Industrial Engineering & Management

Kitaw D

Publications

• Research Article
  The Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle of Value Addition
  Author(s): Gidey E, Jilcha K, Beshah B, Kitaw DGidey E, Jilcha K, Beshah B, Kitaw D
  
  Value addition has only been measured as the difference between output and input prices and the critical roles of all functions in the process of value addition were not clearly known. Moreover, some core functions that inherently exist in the process of value addition were ignored until recently. The process of value addition and enhancement is continuous in its approach. Despite the fact that the value addition process is a continuous process, only its absolute measures were used for evaluating the intensity of value addition. Usually, value addition to a product was considered to happen only in the shop floor. In reality however, value addition is not only the responsibility of manufacturing function; rather, other functions before and after manufacturing also add significant tangible or intangible value to a product. The continuous characteristics of the value addition process can.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2169-0316.1000124

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