Grzegorz Ostasz

• Professor DSc, PhD
• Head of Department at Rzeszów University of Technology

The foundry industry consumes significant amounts of natural resources, metals, and energy, and it generates large amounts of solid waste and gases, which have a significant impact on the environment. Therefore, taking sustainability-based improvement measures in foundry companies is necessary and an important part of sustainable development for hu...

In enterprises, the management of detection methods usually refers to ensuring the identification of nonconformities. This management is incomplete and incompatible with the concept of sustainability (it ignores electricity consumption and costs). To date, no models have been developed to support the analysis of detection methods in terms of the re...

The current situation in the energy market contributes not only to the sales growth of photovoltaic panels (PV) but also to the intense search for possibilities for its improvement. The purpose of this research was to develop a model to determine, where possible, the most beneficial modifications to improve products. The model used combination tech...

Improving the quality of products remains a challenge. This is due to the turbulent environment and the dynamics of changing customer requirements. Hence, the key action is to predict beneficial changes in products, which will allow one to achieve customer satisfaction and reduce the waste of resources. Therefore, the purpose of this article was to...

Historical consciousness is a phenomenon of incorporating the past into the current social consciousness, being the sum of ideas about the past and the way of thinking about it; it also entails awareness of the existence of the past, present and future and a sense of having one's own, unique history, attributed to any given society. This study pres...

The article uses the estimation method of the center of mass to model the country’s health profile as an indicator for determining the prerequisites for the country’s readiness to combat and prevent mass diseases. The authors identified the most relevant determinants that characterized society’s social, economic, healthcare, and behavioral models....

The article describes and analyzes the main stages of Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz’s political activity– the second most important leader of socialist Cuba. The structure of the article is based on the principles of chronological narration. The conceptual basis of Raúl Castro's ideological outlook has been systematized and generalized. The article pays...

Nowadays, we are becoming more and more convinced that the educational sphere cannot be underestimated and we do not pay enough attention to its development. After all, it is responsible for the formation of a well-developed and indifferent personality both in social and environmental problems, as well as qualified workers in accordance with the mo...

The publication analyses the way of managing and improving the quality of the production process of aluminum pistons for internal combustion engines. The aim of the article is to propose a method of analysis of the effectiveness of individual control methods used in the process of controlling the aluminium piston. Thanks to the location of a contro...

Globalization and digitalization have dramatically changed higher education more than any other sphere of social or economic life. Constant flow of information and free access to all possible data, news, and topics, valuable and fake alike, imposed many challenges for the stakeholders in higher education worldwide. Lecturers and students worldwide...

The article determines the scientific and methodological prerequisites for studying the influence of the industry’s innovation potential indices on the industrial products’ revenue of Ukraine. The analysis of the main indices of industrial and technological development that influence the industry’s development is conducted. The major problems of th...

Unpredictability of the migration movements; efforts to protect the state’s territory from irregular and illegal activities; as well as tendency to fill in the gaps on the labour market in the receiving countries are only few out of many preconditions which stimulate attempts of the nation states to coordinate and influence migration on their terri...

The article is an attempt to show the role of the underground garrison of the Home Army in Rzeszów during the German occupation of 1939-1944. The garrison's preparations and tasks related to the general uprising plan in the Union of Armed Struggle-the Home Army Inspectorate of Rzeszów were reconstructed. The main tasks resulting from the planned mo...

Dbałość o wysoką jakość procesu kształcenia jest cechą charakterystyczną każdej szanującej się uczelni wyższej. Cel taki, jako najstarszej i największej uczelni technicznej w połud- niowo-wschodniej Polsce, przyświeca również Politechnice Rzeszowskiej im. Ignacego Łukasiewicza. Właściwe dobrani nauczyciele akademiccy, właściwe programy kształcenia...

The paper presents analyses of changes in the revised ISO 9001:2015 on quality management. Additionally a relatively new requirement emerged in the guidelines to a process approach,. It is the need for a systematic approach to risk assessment. In the three-year transitional period, most organizations will implement such an approach to risk assessme...

Wybór metody badań marketingowych zawsze poprzedza analiza celu projektu badawczego oraz użyteczności informacji zdobytych w określony sposób. Firmy reprezentujące sektor mikro-, małych i średnich przedsiębiorstw (MSP) często nie mogą sobie pozwolić na zastosowanie kosztownych metod badań. Jednocześnie powinny wybrać metodę najbardziej odpowiednią...

This work relies on desk research as well as authors’ own studies and it discusses selected aspects concerning the quality of life in Poland against the results presented by global organizations on the quality of life. According to our study, access to employment, social engagement and cultural offerings are the most problematic issues for people l...

W pracy przeprowadzono analizę powiązań zasad zarządzania logistycznego i zarządzania jakością z wykorzystaniem diagramu macierzowego. Wykazała ona stosunkowo nikłą obecność zasad zarządzania jakością dotyczących personelu w zasadach zarządzania logistycznego. Dlatego też na potrzeby koncepcji zarządzania logistycznego przez jakość (ZLPJ) zmodyfiko...

Food industry is probably the best proof that not every innovation serves us. The continuous technical and technological sector is accompanied by the simultaneous decline in the quality of food, often dramatic; deepening social and environmental problems of the rural environment. Corporate model of progress was not profitable for both food producer...