The field of materials science and engineering is on the cusp of a digital data revolution.
After reviewing the nature of data science and Big Data, we discuss the features of materials …

In several earlier papers, the author defined and detailed the concept of a servgood, which
can be thought of as a physical good or product enveloped by a services-oriented layer that …

The slow pace of new/improved materials development and deployment has been identified
as the main bottleneck in the innovation cycles of most emerging technologies. Much of the …

At present, it is projected that about 4 zettabytes (or 10** 21 bytes) of digital data are being
generated per year by everything from underground physics experiments to retail …

A case is made for further developing a branch of systems engineering that focuses on
problems and issues which arise in the service sector. We promulgate this special focus not …

Operations research has had a long and distinguished history of work in emergency
preparedness and response, airline security, transportation of hazardous materials, and …

The outputs or products of an economy can be divided into services products and goods
products (due to manufacturing, construction, agriculture and mining). To date, the services …

Manufacturing enterprises are socio-technical systems, which necessitate overall integration
of not only the technical aspects from devices in shop-floor to enterprise resources planning …

Middle-level managers' role in business success is crucial, and the perception of middle-
level managers regarding operations-related technologies is imperative. However, previous …

Manufacturing and services constitute two of the five sectors of every country's economy;
depending on the maturity of the economy, they are—in terms of employment—typically the …