"This book addresses the present discussions surrounding flexible production systems based on automation, robotics and cybernetics as they continue to replace the traditional production systems"--Provided by publisher.

"This book addresses the issues that industrial companies face in the current era of globalization and how the application of systems theory has affected their performance by highlighting issues such as theoretical approaches of systems theory, production strategies, and organizational...

This book is a comprehensive introduction of the reader into the simulation and modelling techniques and their application in the management of organisations. The book is rooted in the thorough understanding of systems theory applied to organisations and focuses on how this theory can apply to...

Costs are in all aspects of each company. Some of the most noticeable costs of business are the costs associated with storage, transportation and distribution the products of the company. In this case a significant impact on reducing these costs is to use the services of logistics centers,...

In every area of business activity taking place conflicts that have already identified can be addressed by the logistics. Conflicts take place in the supplier-customer relationships, because their interests are in conflict and conflict-related activity of logistics enterprises. In this article...

in all, currently operating enterprise in the market, both manufacturing and service sectors, there is a logistics system. The basic components of this system are the three main processes such as procurement, production and distribution. In this article we have presented and discussed in detail...

A large part of fixed assets depreciate with time, a fact that requires their replacement, usually, through amortization. Amortization appears as a value equivalent of the irreversible deterioration of an asset as a result of its functioning, of the effects of natural factors, of technical...

This article presents issues concerning life cycle of products. Taking into account the limitation of the life cycle of products and strategic investments that require the use of certain technologies, the decision of setting forth a new product on the market should rely upon the costs of its...