Is Agripreneurship a Mitigating Measure for Agricultural Issues in India ?

The agriculture sector is considered the mainstay of Indian economy because it is a significant source of raw materials for industries and demands for many industrial products particularly fertilizers, pesticides, agriculture implements, and a variety of consumer goods. Agriculture takes up new scope and shape and is no longer the customary cultivation of crops and nurturing of animals or an enterprise for the rural people. Agripreneurship may be defined as the amalgamation of agriculture and entrepreneurship. It is the choice to assimilate in the quest to make agriculture an enterprise of adjuration in contemporary business engagements. If agriculture must alter from its largely sustenance status to becoming a competitive enterprise in the gauging of entrepreneurs, incorporation of business concepts in maneuvering issues of agriculture is the way to go. The present study is a review work engrossed in using agribusiness to boost job creation and raise productivity and the income bases of farmers.

SALES FORECAST FOR AGGREGATE PLANNING: CASE STUDY OF AN INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS COMPANY IN MEXICO

This case study presents the analysis through the use of sales estimation tools for planning demand for aggregate level as a finished product in a leading industrial products company in the market in Mexico. First, it aligned the demand plan and the supply plan, recommending the best execution scenario to increase operational efficiency and reduce the cost of operating the supply chain to increase the company's productivity and stay competitive. Then, after analysing the behaviour of the demand for selected products, the authors determined as the main affectation the inadequate precision of the method forecasting and the lack of an aggregate forecasting strategy that allows reducing the variation. Due to this, the most significant effort was concentrated on determining a better-forecasting model and the decision to aggregate the demand based on three relevant criteria: the demand pattern based on the Soft, Intermittent, Erratic or Irregular quadrant, the best method of the forecast for each product and the time in quarters. As a result, a reduction between 20% and 46% in the forecast variation can be obtained from the above.

SELECTION OF FREE PARAMETER FOREL-2 ALGORITHM IN THE PROBLEM OF AUTOMATIC GROUPING OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS BY HOMOGENEOUS PRODUCTION BATCHES

Исследуется проблема влияния полуавтоматического подбора свободного параметра в задаче автоматической группировки промышленной продукции по однородным производственным партиям полупроводниковых приборов, основанной на модели FOREL-2 для задач p-медиан и k-средних. The author considers the problem impact of semi-automatic selection free parameter in the problem of automatic grouping of industrial products by homogeneous production batches based on the FOREL-2 model. We provide a comparative automatic grouping quality assessment results with models of FOREL-2, p-median and k-means.

Shifts in the geographical and commodity structure of production and world export of high-technology industrial products with different R&D intensity

The industrialisation of the world economy continues to develop not only at the expense of economically developed, but also at the expense of developing countries. This leads to a spatial regrouping of forces in the architecture of world industry at the regional and global levels. Changes can be traced both in production and in trade in products of hightechnology industries. The purpose of the study is to characterise modern processes in the global manufacturing industry, to show the changing role of regions in the world industry and world trade in products of knowledge- and technologyintensive (KTI) industries with varying degrees of research and development (R&D) intensity, to identify the role of a new leading region, as well as the positions of China and other countries. In the course of the research, Asia’s stable leadership in the production and export of products of high-technology industries with varying degrees of R&D intensity was established. It is shown that at present the Asia region is the leader, first of all, due to the industrial development of China, the share of which is about 30 % in the production of products of the world manufacturing industry. At the same time, the share of China in the manufacturing industry of the Asian region (the modern leader of the world industry) exceeds 50 % (as well as in the trade in industrial products of the countries of this region) already. China came out on top in the export of all groups of high-technology goods with varying degrees of R&D intensity, including in the export of high-technology goods with high R&D intensive (23 and 20 % of world exports, respectively). China is the leader in the production (26 %) and export (12 %) of high-technology goods with medium-high R&D intensity also. The strengthening of the position of the Asian region in the world industry and world trade of knowledge- and technology-intensive goods in the second decade of the 21st century is revealed.

BALANCE OF COMPETITIVE CONDITIONS IN UKRAINE: STATE OPTIONS

The article is considered the problem of achieving a balance of competitive forces between real and potential domestic and foreign producers of industrial products in the internal market of Ukraine. It was described the market reforms in Ukraine from the stand­point of balancing competitive conditions on the example of mechanical engineering goods. It was identified the factors that would facilitate ensuring the balance of competitive forces in Ukraine. It was proposed the measures for balancing the competitive conditions manu­facturing enterprises due to the intersectoral diversion of capital and involvement the state in investing in high-tech projects.

Examination of traditional fermented food consumption and product awareness of university students in Istanbul, Turkey

Background: Traditional fermented foods (TFF), which display positive effects on health, constitute a part of the traditions of a region and have continuity over many years. Familiarity with a product and the naturalness of food are positively associated with general attitudes toward traditional food consumption. Aims: To determine university students’ awareness and consumption of TFF and related factors in Turkey. Subjects and Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, the faculties of Marmara University were stratified between January and June 2019, and a questionnaire on TFF consumption and related knowledge and attitudes was administered to 1,233 volunteer students selected using the random sampling method. The normality of data distribution was checked with the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, and the data were analyzed with the chi-square test. Results: The students were familiar with the majority of TFF, with the most common being yoghurt (91.8%) and cheese (88.7%), while hardaliye (27.1%) and olives (27.1%) were less known TFF products. The majority of the students (60.7-99.2%) consumed cheese, yoghurt, pickled olives, pickle, soudjouk, tarhana, vinegar, and butter. The TFF were habitually consumed as industrial products, except tarhana, pickle, and yoghurt. It was also determined that the TFF consumption did not change according to the season in 76.4% of the students, and it was affected by the consumption of parents, whether they lived with their family or alone (p < 0.05). Conclusions: The students showed high awareness of TTF consumption, which was influenced by parent’s consumption and lifestyles. To ensure the continuity of TFF consumption, positive attitudes and behaviors must be maintained. Keywords: Consumption, familiarity, fermented foods, industrial products, Turkey.

Universal Model to Support the Quality Improvement of Industrial Products

Improving the quality of industrial products quality still is a challenge. Despite using quality control, there is a constant need to support this process to achieve an effective, precise, and complex analysis of product quality. The purpose was to develop a universal model that supports improving the quality of products via the consistent and repetitive determination of the causes of product incompatibilities and actions leading to their elimination; the model can be integrated with any quality control of the product. The model verification was carried out for the incompatibility of the mechanical seal in alloy 410, in which the porosity cluster was identified by the fluorescence method (FPI). The purpose of the analysis was created by the SMART(-ER) method. Then, a team of experts was selected from which the brainstorming (BM) was realized. After the BM method, the source of incompatibility and initial causes were identified. Then, the Ishikawa diagram (according to rule 5M + E) was developed to group the initial causes. Next, during the BM method, the main causes were selected. In the last stage, the 5Why method was used to determine improvement actions, i.e., adjust clotting parameters, introduce the obligation to undergo periodic training, and set aside a separate place for storing the electrodes. Originality is the combination of selected quality management tools in a coherent model, the main aim of which is to identify the main causes of incompatibility and improvement actions. Additionally, this model is universal and has applications with analyzing any product and the causes of its incompatibility, and it can be integrated with any product quality control. Therefore, the model can be useful for improving the quality of products in any enterprise.

A Preliminary Experimental Study on the Workers’ Workload Assessment to Design Industrial Products and Processes

The human-centered design (HCD) approach places humans at the center of design in order to improve both products and processes, and to give users an effective, efficient and satisfying interactive experience. In industrial design and engineering, HCD is very useful in helping to achieve the novel Industry 5.0 concept, based on improving workers’ wellbeing by providing prosperity beyond jobs and growth, while respecting the production limits of the planet as recently promoted by the European Commission. In this context, the paper proposes an ergonomic assessment method based on the analysis of the workers’ workload to support the design of industrial products and processes. This allows the simultaneous analysis of the physical and cognitive workload of operators while performing their tasks during their shift. The method uses a minimum set of non-invasive wearable devices to monitor human activity and physiological parameters, in addition to questionnaires for subjective self-assessment. The method has been preliminarily tested on a real industrial case in order to demonstrate how it can help companies to support the design of optimized products and processes promoting the workers’ wellbeing.