Purpose This paper aims to conduct a comprehensive fault tree analysis (FTA) on the critical components of industrial robots. This analysis is integrated with the reliability block diagram (RBD) approach to investigate the robot system reliability. Design/methodology/approach For practical...

Purpose – Although many papers purport the significant value attributable to supply chain performance from the use of Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR), the question of “what are the main constructs and efficient framework for successful implementation of CPFR?”...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a new mathematical model for the unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem with aging effects and multi-maintenance activities. Design/methodology/approach The authors assume that each machine may be subject to several maintenance activities...

Information technology (IT) has the potential to transform the means by which society learns and accesses information. Electronic commerce is a rapidly growing area enjoying considerable attention in conjunction with the emergence of the Information Superhighway or the building of the National...

In spite of successful research on new agricultural practices concerning crop cultivation, the majority of farmers is not getting upper-bound yield due to several reasons. One of the reasons is that expert/scientific advice regarding crop cultivation is not reaching farming community in a timely...

In general gross domestic product (GDP) is a substantial element in macro-economic analysis. Policy makers of a country use variations of GDP for long run planning. Considering different economic conditions of a country, forecasting is a useful tool to identify the variations of GDP for...