New Production Research Articles

FIRST REPORT OF PAPAYA RINGSPOT VIRUS INFECTING CARICA PAPAYA IN ARGENTINA

Fil: Cabrera Mederos, Dariel. Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria. Centro de Investigaciones Agropecuarias. Instituto de Patologia Vegetal; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas; Argentina

Biodegradability of Food Waste in Anaerobic Batch Digestion for Production of New and Renewable Energy Biogas

Biodegradability of Food Waste in Anaerobic Batch Digestion for Production of New and Renewable Energy Biogas

Effective Factors in Developing Handicrafts (Case Study: Kelash, Kurdistan Giveh)

Effective Factors in Developing Handicrafts (Case Study: Kelash, Kurdistan Giveh)

OPEN INNOVATION IN AUTOMOTIVE SMEs SUPPLIERS: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

The main goal of this study is to determine which open innovation practices can be especially useful to SMEs in the automobile sector in the development of new products and services. We aim to encourage practitioners to study and implement open innovation practices as a way of satisfying the changing needs of the market and remaining competitive. In order to do this, we describe in detail one specific open innovation practice that we consider to be a useful tool for systematizing new product development processes: joint development.

NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT CONSIDERING PRODUCT CANNIBALIZATION, DEVELOPMENT COST AND PRODUCTION COST

NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT CONSIDERING PRODUCT CANNIBALIZATION, DEVELOPMENT COST AND PRODUCTION COST

MEASUREMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF CUSTOMER SATISFACTION OF NEW PRODUCT

MEASUREMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF CUSTOMER SATISFACTION OF NEW PRODUCT

DESIGN TO CREATE A NEW PRODUCT MEANING

DESIGN TO CREATE A NEW PRODUCT MEANING

NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT WITH PYRETHRINS

NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT WITH PYRETHRINS

Global Convergence to Improve the Internal Quality Assurance for Post Graduate Engineering Programmes

In the interdependent world, the global industries have started establishing new production units in fast developing countries in Asia. They not only establish manufacturing industries but also starting research and development centers utilizing the quality of postgraduate students and research scholars. The autonomous colleges and deemed universities can develop industry relevant interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary postgraduate programs to meet the growing demands not only from the ever growing engineering colleges but also form global industries. Hence, these institutes have to consider global convergence to improve the internal quality assurance for these programs and focus on the following eight factors selected for accreditation: i) Students, ii) Program educational objectives, iii) Student outcomes, iv) Continuous improvement in program planning and implementation, v) Curriculum, vi) Faculty, vii) Facilities, and viii) Institutional support.

Developing Cereals Acceptable to Consumers for Production in New and Variable Climates

Cereals are key foods providing a significant part of the energy (calories) and protein in human diets globally. Cereals are consumed as intact grain products, such as rice, or as ground ingredients, such as wheat in breads, noodles or pasta. The dominance of cereals in human foods makes nutritional attributes of cereals important to the health of human populations. Functional traits influencing the processing or end use quality attributes of cereal based foods are key to human preferences and consumption. Adaptation of cereal crops to variable or changing climates requires that essential quality attributes are retained. Advances in cereal genomics are delivering insights into the molecular basis of nutritional and functional quality traits in cereals that will be critical to retaining essential quality traits. New genetic resources are emerging within the gene pools of the domesticated species. New species1 adapted to new or different environments may also be options for accelerated domestication to satisfy food demand. Genomic analysis of the diversity of rice genetic resource2 will provide more options for rice adaptation. New insights into the molecular genetic basis of wheat quality3 and the influence of the environment on expression of these traits will support the retention of the essential functional properties of wheat during climate adaptation. New cereals for use as whole grain or ground to flour for other food products may be based upon the traditional species such as rice and wheat but may also include new options exploiting genomics tools to allow accelerated domestication of new species.

Comparison of new and primary production models using SeaWiFS data in contrasting hydrographic zones of the northern North Atlantic

The accuracy of two satellite models of marine primary (PP) and new production (NP) were assessed against 14C and 15N uptake measurements taken during six research cruises in the northern North Atlantic. The wavelength resolving model (WRM) was more accurate than the Vertical General Production Model (VGPM) for computation of both PP and NP. Mean monthly satellite maps of PP and NP for both models were generated from 1997 to 2010 using SeaWiFS data for the Irminger basin and North Atlantic. Intra- and inter-annual variability of the two models was compared in six hydrographic zones. Both models exhibited similar spatio-temporal patterns: PP and NP increased from April to June and decreased by August. Higher values were associated with the East Greenland Current (EGC), Iceland Basin (ICB) and the Reykjanes Ridge (RKR) and lower values occurred in the Central Irminger Current (CIC), North Irminger Current (NIC) and Southern Irminger Current (SIC). The annual PP and NP over the SeaWiFS record was 258 and 82gCm−2yr−1 respectively for the VGPM and 190 and 41gCm−2yr−1 for the WRM. Average annual cumulative sum in the anomalies of NP for the VGPM were positively correlated with the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) in the EGC, CIC and SIC and negatively correlated with the multivariate ENSO index (MEI) in the ICB. By contrast, cumulative sum of the anomalies of NP for the WRM were significantly correlated with NAO only in the EGC and CIC. NP from both VGPM and WRM exhibited significant negative correlations with Arctic Oscillation (AO) in all hydrographic zones. The differences in estimates of PP and NP in these hydrographic zones arise principally from the parameterisation of the euphotic depth and the SST dependence of photo-physiological term in the VGPM, which has a greater sensitivity to variations in temperature than the WRM. In waters of 0 to 5°C PP using the VGPM was 43% higher than WRM, from 5 to 10°C the VGPM was 29% higher and from 10 to 15°C the VGPM was 27% higher.

NEW PRODUCTS

NEW PRODUCTS

Revisiting Marketing Strategies for MSMEs in the Resilient Business Environment

The growth of medium, small, and micro enterprises has been the most significant feature of a planned economy. It has a unique advantage of providing high rate of employment opportunities with lesser capital investment. The MSMEs consider the design, development, branding, and positioning of the product as the most critical decision amongst all the strategic decisions to be made while designing marketing strategies. This paper attempted to investigate the influence of marketing strategies in determining the success of an enterprise while exploring market avenues for a small scale firm. The study is based on primary data collected by using a structured questionnaire. Various statistical tools like mean, standard deviation, skewness, kurtosis, chi-square, correlation, and factor analysis had been used for data analysis. Analysis of various factors influencing the internal and external business environment suggest that market aesthetics and its market demand were the most decisive factors which influenced the decision of entrepreneurs. Henceforth, it could be summated that while designing the marketing strategies for a firm, the MSMEs made an assessment of various market factors. However, the industry requires constant upgradation of information regarding the use of newer production technology and market requirements for survival in the market and for facing the global pressures. It is suggested that the entrepreneurs should recognize the use of web portals and e-marketing and also develop cartel and clusters to build the requisite infrastructural and operational facilities to come at par with international standards.

Service Quality Improvement in the Operating Rooms Using Optimization, Problematic Solved by a Discrete Particle Swarm and Queues Simulation Approaches

The good organization of the operating rooms is the key factor to improvepatient satisfaction. The deployedoptimization methods are implemented to guarantee the operating rooms management and ensure crucial productivity increase while ensuring the quality and safety of patient care. We study in this article a day scheduling problem concerning spreading surgeries in the operating rooms. We propose a new production model akin to a manufacturer of hybrid flow shop hierarchy. Concerning the operating time data that we use in the scheduling algorithm, we model the operating time of surgical intervention using fuzzy theory and we solve the scheduling problem by exposing a new approach based on the travelling salesman problem approach and the discrete particle swarm optimization algorithm developed in C++. We develop a simulation in C + + using the management of queues to allocate different actors and necessary means which both should be available for the unfolding of this optimum scheduling and to measure the maximum of patients that can be accepted a day.

ROLE OF CAD/CAM IN DESIGNING, DEVELOPING AND MANUFACTURING OF NEW PRODUCTS

Smart CAD/CAM technologies for superior product modeling in the intelligence of designing complete product variants become more and more pertinent in future. Many design techniques to help interdisciplinary design actions in different engineering domains in addition to consequent processes have to be developed. A necessary job to achieve this aim is to permanently investigate the present state of the art, emerging trends, new approaches, in addition to industrial problems and requirements about the entire CAD/CAM area. With the aim of direct future research and development activities as close as possible to the continuously rising requirements of a worldwide market we carried out a wide-ranging national study in cooperation with one of the Germans leading CAD/CAM magazines. In this way, it became possible to reach a representative amount of users, to obtain their experience based assessments on today’s most important aspects of CAD/CAM technology. The results of this examination are summarized in this paper to give system developers, engineers, and researchers an overview of the present condition as well as to serve as a direction for decision makers in the Design and Development areas.

NEW PRODUCTS

NEW PRODUCTS

NEW PRODUCTS

NEW PRODUCTS

Consumer Adoption of New Products: Independent versus Interdependent Self-Perspectives

In five studies, the authors examine the impact of an independent (vs. interdependent) mindset on consumer adoption of new products. Study 1 demonstrates that consumers in a predominantly independent (vs. interdependent) culture are more willing to adopt really new products, whereas consumers in a predominantly interdependent (vs. independent) culture are more willing to adopt incrementally new products. Studies 2 and 3 conceptually replicate these findings using situationally activated mindsets and demonstrate that this effect is driven by the perceived fit between the product's newness level and the optimal level of distinctiveness consumers want. Finally, Studies 4a and 4b show that the presence of distinctiveness-dampening cues (i.e., popularity cues) and distinctiveness-enhancing cues (i.e., scarcity cues) can reverse the effect of self-perspective such that the independent self becomes less willing to adopt really new products and more willing to adopt incrementally new products than does the interdependent self. These findings offer practical implications for managing innovation adoption in both domestic and international marketplaces.

METHOD APPLICATION IN NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND THE IMPACT ON CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COLLABORATION AND NEW PRODUCT SUCCESS

In recent years, scholars have devoted increasing attention to the use of methods in new product development. For the first time, we examine particularly the relationship between method application, cross-functional collaboration in new product development and new product success. The analysis of more than 400 new product development projects from 201 different companies shows that applying methods in new product development leads directly to the superior financial performance of the developed product (by reducing product costs, for example) and also leads indirectly to superior cross-functional collaboration during the development project. Both effects are analysed, showing how firms can actively improve on what in some cases are very high failure rates in the development of new products.

Stochastic Modelling of Annual Rainfall at New-Bussa

This paper deals with the variations of annual rainfall in New- Bussa based on Markov Chain models. This principle was used to formulate a three state model for annual rainfall distribution in New- Bussa.The model is designed such that if given any of the three state in a given year, it is possible to determine quantitatively the probability of making transition to any other two states in the following year(s) and in the long-run. The result from the model shows that in the long-run 70% of the annual rainfall in New-Bussa will be State1, 27% will be state 2 and 3% of the annual rainfall will be State 3. The model could therefore be used to make a forecast of the annual rainfall pattern. This could provide some information for the Crop and Fish farmers, artisanal Fishermen , the Hydroelectric power generating station and the government that could be used to plan strategies to boost their production in New -Bussa and the environment.