As manufacturing businesses compete in an ever more competitive and global economy where products get easily commoditized, innovating by adding services to the core product offering has become a highly popular strategy. Contrary to the expected strategic and economic benefits, recent findings...

RFID technology promises to improve a broad range of processes in logistics and manufacturing. However, market acceptance of RFID develops slower than anticipated. One likely reason is the difficulty to evaluate the resulting effects beforehand. A lot of research has already been conducted on...

5S is a basic framework of workplace organization that focus on sort, set in order, shine, standardizes and Sustain. This methodology is used to attain lean in the manufacturing system by eliminating the wastage that are about to occur because of the untidy, unhealthy work environment. This...

The purpose of this research study is to analyze the factors that prevent small and medium size enterprises from implementing lean manufacturing processes and show, that by not implementing lean they are missing out on savings, efficient workforce, and new markets in the globalization arena....

The article explores the role of labor reforms and manufacturing industries as a viable option for India to take the benefit of globalization for ensuring inclusive growth. The economic performance of India over the last one decade is phenomenal. After experiencing slow down in the worst global...

Commentators suggest that to survive in developed economies manufacturing firms have to move up the value chain, innovating and creating ever more sophisticated products and services, so they do not have to compete on the basis of cost. While this strategy is proving increasingly popular with...