Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce a method of the bottleneck detection for Emergency Department (ED) improvement using benchmarking and design of experiments (DOE) in simulation model. Design/methodology/approach – Four procedures of treatments are used to represent ED...

Dry sowing is the practice of sowing a crop into a dry seed bed before the autumn rains. This is in contrast with the traditional practice of wet sowing where seed is placed into a moist seed bed following a rainfall event in autumn. We evaluated the putative benefits and risks of dry sowing for...

The increasing demand for customization, reduced time to market and globalization are the real challenges fortoday’s manufacturing enterprises (MEs). Therefore MEs can reduce these competitive pressures by becoming moreand more change-capable. The agile and lean manufacturing philosophies must...