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All manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subject to a rigorous and fair peer-review process. Accepted papers will appear online within 3 weeks followed by printed in hard copy. The journal publishes the highest quality, original papers included but not limited to the fields:
Günther Schuh, Wolfgang Boos, Fabian Gaus
In today’s times, more than ever cost competition and high demands of globalized value-adding chains put strong pressure on small- and medium-sized toolmakers. As an exclusive differentiation in price is not an option, new means for achieving sustainable comp…
Yang Hu, Xinrong Yang
The zero-time enterprise’s mission is response to the market and customer needs in “zero time” in order to gain more customers and competitive advantages. To realize zero-time response to market and customers, it should inspire the employees’ work enthusiasm…
Ruxian Li, Hongjie Lan, John R. Mawhinney
To provide a comprehensive introduction about the deteriorating items inventory management research status, this paper reviews the recent studies in relevant fields. Compared with the extant reviews (Raafat 1991; S.K.Goyal 2001), this paper reviews the recent…
Francisco Javier Miranda, Antonio Chamorro, Víctor Valero, Jesús Maestre
Football and the Internet have shown early signs of a prosperous marriage. Web sites with football content are among the most popular, with football followers and web users sharing remarkably similar demographics. Despite these compelling observations, limite…
Shuhai Fan, Xia Cao
In the early 1970s, based on single index deducted from absolute quality deviants, Genichi Taguchi proposed the quality loss module. This module builds the foundation of his three-stage design theory, e.g. system design, parameter design and tolerance design.…
R. D. H. Warburton, J. Wang, J. Burgdörfer
We study projectile motion with air resistance quadratic in speed. We consider three regimes of approximation: low-angle trajectory where the horizontal velocity, u, is assumed to be much larger than the vertical velocity w; high-angle trajectory where ; and…
M. C. Gil-Fariña, C. Gonzalez-Concepcion, C. Pestano-Gabino
Forecasting reliable estimates on the future evolution of relevant variables is a main concern if decision makers in a variety of fields are to act with greater assurances. This paper considers a time series modelling method to predict relevant variables taki…
Cheng Wang, Hailin Lan, Hongming Xie
A comprehensive model that delineates the interrelationships among social control, learning process and production innovation in international joint ventures is absent. This study aims to fill this void. Unlike previous research, this study investigates the r…
Meifang Li, Yongxiang Zhao, Feng Shi
Based on principal-agent theory, an incentive contract model of university achievements commercialization offices (UACO) was constructed in this paper, and an optimal incentive contract between university and UACO was researched into. The conclusion indicates…
Wei Deng Solvang, Moulay Hicham Hakam
A logistics network is the ‘connective tissue’ in a comprehensive supply chain and often the decisive factor for the chain’s ultimate success. Logistics networks in sparsely populated areas are facing different challenges than those that operating in relative…
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All manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subject to a rigorous and fair peer-review process. Accepted papers will appear online within 3 weeks followed by printed in hard copy. The journal publishes the highest quality, original papers included but not limited to the fields: All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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