 1990s … manufacturing textiles and apparel in the United States is the narrowing gap between the U.S. and Asian labor costs. The sector … unlikely that textile manufacturing will create the large number of jobs that it did in the past. Furthermore, it is only …

The direction of current literature in addressing sustainability issues in the manufacturing sector highlights some … manufacturing organization, the role of the manufacturing function in creating competitiveness has been outdone by the current … proposes a unifying framework in formulating a manufacturing strategy which espouses sustainability with due consideration of …

nutrition. This article proposes to identify the determinants of time to under-five mortality in Ethiopia based on the 2014 data … parameters shared among frailty models are employed to identify the determinants of Time-To-Under-Five Mortality of Ethiopia. The …-gamma multivariable-shared frailty model predicted that the major factors identified for under-five mortality in Ethiopia were mothers …