LEAN MANUFACTURING TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES IN THE PROCESS INDUSTRY WITH A FOCUS ON STEEL

This research addresses the application of lean manufacturing concepts to the continuous production/ process sector with a focus on the steel industry. The goal of this research is to investigate how lean manufacturing tools can be adapted from the discrete to the continuous manufacturing environment, and to evaluate their benefits on a specific application instance. Although the process and discrete industry share several common characteristics, there are areas where they are very different. Both manufacturing settings have overlap, but at the extreme, each has its unique characteristics. This research attempts to identify commonalities between discrete and continuous manufacturing where lean techniques from the discrete side are directly applicable. The ideas are tested on a large steel manufacturing company (referred to as ABS). Value stream mapping is used to first map the current state and then used to identify sources of waste and to identify lean tools to try to eliminate this waste. The future state map is then developed for a system with lean tools applied to it. To quantify the benefits gained from using lean tools and techniques in the value stream mapping, a detailed simulation model is developed for ABS and a designed experiment is used to analyze the outputs of the simulation model for different lean configurations. Generalizations of the results are also provided

A continuous model for dynamic pricing under costly price modifications

This paper presents a heuristic method to solve a dynamic pricing problem under costly price modifications. This is a remarkably difficult problem that is solvable only under very few special cases. The method is applied to a more general form of the problem and is numerically tested for a variety of demand functions in the literature. The results show that the method is quite accurate, approximating the optimal profit within usually much less than 1\%. A more important result is that the accuracy tend to be much greater as the number of price changes increases, precisely when the underlying optimization problem becomes much harder, which makes this approach particularly desirable

Islam and contemporary civilization: evolving ideas, transforming relations [Book Review]

This article reviews the book 'Islam and contemporary civilization: evolving ideas, transforming relations', by Halim Rane

Yunus Abdullah - Use of Social Media by Businesses: A New opportunity For Consulting Services by Accounting Firms

In the last 10 years, social media has been restructuring business policies and practices creating new business models. These models are shaping the internal and external aspects of businesses, improving efficiency, and hopefully yielding higher profits while reducing costs. At the same time, social media is being implemented in such internal operations as employee training, recruiting, communication within organizations, and building business loyalty. Businesses are becoming more dependent on social media, making social media an inevitable expectation of effective business models. The millennial are the new generation of adults who are taking over the business world. This generation of young adults grew up using such social media networks as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google +, and LinkedIn. To sustain good relationship with their clients (millennial), businesses must meet people\u27s expectation of the practices and plan their policies accordingly. This paper will examine how the use of social media by businesses is leading to a new service being offered by accounting firms, social media consulting. Experts in internal controls, accounting firms, will have the resources and capacity to offer services in social media consulting. The large accounting firms such as Deloitte, KPMG, Ernst &Young, and PWC have already entered social media consulting market.https://epublications.marquette.edu/mcnair_2013/1006/thumbnail.jp

PERLINDUNGAN HUKUM TERHADAP ANAK BERKAITAN DENGAN HAK PENGASUHAN SEBAGAI AKIBAT PUTUSNYA PERKAWINAN KEDUA ORANG TUANYA (Studi Kasus Putusan Mahkamah Agung Republik Indonesia Nomor 58 PK/AG/2009 tanggal 8 Januari 2010)

Perkawinan adalah ikatan lahir batin antara suami dan istri untuk membentuk keluarga yang kekal, bahagia, sakinah, mawaddah, dan rahmah. Perkawinan dilakukan menurut agama dan kepercayaannya masing-masing dan harus dicatatkan. Salah satu tujuan perkawinan adalah untuk mendapatkan keturunanan (anak). Perceraian antara suami istri melalui Pengadilan Agama sering terjadi perebutan pengasuhan anak (hadhanah) akan ikut bapak atau ibunya dan hakim yang memutuskan. Dalam penelitian ini masalah dirumuskan tentang bagaimana perlindungan hukum terhadap kepentingan anak yang belum mumayyiz menurut Putusan Mahkamah Agung Republik Indonesia Nomor 58 PK/AG/2009 tanggal 8 Januari 2010 dan bagaimana pelaksanaan putusan Putusan Mahkamah Agung Republik Indonesia Nomor 58 PK/AG/2009 tanggal 8 Januari 2010 dalam kaitannya dengan perlindungan anak .Tujuan penelitian adalah untuk mengkaji perlindungan hukum terhadap kepentingan anak menurut Putusan Mahkamah Agung tersebut dan menganalisisnya dalam kaitanya dengan penerapan ketentuan pasal 105 huruf a Kompilasi Hukum Islam. Metode penelitian yang digunakan pendekatan kasus dan memakai jenis penelitian yuridis normatif dengan menggunakan metode analisis kualitatif dari data deskriptif. Hasil penelitian diperoleh bahwa perkara Nomor 58 PK/AG/2009 tanggal 8 Januari 2010 antara Arief Djiwa Maulana bin H. Martunus, S.H. melawan Ratu Meika Betrika Binti H. Tb. Maman Haruman hakim dalam memutuskan perkara tersebut bersifat legalistik, tidak mempertimbangkan kepentingan perlindungan pengasuhan anak dan hakim mengabaikan fakta dalam persidangan bahwa anak bernama Kaysha Aurelya, lahir tanggal 30 Juli 2005, sejak kecil sampai saat ini tinggal bersama Arief Djiwa Maulana bin H. Martunus, S.H serta orang tua Arief Djiwa Maulana bin H. Martunus, S.H.. Putusan hakim bertentangan dengan kepentingan anak, sehingga tidak dapat dieksekusi karena ketika jurusita Pengadilan Agama Jakarta Barat melakukan eksekusi secara paksa anak bernama Kaysha Aurelya meronta-ronta sehingga eksekusi tidak dapat dilakukan karena dikhawatirkan akan mempengaruhi psikologi anak tersebut. Eksekusi anak sendiri melanggar prisnsip beracara. Tidak ada salahnya hakim tingkat pertama sebelum memutuskan perkara terhadap anak melihat secara langsung kedekatan anak dengan orang tuanya

Global Islamophobia: Muslims and Moral Panic in the West [Book Review]

This article reviews the book: “Global Islamophobia: Muslims and Moral Panic in the West”, edited by George Morgan and Scott Poynting

The Anthropology of Islam Reader [Book Review]

This article reviews the book, “The Anthropology of Islam Reader”, edited by Jens Kreinath

Red star over Iraq: Iraqi Communism before Saddam [Book Review]

This article reviews the book 'Red star over Iraq: Iraqi Communism before Saddam', by Johan Franzén