Essays Tagged: "manufacturing sector"
The Petrochemical Industry in Singapore - Ways to Improve Safety
Development Board (EDB, 1998), the petrochemical industry is an essential component of Singapore's manufacturing sector. Basically, this industry specialises in the production of organic chemicals, w ... al industry is one of the most important industries in Singapore, contributing to almost 20% of the manufacturing sector's total production (EDB, 1998). According to the Petrochemical Corporation of S ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Vietnamese overseas workers in Taiwan.
jobs. As a result, foreign labor from Thailand, Indonesia, Philippine and Malaysia are welcomed in manufacturing, construction and other home services like maids and care-givers.At the beginning, Tai ... , Taiwan market is very potential because its basic salary is as high as 45.6% of average salary in manufacturing sector, much higher than 36.00% of Japan and 23.96% of Korea.2. Vietnamese workers in ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
There has been an 'information revolution', this will have and is having profound social consequences;
productivity, that is the service sector has become the focus of economic growth, outstripping the manufacturing sector. New kinds of work have replaced old, new regions expanding, often at the expen ... n economy built on the foundations of technology, our quest for 'knowledge know how' detrimental to manufacturing. However the term revolution suggests dramatic and sudden change. I am more inclined t ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies
Manufacturing industry in crisis Why has manufacturing sector plunged into a decline?
Manufacturing industry in crisisThe manufacturing sector has been in recession since January 2001 wi ... anufacturing sector has been in recession since January 2001 with outputs declining month by month. Manufacturing is about making products from raw materials by hand or machinery. There is sometimes c ... als by hand or machinery. There is sometimes confusion about which companies belong to the troubled manufacturing sector or to the service industry which support manufacturers and sometimes even sprun ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Economy of China
f world trade, brought deflation to the door of North America and made a huge swathe of the world's manufacturing sector obsolete. In April, a company by the name of Noranda Inc. shut ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
A report examining the various marketing channels in the tourism sector and the changes that have taken place in them after the advent of information technology.
ism will only increase in the future. This is because there is a continuing economic shift from the manufacturing sector to the services sector. Due to terrorism, governments are putting greater empha ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Western Europe and Russia, 1450-1750.
remaining an agricultural society, the West became very commercially active and developed a strong manufacturing sector. Many of the core areas of the West transformed; governments increased their po ... tcome of these agricultural advances and the growth of international commerce stimulated the use of manufacturing. Capitalism, or the investment of funds in hope of larger profits, also broadened from ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Activity Based Costing.
cs of universities that make for special challenges.The report discusses the various changes in the manufacturing sector with regard to the introduction of ABC and shows how this method can be employe ... rsity control its costs.TABLE OF CONTENTSTABLE OF CONTENTS 1INTRODUCTION 2MAIN BODY 2CHANGES IN THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR WITH REGARD TO THE INTRODUCTION OF ABC 2HOW ABC MAY BE EMPLOYED IN A HIGHER EDU ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting
Outsourcing and its Effects on Business.
irm in order to stay competitive. Outsourcing is not new to the business world, as it dominated the manufacturing sector the past couple of decades. By the 1990's, there has been a major shift from ou ... ICAL BACKGROUND OF OUTSOURCINGOutsourcing has been occurring for decades and has using affected the manufacturing sector in the past. Since cheap manual labour was available overseas, corporations bec ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Forecasting falling jobless rate in Arkansas
Arkansas' unemployment rate should drop as the state replaces jobs lost in the manufacturing sector with service-sector jobs, a university economist says. The quarterly forecast b ... ob Recovery," Shelnutt says Arkansas, like the rest of the country, is slowly recovering from major manufacturing job losses. His report said revised figures for 2003 show a job loss of 0.2 of 1 perce ... 6.2 percent in 2003 to 5.3 percent in 2004, Shelnutt said. No job gains are expected in the state's manufacturing base, with the increase coming in the service sector, such as retail sales, where pay ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics
Quality Management and Productivity: Total Quality Management(TQM) Survey Paper
Management (TQM) within each of the organizations/sectors.The organizations of focus represent the manufacturing sector, service sector, and the non- profit sector. Each of these economic sectors has ... their sector.The first organization of focus is Sunny Fresh Foods, Inc. (SFF) which represents the manufacturing sector. Sunny Fresh Foods, Inc. (SFF), headquartered in Monticello, MN, manufactures v ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
South African Manufacturing sector
Rise of South African Manufacturing sectorThe South African manufacturing sector emerged at a time when new investment in ... to a large extent, by imports. The stage was thus set for South Africa to shift its development to manufacturing, whereby producers could take full advantage of the opportunities for profitable impor ... ll advantage of the opportunities for profitable import substitution. By the mid 60's South African manufacturing was at an all time high accounting for both the MVA and the GDP growth rates peaking, ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Development Studies
Total Quality Management (TQM) Survey Paper
ates to quality.Total Quality Management (TQM) Survey PaperThe organizations of focus represent the manufacturing sector, non-profit service sector, and the government sector. Each of these economic s ... tegies towards TQM based on their customer needs and their level of development within their sector.ManufacturingThe first organization of focus which represents the manufacturing sector is MESA Produ ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
Total Quality Management Survey
agement (TQM) within each of the organizations. The organizations focused in this paper represent a manufacturing sector, a service sector, and a nonprofit sector. Each sector has different values in ... and final organization of focus is Pacific Coast Feather Company. This organization will cover the manufacturing sector. The Pacific Coast Feather Company was founded in 1924 with the corporate offic ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Total Quality Management Survey
agement (TQM) within each of the chosen organizations.The organizations of focus will represent the manufacturing sector, service sector, and government sector. Each of these sectors has different val ... different views are established through customer needs and the level of growth within their sector.ManufacturingThe first organization of focus, which represents the manufacturing sector, is Medrad, ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
Total Quality Management
dardization's ISO 9000 series. TQM can be applied to any type of organization; it originated in the manufacturing sector and has since been adapted for use in almost every type of organization imagina ... s internal and external customers. The company ensures that products are safe, pure, effective, and manufacturing processes are subject to strict Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP). Furthermore, the co ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Work force
s." Obviously, the effect of the computer revolution and re-engineering of the workplace in manufacturing sector is more than elsewhere. In this article, management consultant Peter Drucker es ... than elsewhere. In this article, management consultant Peter Drucker estimates that "employment in manufacturing is going to continue dropping to less than 12 percent of the U.S. workforce in the nex ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics
PepsiCo
and Beverage industry. The U.S. food and beverage industry sector (SIC 20) is the nation's largest manufacturing sector at $321 billion and it is mature and developed. Additional growth in the food a ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
What is a Sweat Shop?
ies where sweatshops are found forbid the practice of trade unionization.Some sweatshops persist in manufacturing enclaves in the United States and other developed countries -- for example, the garmen ... ample, has always produced the majority of its goods in the U.S. but threatened to move 75% of this manufacturing to Mexico last year in response to Department of Labor citations and highly publicized ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics
COUNTRY X ECONOMY REPORT OF 2ND QUARTER 2007.
component that contributes to positive growth are infrastructure project and civil engineering. The manufacturing sector, which shares 30.4 percent of the economy, has growth by 1.5 %, a slower growth ... nsion in the domestic economic activities. There has being a growing employment in the services and manufacturing sectors but the undergraduate unemployment is increasing significantly and a continuin ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Economic History