Michał Zasadzień

Silesian University of Technology · Department of Economy and Informatics

The problem of implementation of the concept of Lean Manufacturing in the ceramic industry, based on the enterprise manufacturing ceramic fancy goods, is presented in this article. The most important information about the concept of Lean Manufacturing, as well as the current state of implementation of the Lean concept in the ceramic industry. Major...

The article presents an analysis of the functioning of e-administration in municipal offices in the Silesian Province in Poland. It was evaluated by handicapped people with various degrees of disability, of different ages and different educational backgrounds. In Poland the disabled, similarly to abled-bodied people, have to take care of various of...

The article presents a concept of an IT tool, supporting knowledge transfer among people working in a facility maintenance department. The developed assumptions of the tool are a continuation of the previously conducted investigations into the current status and expectations regarding the transfer of knowledge among the employees of such a departme...

Continuous improvement should be a part of the strategy of every modern company that wishes to meet the requirements posed by the demanding, competitive market. The article presents a concept of applying a tool known from quality engineering, i.e. Shewhart control charts, for the improvement of the maintenance process in a small company providing s...

Increase in the number of orders, the increasing quality requirements and the speed of order preparation require implementation of new solutions and improvement of logistics processes. Any disruption that occurs during execution of an order often leads to customer dissatisfaction, as well as loss of his/her confidence. The article presents a case s...

An enterprise which is managed in a modern way should be based on the concept of knowledge management. It is particularly important in the case of processes related to facility maintenance, where the efficiency and effectiveness of work is directly connected with the employees’ knowledge. Improvement of processes involved in facility maintenance ha...

The article contains an evaluation of architectural barriers encountered by the disabled who use services provided by municipal offices in the Silesian Province. In the study the following research hypotheses have been formulated: 1) the type of disability has a considerable influence on the disabled client’s evaluation of architectural barriers in...

An inseparable element of intelligent processes is the effective use of knowledge gained from external sources and the ability to change under the influence of external factors. An example of this can be found in the process of introducing a new construction product to the EU market. It has to react to the ever-changing EU legislature and the natio...

Article stresses that revitalization of post-industrial areas shall be presented as an important element of sustainable development and social corporate responsibility of coal-mines located on Polish and the Czech Republic boarder. An analysis of financial reports and social corporate responsibility reports of 4 hard coal mines was conducted. The a...

Mining activity causes negative changes in the environment, which are most frequently referred to as mining damage. We usually deal with different kinds of land distortions, the so-called degradation, the type of which is mainly dependent on the geological conditions of strata deposition as well as the intensification and size of output and mining...

Mining affects the environment’s elements in a direct and indirect way. The direct effect includes mainly the use of arable, forest and recreational areas for the needs of mines and waste dumping grounds. The indirect effect involves broadly understood effects of mining exploitation, which include geo-mechanical transformations, soil degradation, w...

Crack formation in SG iron rolls for billet mills has been investigated. Crater formation at the roll surface is attributed to the sudden release of steam following roll coolant entering surface cracks, while propagation of these cracks towards the roll axis is arrested by graphite spheroids or at the region of inversion of the temperature gradient...

Streszczenie: W opracowaniu przedstawiono analizę wadliwości wyrobu jakim jest rura preizolowana. W tym celu wykorzystano narzędzia zarządzania jakością: diagram Pareto-Lorenza, metodę Ishikawy oraz analizę przyczyn i skutków wad – FMEA. W wyniku badań zidentyfikowano kluczowe dla wyrobu wady, miejsca ich powstawania, skutki jakie niosą one dla pro...