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Liliana Georgeta Popescu
Study on the opening of a new working place in Romania of an European expedition house
The present paper aims to carry out the case study on the possibility of opening a new working point of Englmayer Spedition GMBH in Dolj County. Starting from the current situation of Sibiu’s work point and based on the results of the measurements, the necessity of opening a new working point is demonstrated. Englmayer is a transport and delivery company headquartered in Austria, with many work points in Europe including 5 terminals in Romania. The case study includes the presentation of the current situation on the Sibiu work point, followed by the calculations required to highlight the need to open a new work point in Dolj county. This new working point will take over part of the daily wo…
Continuous improvement of the quality management system within an automotion company in Romania
Abstract In this article, the authors present a case study on the methodology used in the process of continuous improvement of the performance of the quality management system, carried out in a company belonging to the field of production of devices and automation systems. To start this process, the internal audit subsystem and the analysis process performed by the management were first streamlined. In order to improve the non-compliant processes, within the quality management system an improvement strategy was established based on the stages of the 6 sigma methodology, namely the DMAIC model. Following the application of the methodology proposed by the authors, improvements of the processe…
Study regarding the improvement of the postage transport system in the city of Sibiu
This paper presents a study on the improvement of postal system in the city of Sibiu where there are a number of three post offices that serve a number of eight counters, to which are added the distribution point and the collection point. Each post office has a well-established work schedule that differs from one office to another. The transport of postal items between the counters / post offices within the municipality of Sibiu and the collection office, must be done on a certain route, in order to respect the work schedule of each office and to take into account a number of restriction factors. In order to streamline the process of collecting and distributing postal items in Sibiu, 6 rout…
Study on New Product Development, by Networking
The paper presents a situation of working in network in order to design or improve a new product. To implement theoretical models and to validate a working algorithm into a virtual research, there was proposed a specific theme from drilling and chamfering tool. The facilities offered by the research centers – database, software - led to rapid selection and configuration solutions, demonstrating achieving research productivity growth and a substantial reduction of times redesign.
University and non-formal education
Young students place great importance on their personal, professional and educational development alike but in the same time are actively involved in leisure activities. Through non-formal and informal activities the university can help students to develop new skills, can change or increase certain preferences regarding cultural consumption, sports and recreational activities. This paper presents the results of a study based on students attending universities across three cities. It aims to demonstrate that during the years spent at university, students are significantly less influenced by their parents in terms of behaviour and cultural preferences; instead these aspects as well as recreat…
General model for boring tool optimization
Optimizing a tool (and therefore those for boring) consist in improving its performance through maximizing the objective functions chosen by the designer and/or by user. In order to define and to implement the proposed objective functions, contribute numerous features and performance required by tool users. Incorporation of new features makes the cutting tool to be competitive in the market and to meet user requirements.