Purpose: Continuous process improvement is a hard problem, especially in high variety/low volume environments due to the complex interrelationships between processes. The purpose of this paper is to address the process improvement issues by simultaneously investigating the job sequencing and...

Maintenance in Indian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is regarded as a capital-extensive approach rather than profit-making approach. The position of management is held by the owner himself in most of the Indian organizations and management always thinks to optimize the overall expenditure...