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Performance Measurement and Optimization for Sustainable Production Process Improvement—Volume II
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Performance Measurement and Optimization for Sustainable Production Process Improvement—Volume II

A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Process Control and Monitoring".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 May 2023) | Viewed by 11945

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Dr. Changhee Kim

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Business School, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, Republic of Korea
Interests: process design; data envelopment analysis; productivity measurement
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable production process improvement is extremely important for all enterprises as its implementation can help them to achieve development plans, scheduling, and reduce costs and pollution. An increasing number of papers have discussed optimization and performance measurement for improvement and benchmarking. However, few studies have examined optimization and performance analysis in terms of sustainable process improvement. For these reasons, I invite high-quality papers on optimization and performance analysis for sustainable production process improvement for consideration for publication in the Processes journal.

The scope of the Processes journal covers research in chemistry, biology, materials, and allied engineering fields. Thus, in this Special Issue, I invite articles focused on research regarding the chemistry, biology, materials, and allied engineering firms (semiconductor, steel, paper, fabric, and so on.).

The aim of this Special Issue is to publish state-of-the-art analytical, theoretical, and empirical articles related to sustainable production process improvement. The Special Issue will accept papers addressing a wide spectrum of topics, including but not restricted to:

1) Benchmarking analysis for sustainable product process improvement;
2) Optimization model for sustainable product process improvement;
3) Productivity or efficiency estimation for sustainable product process improvement;
4) Scheduling optimization for sustainable product process improvement;
5) Strategies for sustainable product process improvement;
6) Innovation for sustainable product process improvement.

Dr. Changhee Kim
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Processes is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • sustainable product process improvement
  • process performance analysis
  • optimization
  • scheduling
  • sustainable strategies
  • productivity and efficiency
  • benchmarking

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Editorial
Performance Measurement and Optimization for Sustainable Production Process Improvement—Volume II
by Changhee Kim
Processes 2023, 11(7), 2066; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr11072066 - 11 Jul 2023
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Measuring performance and optimization for improving the sustainable production process is important to achieving a development plan, sustainable scheduling, cost reduction and green operations management [...] Full article
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Good Practices Contributing to Cleaner Food Production? A Preliminary Survey Analysis Involving Wrocław-Poland Food Retail Sector
by Charles Odilichukwu R. Okpala
Processes 2023, 11(4), 1224; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr11041224 - 15 Apr 2023
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Good practices are among the direct/indirect components that influence agrofood safety knowledge, and occupying quality assurance control facets within the (agrofood) product industry. Cleaner production involves an integrated preventive environmental strategy applied to processes, products, and services, which increases overall efficiency, and reduces [...] Read more.
Good practices are among the direct/indirect components that influence agrofood safety knowledge, and occupying quality assurance control facets within the (agrofood) product industry. Cleaner production involves an integrated preventive environmental strategy applied to processes, products, and services, which increases overall efficiency, and reduces risks to humans/environment. However, ‘cleaner food production’ appears neither yet clearly defined nor well established. In this preliminary survey analysis, how good practices would contribute towards achieving cleaner food production in the context of food retail sector was performed. Specifically, Wrocław-Poland served as a case reference targeting managers/supervisors given their expected service, experience, and expertise. The sampling technique used was the judgment/purposive type, and the research instrument took the form of a questionnaire. Managers’/supervisors’ responses revealed significant differences (p < 0.05) across variables, with ‘yes’ emerging greater in most cases. Knowledge, experience, and expertise of good practices enabled the managers/supervisors connect with (some) cleaner production components. A total of 53 statistically significant correlations were found, wherein some showed perfect linear relationships. Specific to the context of (food) retail sector, the term “cleaner food production” could be defined as “the effective and efficient utilization of good practices to deliver high-quality food retail products through environmental-friendly as well as sustainable processes”. Full article
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Servitization of SMEs: Focused on the Electrical Equipment and Metal Parts Manufacturers in South Korea
by Chulok Ahn, Minjeong Oh and Sungyong Choi
Processes 2023, 11(1), 142; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr11010142 - 3 Jan 2023
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Servitization is becoming an essential strategy for manufacturers to gain competitive advantage, and several successful cases have already been reported. However, these success stories are mainly studied for large enterprises such as GE, IBM, Xerox, and Rolls-Royce. Therefore, it is difficult to apply [...] Read more.
Servitization is becoming an essential strategy for manufacturers to gain competitive advantage, and several successful cases have already been reported. However, these success stories are mainly studied for large enterprises such as GE, IBM, Xerox, and Rolls-Royce. Therefore, it is difficult to apply the cases to the servitization of SMEs, thus in this study, the status of SMEs’ servitization was examined and the applicability was studied. Among those SMEs, manufacturing of electrical equipment and basic metal parts were selected because they are related to all manufacturing industries. As a research method, companies in the relevant industry were randomly selected and CEOs, managers, and employees were interviewed. Through in-depth interviews, the company’s current servitization status in the perception of different employment levels and new servitization opportunities are analyzed. As a result of the interview, the level of servitization in the industry seems to be very low, and it seems that there are very few new servitization opportunities due to the characteristics of general SMEs, such as lack of capital and human resources. Nevertheless, companies were aware that servitization was necessary for sustainability, and they could confirm their will to take on a challenge if there was an opportunity in the future. Full article
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Bridging the Operational Efficiency Differences between Franchisors and Franchisees: A Metafrontier Approach
by Seung Beom Kim and Kanghwa Choi
Processes 2022, 10(10), 2021; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr10102021 - 7 Oct 2022
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A franchise business is a contractual relationship in which the franchisor and franchisee should cooperate to promote sustainable growth of their franchise entities. However, it is still unclear whether the relationship between franchisees and franchisors is a principal–agent or a business partner sharing [...] Read more.
A franchise business is a contractual relationship in which the franchisor and franchisee should cooperate to promote sustainable growth of their franchise entities. However, it is still unclear whether the relationship between franchisees and franchisors is a principal–agent or a business partner sharing a business goal. Thus, this study is a first attempt to investigate the relationship between franchisees and franchises using metafrontier and bootstrap DEA from the perspective of efficiency. We measured the efficiency of coffee franchises in Korea, which have grown rapidly in recent years despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the bootstrap DEA results, there was a statistically significant difference in efficiency between franchisors and franchisees under the variable return-to-scale assumption. While the main cause of inefficiency in premium coffee chains is attributed to scale inefficiency, most franchisees have pure technological inefficiency. Thus, coffee franchisees can improve the operational efficiency by adjusting their business scale and reallocating service resources. This study demonstrates tailored operational plans to improve the operational efficiency of premium and mainstream coffee franchises and offers strategic initiatives to decrease the difference in efficiency between franchisors and franchisees. Full article
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Productivity Improvement Using Simulated Value Stream Mapping: A Case Study of the Truck Manufacturing Industry
by Fikile Poswa, Olukorede Tijani Adenuga and Khumbulani Mpofu
Processes 2022, 10(9), 1884; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr10091884 - 17 Sep 2022
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The accumulation of process waste in the production line causes fluctuations, bottlenecks, and increased inventory in workstations disrupting process flow. In this paper, the optimal process flow that will improve productivity using simulated value stream mapping (SVSM) for decision-making to provide consistency, minimise [...] Read more.
The accumulation of process waste in the production line causes fluctuations, bottlenecks, and increased inventory in workstations disrupting process flow. In this paper, the optimal process flow that will improve productivity using simulated value stream mapping (SVSM) for decision-making to provide consistency, minimise errors and non-value adding times in the implementation phase of VSM in the truck manufacturing industry. The proposed methodology applied a discrete event simulation for production process operations improvement to eliminate non-value adding times and provide good quality products at the lowest cost and highest efficiency. The results are the analysis of the current state of the production system in a South African truck manufacturing industry as a potential solution for the production system’s future state. The identified non-value adding times in the six most critical workstations were eliminated by SVSM resulting in a productivity improvement of 4%, most importantly bringing the productivity to 95% and total cycle time improvement to 451 for small units and 466 for large units. The results proposed combined VSM and simulation techniques based on empirical data from the observation during time measurement. The Yamazumi confirms the issues observed and the NVA recorded by showing how close the process cycle times are to the TAKT time, which enhance the LEAN application by DES to increase productivity and performance improvement to remain competitive in the global economy. Full article
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