Industrial management

Industrial management commitment to long-term research and development appears to be more solid in Japan than in the United States. 

In agribusiness and the food industry, management of quality is often assumed to be a rather controllable process. This may be illustrated by the great attention paid to the development and implementation of quality systems in the past decade. These quality systems are commonly based on procedures and control circles as mechanisms to control and assure quality. After implementation, however, it often appears in practice that the intended results are not obtained and exact reasons are not clear. ... 

Yeager, R., New Profits from Advanced Control, PIMA Magazine (Paper Industry Management Association), 77(1) 6 (1995)... 

All chemical industry managers and process equipment operating personnel must know their plant/facility. There is no excuse for not knowing every square inch of the plant site. In particular, plant workers should know about any and all construction activities under way on the site, the actual construction parameters of the plant, and especially the operation of all plant unit processes. In addition, plant management must know not only their operating staff but also their customers. 

Since the SCADA systems sensors provided valuable information, many utilities and other industries established connections between their SCADA systems and their business system. This allowed utility/industrial management and other staff access to valuable statistics, such as chemical usage. When utilities/industries later connected their systems to the Internet, they were able to provide stakeholders/stockholders with usage statistics on the utility/industrial web pages. Figure 7.1 provides a basic illustration of a representative SCADA network. Note that firewall protection (see chapter 9) would normally be placed between the Internet and the business system and between the business system and the MTU. 

Industry Manager FTIR for Refining Petrochemicals, ABB Analytical Measurements, Quebec, Canada... 

The applications described in this second part of the chapter are intended to illustrate the wide range of uses for NIR in the chemical industry. The selection of examples was intentionally limited to work done within industry and published in the open literature in order to keep the focus on work that has demonstrated business value. However, it has been the authors experience that for every industrial NIR application published in the open literature there are at least two others practiced as trade secrets for business reasons. This is especially true for on-hne applications that have progressed beyond the feasibility stage, since the NIR results can reveal a great deal of information about the chemical process itself - information which industry managers are often reluctant to share. Pubhshed industrial applications should therefore be considered merely the tip of the iceberg. 

Kawase, Takeshi and Rubenstein, A. H., "Reactions of Japanese Industrial Managers to Government Incentives to Innovation - An Empirical Study", Transaction on Engineering Management (August 1977) 93-101. 

ARTHUR GERSTENFELD (Industrial Management) is Professor and Head of the Department of Management at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 

Canel C, Das SR (2002) Modeling global facility location decisions integrating marketing and manufacturing decisions. Industrial Management Data Systems 102 110-118... 

Karakaya F, Canel C (1998) Underlying dimensions of business location decisions. Industrial Management Data Systems 7 321-329 Karkazis J (1989) Facilities location in a competitive environment A PROMETHEE based multiple criteria analysis. European Journal of Operational Research 42 294-304... 

Tempelmeier H (1999) Advanced Planning Systems. Industrie Management 15 69-72... 

Vokurka RJ, Flores BE (2002) Plant charter classifications and the operating homogeneity of US manufacturing plants. Industrial Management + Data Systems 102 406-416... 

On balance, the applied research investigating napping provides evidence for the utility of workplace napping. To the extent that naps are beneficial in the workplace, they have important practical implications for many individuals and industry alike. With particular regard to industry, management may avoid the adverse effects of impaired performance, productivity, and workplace safety that accompanies sleepiness (15) by allowing employees to inteiject a nap into their work routines. 

Alford L. and Beatty, H., Principles of Industrial Management, Ronald press, 1951. 

We need to talk about work quality issues. In industry, managers are compensated according to how good a job they do. This is not necessarily the case in academia, and this might be something we could learn from. 

This study has been conducted under the direction of the Monroe County Landfill Review Committee, comprised of representatives of the Monroe County Environmental Management Council, the Monroe County Departments of Health and Planning, the New York State Departments of Health and Environmental Conservation, the City of Rochester Department of Community Development and the Industrial Management Council. 

Again, though, as with AIDS, the industry managed to pull the rug out from under its own defense. A sizable number of the FDA approvals weren t for new cures for cancer or other serious ailments they were for questionable improve-... 

Management reports can also be used to continuously improve the quality of a pharmaceutical care practice. Quality improvement concepts are used in many service-oriented industries. Management reports are essential to improve pharmaceutical care services by integrating data from groups or populations of patients served to help make practice management decisions. 

Pharmaceutical industry—Management. 2. Pharmacentical indnstry—Data processing. 

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