Purpose The purpose of this paper is a “Q&A interview” conducted by Joanne Pransky of Industrial Robot Journal as a method to impart the combined technological, business and personal experience of a prominent, robotic industry PhD-turned-entrepreneur regarding the evolution,...

Purpose The following article is a “Q&A interview” conducted by Joanne Pransky of Industrial Robot Journal as a method to impart the combined technological, business and personal experience of a prominent, robotic industry PhD-turned successful innovator and entrepreneur regarding turning...

Purpose – This article, a “Q&A interview” conducted by Joanne Pransky of Industrial Robot Journal , aims to impart the combined technological, business, and personal experience of a prominent, robotic industry engineer-turned entrepreneur regarding the evolution, commercialization, and...

This paper presents our experience in the development of an expert system to be used for detailed scheduling in an industrial company. This was a middle‐sized company which builds metallic components for the automotive industry. Because of the complexity of the environment where it has to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report a study in which analytical network process (ANP) was used for selecting the best concept from sustainability view point. Design/methodology/approach – The concept selection in the sustainability viewpoint is a typical multi-criteria...

Purpose – Increasingly over the next decade corporate leaders will have to deal with the political and social fallout of othersourcing – the ability to have work done by robots and computer programs. Design/methodology/approach – Provides examples of this othersourcing trend in every kind...

Examines the environmental innovations of several progressive businesses, including Ben & Jerry′s and the Body Shop, in the areas of products, processes, and campaigns to save the planet. Discusses how the green consumer market, copy‐cat competitors, infrastructure development, employee...