Sanjay Sharma

This book details the various production parameters in the textile industry and discusses their influence and interaction. It also includes several examples to cover the estimation and effects of these parameters. The subject matter of this book also discusses:Economic batch quantityInclusion of stock outsInteraction of production cost with other parametersImportance of cycle timeVariation of K triggered by change in other parametersThis book is aimed at engineers, M. Tech./MBA students, and other professionals interested in learning about production and manufacturing. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan or Bhutan)

This book tackles the crucial topic of deviation and failure investigations in the pharmaceutical industry, recognizing their pivotal influence on regulatory outcomes. Extensive assessments, including analyses of US FDA warning letters and 483 reports, underscore the indispensable necessity of a robust investigation. The textbook thoroughly explores the standard tools and techniques for conducting scientifically grounded and data-driven investigations. Its overarching objective is to elucidate systematic investigation methodologies that yield effective corrective and preventive actions, ultimately reducing regulatory risks. This book offers a comprehensive overview of standard tools and techniques, focusing on science-based and data-driven approaches. Tailored for professionals in pharmaceutical manufacturing, this book is your go-to resource for mastering investigations in the manufacturing of patient-critical pharmaceutical products.

Manufacturing Parameters and Entrepreneurship provides a guide that helps business leaders understand and apply the production parameters and estimation techniques needed for commercial success. This book covers important concepts in depth, including manufacturing space, manufacturing quality, production backorders, space consideration, quality aspects, maximum inventory control, entrepreneurial application, and quality inclusion. Key features:Covers manufacturing parameters, their estimation, and effects in a single volume. Discusses conceptualization, formulation, and analysis of space consideration. Provides basic understanding and mathematical treatment of quality aspects in detail. Discusses in detail concepts such as manufacturing space, manufacturing quality, and production backorders. Covers stock out situations in detail. Manufacturing Parameters and Entrepreneurship will be an invaluable addition to the libraries of graduate students and professionals in the field of industrial engineering, production engineering, and manufacturing science and engineering.

Inventory Planning with Innovation: A Cost Focus discusses inventory planning concepts with major emphasis on innovation to reduce cost in a single volume. Provides an understanding of innovation efforts and linking it with inventory planning in reducing cost. Offers various factors influencing innovation efforts, knowledge of investment or expenditure that might be estimated before starting the innovation efforts, purchase inventory, and the manufacturing inventory. Covers important concepts including innovation efforts, strategic period, procurement inventory, total cost estimation, production inventory, related total cost planning, multiple products, multiple items procurements, and multiple items manufacture. This reference is primarily written for senior undergraduate, graduate students, and professionals in the field of industrial engineering, production engineering, and manufacturing science.

In industrial or business cases, purchasing and procurement are significant functions. Usually, a procurement plan is prepared based on certain predictions of consumption patterns or demand. When this plan is implemented, the benefit is obtained corresponding to forecast accuracy. In the available literature, forecasting accuracy is frequently discussed. A need is established to link forecasting accuracy with forecasting expenditures. After an explicit inclusion of the forecasting expenditure, this book describes inventory planning for procurement and production. FEATURES Discusses forecasting expenditure in detail Provides an analysis of reduction and increase in forecasting expenditures Highlights advanced concepts that include procurement inventory, production planning, and priority planning in detail Examines an approach in relation to the inclusion of an explicit cost of forecasting Covers total cost formulation, modified total cost, relevant index, threshold value, and cost of forecasting in a comprehensive manner with the help of examplesInventory Planning with Forecasting Expenditure is useful for undergraduate and postgraduate students in engineering and management and has potential for elective and supplementary core courses.

This reference text discusses models and analyzes cases that are useful for material requirements planning (MRP), just-in-time (JIT) environments and supply chain environments, as well as traditional production-inventory systems. It covers important concepts, including production-inventory systems, optimal purchase quantity, optimal production quantity, instantaneous procurement, multiple input items, sensitivity analysis, multiproduct manufacturing, determination of optimum cycle time, fractional backlogging, and incorporating input item procurement and flexibility in the production rate. Aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students, and professionals in the field of industrial engineering, production engineering and manufacturing science, this text: Provides detailed models/analysis pertaining to various cases which are useful for material requirements planning and supply chain environments Elaborates manufacturing rate flexibility, demand variation and production rate variation Discusses the multi-item manufacturing environment and presents models with backorders, as well as fractional backlogging Analyzes flexible production rates, along with upward and downward variations

This book presents the story of growth and change of what is still a largely unorganized food and beverage service industry in India. With the authors’ vast experience in both industry and academia, the volume provides a holistic perspective of the current status of the food and beverage industry in India and identifies the topical issues and the challenges. The authors offer an insightful discussion on where the industry is headed and how it can move from top-line driven growth to a bottom-line supported one.

Currently, there are no textbooks on drug product manufacturing technology transfer that incorporate the latest regulatory expectations. Recent guidance from regulatory bodies such as the US FDA, EMEA, WHO, and PIC/S has adopted the ICH Lifecycle approach harmonizing concepts across regulatory guidance. This allows organizations to align their technology transfer activities for all regulated markets. However, there is a need for consensus and direction in approaching technology transfer, particularly in understanding how to manage the scale-up effects to ensure regulatory compliance. This textbook offers technology transfer solutions and guidance to the pharmaceutical industry. The chapters provide a systematic understanding of applying the technology transfer concepts in pharmaceutical manufacturing, promoting standardization within the industry. Since Stage 1b is not specified in detail within the regulations, pharmaceutical organizations are left to determine the requirementsof the stage. The need to justify the methodologies and utilization of sound science makes it more demanding. The textbook’s authors provide innovative solutions for technology transfer challenges, making it a comprehensive reference document. The approaches can be applied to both small-molecule and large-molecule drug product manufacturing segments, addressing the unmet needs of the industry.

In the current climate emergency, it is no longer enough for businesses to simply employ environmental strategy typologies focused on 'greening the business' and maintaining the 'business-as-usual' logic. Gregorio Martín-de Castro and Javier Amores-Salvadó argue that disruptive business models and solutions are now required, and they propose a new regenerative strategy linking climate science to management studies. The main features of this strategy are:cutting-edge climate science solutions (capturing and utilizing atmospheric carbon dioxide to produce net-zero or net-negative emissions and positive environmental externalities) and a redefined firm purpose under an ecological, ethical and moral paradigm (integrating ecoemotional wealth, environmental performance, systemic socioecological resilience, wider stakeholder management and a very long-term perspective). They demonstrate that, by applying this strategy, companies can not only reduce their negative environmental externalities and create positive environmental externalities, but also reverse current environmental degradation through a new sustainable capitalism.

Our pursuit of material development is largely responsible for the present environmental crises. The environmentalists are demanding recognition of nature's rights to restore the environmental degradation. In the environmental discourse, we find two diverse perspectives namely- homocentric and ecocentric. The homocentric perspective holds that man's interests/rights prevail over the rest of nature. Alternatively, the ecocentric perspective emphasises that man owes a responsibility to nature. However, how to define the rights of nature is a problematic issue and this is the focal point of environmental governance. Nevertheless, it has been strongly argued by political theorists that nature has its rights, and man has a moral responsibility to protect these rights. In this context, the present book explores environmental governance in India with national and international perspectives. It questions our model of development, emphasises the right of nature, and explores environment-friendly ways of development. In the discourse of environmental governance, it critically applies relevant case studies with theoretical analysis.

This book explores the ecology of digital racism. It offers an innovative contemporary approach for understanding how people manifest racism and transform it through digital technologies. It starts by highlighting the proliferation of technologically mediated racisms, and the shortcomingsof existing accounts. Digital racism takes many forms, such as: viral memes circulating via social media platforms; the swarming of online users targeting a person of colour; the hidden bias of algorithmic sorting, or; the licentious racial profiling of policing and surveillance systems. The variance and complexity of technologically mediated racisms begs the question whether adequate attention has been paid to digital processes and environments through which race materializes (spoiler: it hasn't). Existing accounts see it as an extant 'real-world' phenomenon iniquitously amplified by digital media and communications; or in technodeterminist terms which attribute contemporary technologies as the generator of 'virtual' racisms. The book presents an analysis of digital racism by acknowledging the mutual entanglement of racism and digital technologies. It is influenced by a media ecology perspective which studies the complexity, interactivity and materiality of digital systems. This book elaborates the sociotechnical production of racism. It draws on 'assemblage theory' where digital race/racism is conceived as an emergent force constituted through the interactions of social and technical phenomena. That is, how digital assemblages – networked relations, communication platforms, interfaces, software processes, human interactions etc. – are constitutive of post-racial formations. Analyzing the conditions of digital post-raciality captures contemporary transformations of racism. Arguably, racism not only operates as a disciplinary mode of power, maintaining purity and excluding others. In a post-colonial age of technological globalization, deterritorialization, mobility and connectivity, a biopolitical racism attempts to manage difference. Overall, this book explores race/racism as informational and immaterial through interrogating its digital conditions of emergence, propagation and mutation. An analysis of networked relations, information flows, subjectivation and affects are critical to understanding contemporary productions of digital racism.