Competitive and Sustainable Manufacturing in the Age of Globalization

Chen, Tin-Chih

doi:10.3390/su9010026

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“…"The competitiveness and sustainability of an enterprise are closely related. Competitiveness has received ever-growing attention in the era of globalization" [14]. In the context of the above-mentioned thoughts together with the requirement of the sustainable development, the enterprises incorporating this requirement into their business strategies, while linking it with the requirement of efficiency, will be competitive on the market.…”

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Human Capital Management in Transport Enterprises with the Acceptance of Sustainable Development in the Slovak Republic

Kucharčíková

Mičiak

2018

Sustainability

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Transport enterprises produce emissions during their activity, which is how they contribute to the polluting of the environment. The requirement of sustainability should therefore be incorporated into their concept of human capital management as well. The aim of this article is to point out the possibilities of application of various human capital management approaches leading to the requirement of increasing the efficiency, performance, competitiveness and sustainability of a transport enterprise in conditions of the Slovak Republic. Via the survey conducted in Slovak enterprises, we found out that the enterprises do not use human capital management much because they have only little knowledge about this concept of work with human capital. Based on the studying of professional literature, the results from the survey, and own experience, we designed two approaches for better implementation of human capital management leading to the increase of efficiency, performance and sustainability of enterprises operating in the field of public transport. The first one is the increase of human capital value via training, and the second consists of the metrics for the assessment of how effectively the enterprises use human capital. We have verified the application of the metrics in conditions of a concrete particular enterprise.

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Human Capital Management in Transport Enterprises with the Acceptance of Sustainable Development in the Slovak Republic

Kucharčíková

Mičiak

2018

Sustainability

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“…Promoting the sustainable development of the equipment manufacturing industry requires the consideration of project duration, cost, and other indicators to ensure an effective analysis, evaluation, and selection of the equipment development task plan [1]. An equipment development task requires a large investment of resources and a huge amount of work to be executed within a short timeframe [2]. Completing a development task requires cooperation between many development teams and a high degree of innovation.…”

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Rework Quantification and Influence of Rework on Duration and Cost of Equipment Development Task

2018

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Rework is a sub-task within equipment development tasks that is revised after initial completion to meet task requirements. Some sub-tasks require multiple rework iterations due to their uncertainty and complexity, or the technology and process needs of the overall task, resulting in inefficient task implementation and resource wastage. Therefore, studying the impact of rework iterations on the duration and cost of development tasks is worthwhile. This study divides rework into foreseeable and hidden types and uses several methods to express and quantify their parameters. The main influencing factors in rework iterations—the uncertainty and complexity of the development task—are quantitatively analyzed. Then, mathematical and mapping models of the dependence between sub-tasks, uncertainty, complexity, and rework parameters are established. The impacts of rework type and rework parameters on the duration and cost of equipment development tasks are analyzed via simulation based on the design structure matrix (DSM). Finally, an example is used to illustrate the influence of different rework types and rework parameters on development tasks’ duration and cost. The results show that the duration and cost of development tasks are greater, their volatility range is wider, and the distribution is more dispersed when both foreseeable and hidden rework are considered.

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“…This concept enabled the establishment of the TBL index, which is an aggregate measure of the sustainability performance of a company as a dynamic balance among economic growth, environmental improvement, and social equity. Despite being called an index, TBL is measured considering the three pillars of sustainability individually, not as an aggregate [12].…”

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Measuring the Sustainability of a Manufacturing Process: A Conceptual Framework

2017

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Abstract:Recently, besides recurrent financial gains, industries have been required to boost their environmental and social performance to fulfil the demands of several stakeholders. Moreover, the need to measure the sustainability of manufacturing processes is recognized because the production and operations managers need to know how they are contributing to the triple bottom line of their respective companies. To do that, many initiatives have been developed although all of them face some limitations: (a) they are only appropriate for the company as a whole, which makes their application for a manufacturing process difficult; (b) they consider the measures for sustainability (economic, environmental and social) as separate variables with no integration among them, which could become a methodological difficulty in case indicators move in different directions; or (c) they are too complicated to be used as a practical tool on the factory floor. Hence, this study proposes a framework to evaluate the sustainability level of a manufacturing process, integrating the economic, environmental, and social variables into a single combined measure. A case study exemplifies how the proposed procedure can be applied in real-world situations.

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Competitive and Sustainable Manufacturing in the Age of Globalization

Cited by 17 publications

References 31 publications

Human Capital Management in Transport Enterprises with the Acceptance of Sustainable Development in the Slovak Republic

Human Capital Management in Transport Enterprises with the Acceptance of Sustainable Development in the Slovak Republic

Rework Quantification and Influence of Rework on Duration and Cost of Equipment Development Task

Measuring the Sustainability of a Manufacturing Process: A Conceptual Framework

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