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The RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) technology is a well-known wireless application for traceability, logistics, and access control. It became ubiquitous in industry and our daily life (ticketing, payment, passports, car keys, etc.). RFID is nowadays a standardized technology; its inherent advantages, which are unitary, identification,...

Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRPII) is the most widespread planning method in the world. MRP and then MRPII were developed in the 1970s. It requires demand forecasts and plans all the manufacturing activities: it is a push flow method. MRPII is "a method for the effective...

You may not be promoted to a manager position but you will definitely need to plan the way your time will be spent, hence time management. If a completion date is not assigned to your project, you will likely be asked to provide one and...

Data mining is the process of knowledge discovery in datasets (Roiger, 2017). It summarizes all analysis procedures required in order to identify interesting trends and patterns within data and includes data preparation and data modeling (Gola, 2018). In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has...

The European Award of Quality (EFQM model) is a largely known model, which an institution can apply in order to implement Total Quality Management Principles in order to achieve excellence. The EFQM model consists of a set of criteria, which are mainly classified into two...

TPM TPM is composed by the first English letters of Total Productive Maintenance. Nakajima (1988), had given the original approach of TPM, defined it as the productive maintenance carried out by all employees through small group activities and can be viewed as equipment maintenance performed on...

Business Process Reengineering Business process reengineering (BPR) is identified as one of the most important solutions for organizational improvements in all performance measures of business processes. However, high failure rates 70% is reported about using it the most important reason that caused the failure is the...

The essence of benchmarking is the process of identifying the highest standards of excellence for products, services, or processes, and then making the improvements necessary to reach those standards, commonly called "best practices" (Elmuti et al, 1997). Benchmarking is a tool for improving performance. ECU defines...

ERP systems became popular with large organizations in the 1990s. In 2000, Gartner group published an article titled "ERP is dead, long live ERP" in which they argued that in near future, ERP systems will overcome the need for other specialized systems (e.g. CRM). While...