The NanoMQL technique is used to overcome the limitations of wet grinding due to economic and ecological problems. The performance measure is largely influenced by the process parameters such as table speed, depth of cut, air pressure, coolant flow rate and nanofluid concentration. In this paper, the performance of NanoMQL technique in terms of surface roughness was evaluated for hard and soft EN31 steel. The Experiments were conducted by response surface methodology (RSM) using statistical software to develop regression model of surface roughness and optimization was carried out using Jaya algorithm. The result shows that lowest value of surface roughness was obtained for NanoMQL of hard steel in comparison with soft steel under grinding environ-ments such as wet, MQL and NanoMQL. Hence to improve the performance of soft steel, the modeling and optimization of surface roughness were carried out. The significant parameters were considered for model development and validity of model determined through ANOVA (Analysis of variance). Lastly, the optimal values were determined using Jaya algorithm for minimum surface roughness and the percentage error observed to be close with the experimental test.

WEDM has evolved as a well admired technique for machining of difficult to cut materials such as superalloys. WEDM produces intricate shape and profiles of superalloys by thermoelectric erosion process. But as the process is carried out at very high temperature, the formation of heat affected zone, microcracks, recast layer, porosity etc. resulted in decreased surface integrity of machined specimen and becomes a big problem in WEDM. Discharge energy is the most influencing param-eters that affect the surface integrity of WEDmed samples. In this study, Inconel 825, widely used in aerospace industry for making of combustor casing and turbine blades, was machined with WEDM under different discharge energy. The surface topography of the WEDMed specimen was carried cut by using SEM, XRD and EDX techniques. It was observed from the SEM micrograph that the machined surface includes cracks, pockmarks, craters, and pulled out material. The density and sice of craters increase with increase in discharge energy. Surface crack density of 0.0138 μm/μm2 and recast layer thickness of 34.62μm was obtained for the machined sample at high value of discharge energy while at low value surface crack density of 0.0016 μm/μm2 and recast layer thickness of 20.99μm was observed. EDX and XRD analysis of the specimen showed that an ap-preciable amount of elements viz. Fe (Ferrous), Cr (Chromium), Cu (Copper), Ni (Nickel) are mi-grated to the surface of the workpiece at high value of pulse on time.

This study aims to determine the effect of advertising exposed by Lazada Indonesia on Facebook toward online purchase intention among the youth in Aceh, particularly the students of Syiah Kuala University. This study uses the Hierarchy-Effect Model to determine the advertising impact. This study used a simple linear regression test. The data were collected through a survey on 155 respondents selected using quota sampling technique from the 12 faculties of Syiah Kuala University. The results of simple linear regression analysis show that the exposure of advertising posted by Lazada Indonesia on Facebook significantly influenced the online purchase intention of Syiah Kuala University students with the impression of 73.2%. The higher the exposure of Lazada advertising on Facebook, the higher the online purchase intention of Syiah Kuala University students.

In recent time, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been a critical item on the agenda for many business firms. Organizations now go beyond their economic obligations and are particular-ly meticulous in considering and assessing the impact of their activities on the environment. The objectives of the study are to examine the effect of Environmental focused CSR activities on cor-porate image and also to investigate the effect of Ethical CSR activities on Customer Relation. 240 copies of questionnaire were administered to Nigeria brewery staffs in Ogun State, Nigeria to get primary data that treated and tested appropriate research questions and hypotheses accordingly. The study adopted survey method and Cronbach Alpha for test retest reliability. The study found out that there was a significant relationship between ethical activity and customer relations and the relationship between environment activities and corporate image was significant. The study recommends the managements should ensure they plan strategically to enhance corporate social responsibility.

This research intends to formulate a new system for the promotion of online news in Indonesia. By using Information System Success Model (DeLone and McLean), this study develops a new system for promoting news through social media. The study focuses on journalistic work with Ethnographic methods from James Spardley. After doing Ethnographic research, this study pro-vides a comprehensive system, which can be used for all online mass media in order to promote the news to get the maximum number of readers.

This study explores the role of organizational culture (OC) in the relationship between entrepre-neurial orientation (EO) and Bangladeshi small and medium enterprises (SMEs) performance. Their relationship obtains a substantial scholarly attention, however very few empirical studies have been conducted among Bangladeshi SMEs. Generally, SMEs contribute to the economy through employment generation, poverty reduction, innovation, social cohesion, and so on, which in turn contribute to the growth domestic product (GDP) of Bangladesh. Hence, SMEs are considered as a key reactor of economic growth in Bangladesh. Grounded on the literature and theoretical fact, a model was developed and intended to examine this relationship. A quantitative survey technique was exercised and the data were collected from the randomly selected 384 owners of SMEs in Dhaka–Bangladesh. The data were analyzed by using SEM-AMOS. Based on the statistical results, EO and OC were significantly related to SME performance and OC was found to mediate the relationship between EO and SME performance. This study will help entrepreneurs as well as policy makers make better decisions for maximizing SME performance through improving OC in the competitive global economy.

This research presents a new bi-level bi-objective production-routing-inventory model for a medi-cine supply chain. In this case, the production is executed by multi-separated producers in a multi-production line for different kinds of medicines which will be saved in stores for delivering to cus-tomers. The capacitated vehicle routing problem is considered in designing a distribution system from stores to customers. The goal of this model is to make a suitable trade-off between the customer satisfaction and the budget cost. This problem has been formulated in a bi-level form where the first objective function is the minimization of the budget during the scheduled time and the second one is the minimization of the shortage amount associated with the lost sale of medicine demands delivering to drug stores. Uncertainty is considered as a nature of the main parameters of the problem. Then the robust approach was used to handle the associated uncertainty of related parameters and the resulted problem is solved by Benders decomposition algorithm. The results indi-cate that the model make an improvement in medicine supply chain.

The simultaneous scheduling decisions between production systems and material handling systems are highly significant for a substantial reduction in makespan and improvement in throughput of flexible manufacturing system resources. In the absence of appropriate scheduling of production resources, the optimum utilization of FMS resources is not harnessed which turns into wastage of resources. In the present study, investigations are carried out for the sustainable multi-objective scheduling of automatic guided vehicle and flexible manufacturing system by the application of a grey wolf optimization algorithm (GWO). Initially the Giffler and Thompson (GT) algorithm [Giffler, B., & Thompson, G. L. (1960). Algorithms for solving production scheduling problems. Operations research, 8(4), 487-503.] along with four different priority hybrid dispatching rules (PHDRs) are applied for the development of the production center schedule thereafter the grey wolf optimization algorithm is applied for the yield of the sustainable multi-objective schedul-ing of automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) and the FMS together with an objective to minimize the total distance travel and number of backtracking of cruising automatic guided vehicle in the U type flexible manufacturing system facility. The applied methodology is evaluated by conducting computational experiments on a benchmark flexible manufacturing system configuration considered from the literature. The results obtained from the computational experiments clearly show that the proposed application of grey wolf optimization algorithm outperforms the other applied procedures in the literature.

Turning is the utmost elementary process among several CNC machine tool operations which is a versatile, efficient and widely used in industries including mechanical, aerospace and automotive sectors. Most frequently the manufacturing industries face the problem of cutting down the production cost without any oblation in the quality of products. Selection of process parameter is essential for assuring a quality product. Convenient choice of the cutting conditions, parameters and tools for the maximum Material removal rate (MRR) and surface finish needs a sophisticated approach adopting mathematical and statistical models as well as experimental method. Taguchi’s method is a very compelling tool to optimize the process variables. The intention of the present study is to determine surface roughness (Ra) and MRR which are key responses to justify the quality of turning operation. Four process parameters have been selected viz. Nose radius (NR), depth of cut (DOC), feed rate (FR) and spindle speed or cutting speed (CS) that influences these responses. During machining operations, the influence of the process parameters and their interac-tion have been analyzed using a statistical tool ANOVA. Aluminum alloy is widely acceptable by industries owing to its good strength to weight ratio, high resistance to corrosion, malleability and excellent resistance during elevated temperatures.

The purpose of the current study was to investigate the determinants of small and medium manu-facturing enterprises’ export performance empirically in the context of Pakistan. The study adopted survey method to collect forty-five (45) responses from small and medium manufacturing firms through E-mail survey. The study produced four determinants of SME export performance, such as entrepreneurial orientation (EO), total quality management (TQM), business network (BN) and export market orientation (EMO). Thus, internal consistency reliability and discriminant validity were examined of the study instruments through panel expert’s opinion and the small sample size was investigated using statistical software SPSS-21 and smartPLS-3. The results of the study con-firmed that scale reliability and validity and moreover, current study found a positive relationship between TQM and SME export performance. On the other hand, the study also found insignificant relationship between EO, BN, EMO and SME export performance. Furthermore, the study recommended future study should validate the current study research framework on large sample size.