New Production Planning Research Articles

A Multiple Agent-Based System for the Intelligent Demand Planning of New Products

A Multiple Agent-Based System for the Intelligent Demand Planning of New Products

A multiple agent-based system for the intelligent demand planning of new products

A multiple agent-based system for the intelligent demand planning of new products

Multi-objective production planning of new and remanufactured products in hybrid production system

In this study, we address the production planning problem within a hybrid manufacturing remanufacturing system. This system is composed of a single machine that can work in two modes: the first one that produces new products from raw materials and the second one that produces remanufactured products from returned used products. Our study is based on economic and environmental considerations where the goal is to determine the best manufacturing and remanufacturing plan that satisfies the demand for new and remanufactured products and simultaneously minimizes the total costs included (start-up, production, storage and disposal costs) as well as the minimization of the CO2 emissions generated by the new, remanufactured and disposed of products. A multi-objective mathematical model is established, and an approach based on a non-dominated genetic sorting algorithm (NSGA-II) is introduced; in addition, a technique of order performance by similarity to the ideal solution (TOPSIS) is used to find the best compromise solution among the pareto front obtained by the NSGA-II algorithm. Finally, a computational experiment is implemented to study the influence of carbon emissions from new, remanufactured and discarded items over a production horizon.

How recreational farm operators use dynamic capabilities to respond to COVID-19 pandemic.

The outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic has devastated economic activities around the world. The tourism industry is facing severe challenges, such as reduced tourist flow and the lack of tourist consumption at destinations. Recreational farms are one of the business types of agricultural tourism in Taiwan and have the characteristics of small and medium-sized agriculture businesses. The operator is facing an uncertain environment in the epidemic market, and the operator's dynamic capability is considered to be effective in coping with the current environment. In this study, 20 selected recreational farms were interviewed to explore how operators use dynamic capabilities to make responses. The results show that recreational farms have the three elements of dynamic capabilities: sense, seize, and transform, to change farm marketing channels and develop new products or services to respond to the new market. Recreational farm operators adopted resource optimization, computerization, and cost control strategies to respond to the market.Management implicationsA successful implementation of recreational farm offers requires-the reallocation of resources,-the planning of new products and services, and - the improvement of service processes to create new business and to address additional target groups.The COVID-19 pandemic forces a systematic positioning or repositioning of the business.

КОНЦЕПТУАЛЬНИЙ ПІДХІД ДО ВИЗНАЧЕННЯ СУТНОСТІ ТА ОБҐРУНТУВАННЯ СКЛАДОВИХ ЕЛЕМЕНТІВ ІННОВАЦІЙНОГО МАРКЕТИНГУ

The article substantiates that the symbiosis of marketing and innovation, dictated by the requirements for businesses seeking effective and sustainable development in modern economic conditions, has become a catalyst for the emergence of the concept of “innovative marketing” and related concepts such as “innovation marketing” and “marketing innovations”. This has sparked debate among researchers and scholars, whose views on these categories are divided between those who identify them and those who distinguish them. The authors systematized the existing positions of modern researchers and emphasized the lack of agreement in the views of scientists on the essence and content of innovation marketing and innovation marketing, and proposed clarification of their content. According to the results of systematization, the authors identified the following approaches to the definition and characterization of the concept of “innovative marketing”: as a process of planning and introduction of new products to the market; as a concept of doing business; as a search for new areas and ways to use the potential of the enterprise; as an activity in the innovation market; as an activity of the enterprise aimed at the formation of new markets. The authors conclude that in scientific publications there is a unity of positions of the authors on the concept of “innovation in marketing”. In addition, the authors of the article summarize the approaches to the definition of “innovation marketing”: as a tactical innovation marketing; as an activity aimed at finding new areas and ways to use the potential of the enterprise; as an activity aimed at the commercialization of innovations; as a direction of marketing activity, which requires special methods, tools and methods; as an activity aimed at finding new areas of activity; as a combination of actions, receptions, methods, systematic activity of subjects of economic relations concerning development and advancement in the market of new goods. Taking into account the work of modern researchers in the field of innovative marketing and on the basis of their critical analysis, the authors of the article propose a conceptual approach to understanding the essence, components of innovative marketing and types of innovations in marketing.

THE PERCEIVED VALUE OF DESIGN FOR NEW PRODUCTS AT MICRO AND SMALL COMPANIES

The research aims to identify and promote improvements in the planning and development processes of new products with the insertion of the design. The study was developed in three micro and small furniture companies, which are located in the city of Santa Maria-RS. This market segment was chosen because it has changes in the execution of its productive processes and by the constant search of new products in order to meet the requirements of its customers. Based on the evaluations of the final consumers and the control of the information provided by the managers of the planning and production sectors, it was sought to qualify the products based on the design. A multiple case study was used in order to identify the main differences between visions in the generation of new products. Based on this, the quality evaluation matrix, Quality Function Deployment (QFD) was used to identify and quantify procedures that have a greater impact between the planning and execution of new tailored furniture. It was possible to detect difficulties in the insertion of the design in the Furniture Industries. It is necessary to overcome some obstacles to change the company’s culture regarding the management of new products

Malay Garden as Tourism Product in Malaysia

This study introduces the concept of Malay garden design in the eyes of tourists, particularly from the inside and outside the country. The objectives are to explain the relationship between cultural tourism and cultural landscape and how to produce the concept of landscape design as a new tourism product to become tourist attractions in Malaysia by using the old Malay manuscripts and an observation to the old houses of the Malay community in Peninsular Malaysia. Finally, researchers are ready to offer ideas to the planning and development of new tourism products based on local culture especially the Malays culture.

Synthesis and Evaluation of Biocide and Cetane Number Improver Additives for Biodiesel from Chemical Changes in Triacylglycerides

Biodiesel demand is increasing all over the world and the inhibition of microbial growth during the storage of this biofuel is extremely important. There are few studies involving the evaluation of biocides specifically for biodiesel. In the present work, we synthesized and evaluated a set of biocide candidates from chemical transformations in triacylglycerides. Samples of pure biodiesel with the products were evaluated against microorganisms which have been isolated from biodiesel/diesel blends (fungi A. niger, A. fumigatus, C. albicans and S. cerevisiae; and bacteria B. subtilis and Acinetobacter sp.). None of the products inhibited the growth of bacteria. Four nitrated derivatives presented fungicidal activity. The nitrated derivatives were also evaluated as cetane number improvers for B7 biodiesel/diesel blend. The nitrates of soybean methoxylated ethylene glycol esters increased the cetane number by more than three points. Despite showing modest biocide activity, the results can guide the planning of new products from triacylglycerides.

Reference model for the implementation of new assembly processes in the automotive sector

The literature on the planning and development of new products is of great interest to both the academic and industry communities, especially within the automotive industry. However, the same cannot be stated as easily about studies related to the implementation of new products and their processes in manufacturing, which also requires careful planning and development. For this, the purpose of this article is to present a consistent and effective reference model for the implementation of new assembly processes in the automotive sector. The model consists of a description of steps, quality checks, actions, and validations required by the product manufactured in the serial production process. The methodology has its consistency and relevance assessed by means of a practical application in the development of an automotive component assembly process, located during the final assembly. For the validation of the model, indicators of the assembly process are compared in two stages: one with the process developed by the traditional method and the other considering a process developed with the proposed method. Results show that the traditional method offer a higher rate of defective products, when compared to the presented reference model for the implementation of new assembly processes in the automotive sector. A qualitative assessment is also presented through a survey with recognized experts of the automotive environment, thus validating the proposed model.

The performance implications of leveraging internal innovation through social media networks: An empirical verification of the smart fashion industry

Despite rigorous empirical research exploring the changes in innovation dynamics triggered by Social Media Networks (SMNs), the benefits coming from the use of these digital platforms for knowledge search in innovative activities for small to medium enterprises (SMEs) are still unexplored. Customers become the new trailblazers. Thus, by adopting a customer led innovation perspective, this paper seeks to measure the effect on return on investment (ROI) of the use of SMNs as external drivers for supporting internal innovation search processes. On the basis of the extant literature on information system and social network analysis, the research describes and evaluates the multidimensional activities interwoven into the open innovation process, driven by integrating the five constructs of structural dimension, relational behaviour, cognitive dimension, knowledge transfer, and legitimization into our hypothesised conceptual model.Empirical research was conducted via the Classification Regression Tree (CART) on a sample of 2548 SMEs belonging to the fashion industry and based in Italy and in the United Kingdom. This study is of importance to academics and practitioners due to the increasing significance taken on by the adoption of social media networks in the fashion industry to improve innovation search. Recommendations are made to fashion managers and social media experts to support the planning and development of new products and services. New contributions are offered to the innovation and knowledge management literature. In addition, theoretical implications and avenues for future research are also considered.

The relationships among supply chain partnerships, customer orientation, and operational performance: the effect of flexibility

The research goal of this study was to investigate how supply chain partnerships and customer orientation affect the operational performance of food service companies by moderating flexibility. In total, 725 invitation messages were mailed to members of Ihergo, Groupon, 17P, of which, 166 were returned (a return rate of 22.9 %). Structured equation modeling with PLS analysis allows empirical assessment of the measurement model used in this study. Companies will redefine their business models by connecting suppliers' and customers' view, and by integrating customers' opinions and queries for the planning and development of new products. Linkage efficiency suppliers will reduce inventory and decrease perishable for food service companies based on the driving force to buy in the virtual environment. Product innovation and reduction of the time to market by supplier integration and customer integration are important to food service companies, and flexibility plays an important role in food service companies.

10207 小学生向け「エンジニア塾」の提案

This paper describes a new concept of children engineers coaching school. We suggest the engineer training education that has not been practiced in primary education in Japan. Under this condition, already a large number of scientific classrooms have been held in various places. Knowledge teaching of scientific phenomenon can be used as experience education, to achieve the engineering development education not performed in school education. As a result, engineer education with a wider experience is expected. After this education, student will enter university science and engineering division, and will be employed in Japanese company. Thus educated engineers, it is expected to be a big success in worldwide, such as planning of new products.

Identity of Malay Garden Design to be Promoted as the Cultural Tourism Product in Malaysia

This study introduces the concept of Malay garden design in the eyes of tourists, particularly from the inside and outside the country. The objectives are to explain the relationship between cultural tourism and cultural landscape and how to produce the concept of landscape design as a new tourism product to become tourist attractions in Malaysia by using the old Malay manuscripts and an observation to the old houses of the Malay community in Peninsular Malaysia. Finally, researchers are ready to offer ideas to the planning and development of new tourism products based on local culture especially the Malays culture.

A Field Study on the Determination of the Credit Card Users’ Awareness Of the Products/Services Offered with Credit Cards: Turkey Case

Reaching a much more effective intelligence by means of marketing communication tools these days, the consumer also represents a new form of derivative demand for business enterprises with product differentiation strategy. Following the consumer creating a new possible target market forms a significant advantage for a business enterprise. This also brings up the new facts about the consumer’s purchasing and suggestions. The most important one of these suggestions is planning of new and innovative products in the face of growing consumer demand, and differentiation of existing products after reviewing. In order to emphasize the importance of this topic and make these innovative products discussed in an academic debate in this field, it has been aimed, in a questionnaire survey applied to 402 people, to determine the credit card consumers’ use levels and awareness of credit card users in Turkey, and of an innovative product/service applications along with the credit cards. The data conducted from this questionnaire survey considering Garanti Bankas?, Yap? Kredi Bankas?, Akbank, ?? Bankas? credit card users was processed in One-way Anova and Logistic Regression analysis. According to the results conducted, Akbank card users compare to other bank card users, in terms of product / services awareness, have a higher level of awareness; income, gender, the variables such as duration and amount of card use were found to be statistically significant in terms of logistic regression models.

A Gestão do Design no gerenciamento do processo de novos produtos: Design Estratégico, Propriedade Intelectual e Certificação aplicados em um brinquedo pedagógico

This article has as objective to consider a management tool and planning of new products, for a toy of pedagogical matrix, with bases in the Management of the Design and the Intellectual property rights. Of investigative nature, it possesss as method open interviews and a boarding regarding the laws of the property right. It presents as resulted, the proposal of action for the Management of Design of the pedagogical toy, by means of a visuail model of planning of projects, and the respective actions in order to validate a new product with legal protection to guarantee its legitimacy

A Gestão do Design no gerenciamento do processo de novos produtos: Design Estratégico, Propriedade Intelectual e Certificação aplicados em um brinquedo pedagógico

This article has as objective to consider a management tool and planning of new products, for a toy of pedagogical matrix, with bases in the Management of the Design and the Intellectual property rights. Of investigative nature, it possesss as method open interviews and a boarding regarding the laws of the property right. It presents as resulted, the proposal of action for the Management of Design of the pedagogical toy, by means of a visuail model of planning of projects, and the respective actions in order to validate a new product with legal protection to guarantee its legitimacy

Risk assessment of hybrid manufacturing technologies for ramp-up projects

Hybrid manufacturing technologies often provide a high potential for innovation and are not widely used in industries. Therefore the ramp-up of hybrid manufacturing technologies is a special challenge. The aim of this article is to show how hybrid manufacturing technologies can be found and evaluated. In the first part a method to identify hybrid manufacturing technology concepts for the supplementation of conventional technologies is introduced. The second part presents an evaluation of these new technologies in the context of production ramp-up projects. Thus, the optimal hybrid manufacturing technology can be chosen during the production process planning of new products.

An immune-genetic algorithm for introduction planning of new products

The introduction planning problem of new products can be described as a semi-infinite programming model with infinite constraints. To solve complex constrained optimization problems, a new immune-genetic algorithm is proposed in this paper. In this approach, first of all, some antigens are randomly generated for the production and training of antibodies. Then, an efficient immune system with the capability to recognize self- and non-self-antigens is supported by these trained antibodies. The resulting immune system is built into genetic algorithms, and they can be used to identify and repair the illegal and infeasible chromosomes during the genetic iterations. The recommended algorithm can improve the performance of genetic algorithms particularly in complex constrained optimization problems. It has been achieved satisfactory results from the new product introduction problems.

Use of the quality function deployment methodology in the development of a novel training system for cricket

The ‘quality function deployment’ (QFD) methodology, a quality system used in the planning, design, and manufacture of new products and services, has been adopted throughout the development of a novel training system for cricket. Four basic phases are contained within QFD, which are concerned with every stage of the development process, from the initial product design through to planning the production of the finalized system. The primary focus of the research presented within this paper has been the use of the ‘House of Quality’ (HoQ) product planning matrix, a tool based on the QFD approach, to understand the needs of the future system users (the ‘voice of the customer’ (VOC)), identify the technical characteristics required to fulfil the VOC, evaluate existing technologies, and manufacture a working prototype system. This prototype system has been tested extensively and has been shown to fulfil the needs of the future system users (‘customers’) more fully than those offered by the leading competitors. Further development of the prototype system is ongoing, with a view to expanding the system functionality and better fulfilling the needs of the future system users as identified in the VOC.

Custeio alvo: utilização do sistema de gerenciamento de lucro pelos fabricantes de veículos automotores com indústri no Brasil

In this study there had been researched the automobile manufactures established in Brazil, aiming to verify if the use of the Target Costing system for cost and profit planning practiced by the companies is adherent to the theory. It is an exploratory research which has used a questionnaire to obtain the data. The questionnaire was based on the steps used by Monden (1999), which should be followed by the automobile manufacturers when using the target costing system. A number of 16 companies that produce commercial vehicles to the population in general were selected, excluding the companies that produce vehicles concerned to rural areas. The analysis was shorten to 5 companies that replied to the questionnaire, making it approximately 31% of the companies, which, on the other hand are responsible for 70% of all vehicles manufactured. The conclusion is that the companies analyzed use the cost system named target costing, according to the Monden (1999) theory, and perform with great intensity during the production process and the planning of new products.