Internal Process Risk Management: A Proposed Conceptual Framework for Electronic Design Industry Process Gap

Risk management is a crucial element in every industrys operational supply chain as the impact of turbulence in the form of uncertainty is drastic. Many researchers have published theories and frameworks defining Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) as there are gaps in the application definition gap, process gap, and methodology gap. This paper identifies the process gap in electronic design industry and proposes a modified framework adopted from Sodhi, Son and Tang (2012) to contribute in formulating a framework to define, operationalize and mitigate internal process supply chain risk management. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we categorize the detailed review with electronic design internal supply chain process. Second, we analyze and develop a framework with expected results upon completing the SCRM process throughout each internal process. Keywords Risk management, process gap, micro risk, uncertainty, supply chain risk managemen

Designing and managing ERP systems for virtual enterprise strategy:a conceptual framework for innovative strategic thinking

The business environment today is transforming towards a collaborative context compounded by multi-organizational cooperation and related information system infrastructures. This chapter aims to examine Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems development and emerging practices in the management of multi-organizational enterprises and identify the circumstances under which the so-called ‘ERPIII' systems fit into the Virtual Enterprise paradigm; and vice versa. An empirical inductive study was conducted using case studies from successful companies in the UK and China. Data were collected through 48 semi-structured interviews and analyzed using the Grounded-Theory based Methodology (GTM) to derive a set of 29 tentative propositions which were then validated via a questionnaire survey to further propose a novel conceptual framework referred to as the ‘Dynamic Enterprise Reference Grid for ERP (DERG-ERP)'; which can be used for innovative decision-making about how ERP information systems and multi-organizational enterprises – particularly the Virtual Enterprise may be co-developed

Sensor Systems for Corrosion Monitoring in Concrete Structures

It is a need of permanently embedded corrosion monitoring devices to monitor the progress of corrosion problems on a new or existing reinforced concrete structures before embarking on repair or rehabilitation of the structures. Numerous devices are available for investigating corrosion problems, because no single technique exists which tells an engineer what he needs to know, namely how much damage there is on a structure now and how rapidly the damage will grow with time. In this investigation the studies on the sensors systems based on the measurements of half cell potential of rebars inside the concrete, resistivity of concrete, corrosion rate of rebars by eddy current measurements and sensing of chloride ions are reported. An integrated system consists of above sensors are fabricated and embedded into concrete. The response from each sensor was acquired and analyzed by NI hardware through LabVIEW software