, this work reviews the exiting literature around the design, planning, and control of manufacturing networks in the era of … network design, supply chain coordination, complexity, logistics management, inventory and capacity planning and management …Manufacturers and service providers are called to design, plan, and operate globalised manufacturing networks …

Postconflict reconstruction programmes often aim to improve state–society relations but fail to spell out the … a large‐scale reconstruction programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). We find that the programme improved …

design (and redesign) for entrepreneurship in innovation-driven knowledge economy. …

Manufacturers aim to design product-service systems (PSS) which integrate services with products to attain sustained … competitive advantage from a life cycle perspective. PSS design should be customised solutions which are aligned to integrated … stakeholders' capabilities, a subject which the extant literature has not sufficiently addressed. This paper proposes a systematic …

challenges of implementing design features that focus on engaging learners with powerful ideas. …

rapidly developing market. KickStart's MoneyMaker Hip Pump is a human-powered water pump with additional design features that … numerical optimization techniques to the design of the MoneyMaker Hip Pump and offers further improvements to its design … of water, and minimize cost. Following optimization, the robustness of the optimized pump design was analyzed under …

cookstoves to have greater impact, there must be better balance between the two competing design objectives of technical …

response immediately after a disaster. With speed as the main driver, product design for humanitarian aid purposes is a key … hours of humanitarian operations. The design focuses on defining the topology of the various parts of equipment by taking … into consideration factors of serviceability, functionality, human-product interaction, universal design language, energy …