Over the past few decades, the agricultural sector of Southeast Asia has experienced robust growth and undergone a structural transformation albeit differentially across the countries in the region. The main aims of this paper are to understand the process of transformation and sources of growth...

Root-cause identification for quality and productivity related problems are key issues for manufacturing processes. It has been a very challenging engineering problem particularly in a multistage manufacturing, where maximum number of processes and activities are performed. However, it may also...

This paper presents a methodology for determining the real problem associated with the industries in implementation of Lean Manufacturing (LM) practices by collecting and analyzing the gathered data from 84 small-scale industries situated in Jharkhand, India with the help of a structured...