The main findings in this study suggest that at least a few variables within each of the three different groups (product features, producer and production process characteristics, and the production area) are significantly linked to the price.
Based on the open production data, the detailed production process, characteristics and future prospects are re-constructed and numerically discussed, so as to provide a general view of the production behaviors and potential prediction in this region.
A detailed contingency analysis shows that the proposed model of synergies between design and process management holds true for large and small firms; for firms with different levels of TQM experience; and in different industries with varying levels of competition, logistical complexity of production, or production process characteristics.
Nevertheless, work-related risk factors are unequally distributed across occupational groups depending on the specific nature of the work tasks and production processes, ergonomic characteristics of the workplace, psychosocial characteristics of the work environment and national and organisational occupational health policies.
'A technological regime is the rule-set or grammar embedded in a complex of engineering practices, production process technologies, product characteristics, skills and procedures, ways of handling relevant artefacts and persons, way of defining problems, all of them embedded in institutions and infrastructures' ([12], p. 340).
The design of CMSs for industrial applications is a complex and knowledge intensive process as it involves the consideration of many factors including production data and process characteristics.
Aspects discussed include metabolism and various mechanisms for PHA production by mixed cultures; kinetics of PHA accumulation and conversion; effects of carbon source and temperature on PHA production using mixed cultures; PHA production process design; and characteristics of PHA produced by mixed cultures.
The calculated averages for product and process characteristics reached an index of 3.0 for all the three farms, because they have similar products and production practices (Table 4).
Since characteristic of lightweight aggregate varies with the production plants, operation, and the raw material used in the production process, the surface characteristic, size, and pore structure of the lightweight aggregate differs from one type to the others.
Configuration design for mass customized vehicles necessitates the coordination of customer requirements, product characteristics, production processes, and logistics networks, in order to achieve rapid response to customer orders.
Based on the literature data, the process parameters were manipulated to meet known characteristics of the production process and the spirit product.
