Integrated management system

ZADCO owns more than 500 wells operating in UZ, UA & ST fields to contribute in achieving the production targets as set by the Shareholders. To ensure that wells operate as designed for their assigned life (or greater) with all risks kept as low as reasonably ...

Purpose – Building on previous studies of the managerial application and development of the 5S concept (5S), this research aims to identify and present key concepts of 5S from a Japanese management perspective. These findings link 5S to aspects of Japanese management approach, which are aligned to an integrated management system rather than a simple management tool or technique. Design/methodology/approach

The aim of this research is to respond, from an empirical point of view, to the following question: "Do management systems based on standards hinder innovation processes?". In order to achieve this objective, an empirical work with the participation of 254 companies is presented here. The research was carried out in 2006 within the framework of a wider research project

Striga and cereal stemborers are major constraints to cereal production in sub-Saharan Africa causing serious food security concerns. The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) and partners have developed a novel integrated management system called the ‘push–pull’ technology (PPT) in mitigation. This involves inter-cropping maize with a stemborer moth-repellent forage legume, silverleaf desmodium (push), and planting an attractive

The purpose of this paper is to suggest an enhanced Process model with customer experience focus and its related documentation structure applicable to many industrial contexts. Since the Business Process Framework, also known as eTOM, is originally a Process Model for Telco industry and now being used broadly in many industries, ISO9001 is a historical and generic standard with customer focus, and there is always a question about how to integrate the Business Process Framework and ISO9001, the enhanced process model will be based on the integration of the Business Process Framework and ISO9001 highlighting the customer aspects to meet the current trends within Telco and many other industries. The management system, containing the organization, the processes based on this integration, and the performance management system is called an Integrated Management System (IMS). The paper focus is on the processes and its introduction is about Telco Business context since the Business Process...

Abstract: This paper describes a policy-based approach to firewall management. The Policy-Based Networking (PBN) architecture proposed by the Policy Framework Group of IETF is analysed, together with the communication protocols, policy specification languages, and the necessary information models. The paper continues with a description of an application of the PBN architecture to firewall management. The proposed architecture is presented and its implementation issues are analysed with some usage examples. The paper concludes with the evaluation of the policy-based approach to firewall management.

To understand the influence of agro-meteorological parameters to take decisions related to various factors in an integrated plant disease management, it becomes vital to carry out scientific studies on the factors affecting it. The different agro-meteorological parameters namely temperature, humidity, moisture, rain, phenological week, cropping season, soil type, location, precipitation, heat index, and cloud coverage have been considered for this study. Each parameter has been allocated the ranking by using a technique called analytical hierarchical process (AHP). The parameter priorities are determined by calculating the Eigenvalues. This helps to make decisions related to integrated plant disease management where the prediction of plant disease occurrence, yield prediction, irrigation requirements, and fertilization recommendations can be taken. To take these decisions which parameters are good indicators can be identified using this method. The parameters majorly contribute to plant diseases and pest management decision making while delivers minor contribution in irrigation and fertilizer management related decision making. The manual results are compared with software generated results which indicates that both the results correlate with each other. Therefore, AHP technique can be successfully implemented for prioritizing agro-meteorological parameters for integrated plant diseases management as the results for both levels are consistent (consistency ratio < 0.1).

The aim of this research is to respond, from an empirical point of view, to the following question: &quot;Do management systems based on standards hinder innovation processes?&quot;. In order to achieve this objective, an empirical work with the participation of 254 companies is presented here. The research was carried out in 2006 within the framework of a wider research project called &quot;Integrated Management Systems (IMS) in Spanish Companies&quot;. Study results are presented and statistically analyzed Discussion of the research findings and future work are also provided.

PurposeThe aim of this research is to respond, from an empirical point of view, to the next question: “Does management systems based on standards hinder innovation processes?”. MethodologyIn order to achieve this objective, an empirical work with the participation of 249 companies, in the framework of a research project called “Integrated Management Systems (IMS) in the Spanish companies” (SEJ2006-00682/ECON financed by the Ministry of Science and Technology within the aid program for R+D project) carried out from January to April 2006, is presented in this paper. FindingsPrincipal findings of the survey of 249 Spanish organizations registered to both the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 standards which was illustrated here are: Managers and people involved in standardized management systems gave less importance to the statement that standards hinder innovation processes, although not with a statistically-significant difference compared to the other types of managers who responded to the surv...

There is a need to develop improved analytical procedures in order to improve performance, reduce noise emission and reduce the manufacturing costs of screw compressors. Most mathematical models, used by industry for screw compressor performance estimation and optimisation, are based on quasi one dimensional calculation of the governing flow equations in a control volume. Despite being fast and accurate for