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Kaizen practices and performance improvement in Zambian manufacturing companies

Cogent Engineering, 2023
There is strong evidence that Zambian manufacturing organisations are increasingly implementing Kaizen programs to help them improve productivity and enhance delivery performance.
Chanda Sichinsambwe, Peter Lubosi Simasiku, Shem Sikombe, Harris Nyimbili   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Global and regional temporal changes in cross‐country inequalities of site‐specific osteoarthritis burden, 1990–2021

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective This study examined the global and regional temporal changes in cross‐country inequalities of site‐specific osteoarthritis (OA) burden from 1990 to 2021. Methods Age‐standardized years lived with disability rate for site‐specific OA across 204 countries/territories were obtained from the Global Burden of Diseases Study (GBD) 2021.
Haowei Chen, Lei Si, David J Hunter, Lei Zhang, Zhe‐Sheng Chen, Xiaomeng Wang, Vicky Duong, Zhounan Zhou, Peihua Cao, Han Cen, Su'an Tang, Tianyu Chen, Houjun Xue, Zhaohua Zhu, Changhai Ding   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Alleviating Poverty by Empowering Women Through Business Model Innovation: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Insights and Opportunities

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2020
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) has published papers of importance for poverty alleviation. Yet rich opportunities for impactful research remain as yet untapped.
E. Plambeck, Kamalini Ramdas
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Data‐driven forecasting of ship motions in waves using machine learning and dynamic mode decomposition

International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, EarlyView.
Summary Data‐driven forecasting of ship motions in waves is investigated through feedforward and recurrent neural networks as well as dynamic mode decomposition. The goal is to predict future ship motion variables based on past data collected on the field, using equation‐free approaches.
Matteo Diez, Mauro Gaggero, Andrea Serani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Guidelines for e-Startup Promotion Strategy

Journal of Technology Management & Innovation, 2015
Startup businesses have always played an important role in the global economy, but recently their importance has grown significantly. For this reason, governments around the world have amended regulation and created incentives to encourage their ...
Valerio De Simone, Marco D'Avino, Massimiliano Maria Schiraldi, Marco Iannucci   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Industry 4.0: Opportunities and Challenges for Operations Management

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2019
Industry 4.0 connotes a new industrial revolution centered around cyber-physical systems. It posits that the real-time connection of physical and digital systems, along with new enabling technologies, will change the way that work is done and therefore ...
T. Olsen, Brian Tomlin
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Enhancing the Financial Returns of R&D Investments through Operations Management

Production and operations management, 2020
Although much research has been carried out to examine various contextual issues and moderating factors for successful R&D investments, very little research has been conducted to explore the role of a firm's operational and process characteristics.
L. Yiu, Hugo K.S. Lam, Andy C.L. Yeung, T. Cheng   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Adipose Mesenchymal Stem Cell‐Derived Exosomes in Conjunction with Roflumilast Ameliorate Chronic Kidney Disease Through the Modulation of Fibrosis and Inflammation

Advanced Biology, EarlyView.
The novelty of this study showed that the injection of exosomes produced from ADMSCs in combination with Roflumilast poses a more favorable therapeutic outcome for CKD induced by Adriamycin, compared to therapy with exosomes or Roflumilast alone. Roflumilast and exosomes treatment lowered the expression of the apoptotic, fibrotic, and inflammatory ...
Mohamed Ali, Mohamed H. Sherif, Nashwa Barakat, Bassant Yahia, Ahmed A. Shokeir, Basel Sitohy   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal Fleet Policy of Rental Vehicles with Relocation: A Simulation Study

Journal of Advanced Transportation
Popularity of one-way car rentals poses a challenge to rental car fleet management and brings to focus the importance of a strategic decision for rental car operators: whether to implement a single-fleet or a multifleet model.
John-Carlo Favier, Subhamoy Ganguly, Timofey Shalpegin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Supply chain integration in the South African conveyancing environment

Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management, 2016
Background: Although conveyancing is a legal term, business management and specifically operations management principles also apply to the processes involved in conveyancing.
Anthea P. Amadi-Echendu, Louis P. Krüger   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source