Development of fruit – confectionery products the leftover from fruit – canning factories in small business industry is the second – year continuous project. The aims were to study the product shelf life and to transfer production process to the community and private sectors. The result of shelf – life study indicated that the pH and water activity of Papaya Cream Guava Cream Pineapple Cream Mixed – flavoured fruit (yee) and Banana toffee were 3.78 3.62 3.20 3.48 3.57 3.92 and 0.97 0.97 0.91 0.60 0.51 0.58 respectively. At an 8-week period no microorganism – borne deterioration of the products was found;moreover they were accepted by the consumers. The target group of as participants as planned was trained for a 3 – day period to produce 5 fruit – confectionery products. The training evaluation revealed that the group considered management on instructors teaching materials and laboratories ‘much’ to ‘most appropriate’; whereas training operation was viewed ‘most appropriate’. At the project end it was found that 29.27% 29.27 and 28.05% of the target group made fruit – confectionery for family consumption and as a gift or a souvenir respectively; 9.76% put their products in stores for sale as a supplemental career; 3.65% transferred their knoeledge to others.

This research was aimed to develop criteria for quality evaluation of OTOP products of 5 types; namely food product beverage product cloth and costumes product utensils decoration and souvenirs product and herbal product. Which is not food Then the developed criteria were used as a quality evaluation form for OTOP products in interactive system on website. The usability of the system was tested by 72 persons in the group of OTOP product entrepreneurs and 96 persons in the group of customers. The results from the development of 5 types of criteria for product quality evaluation showed that: the criteria for food product consisted of 282 items; beverage product consisted of 41 items; cloth and costumes product consisted of 47 items; utensils decoration and souvenirs product consisted of 27 items and herbal product which is not food consisted of 77 items According to the usability tested by the entrepreneurs it was found that the effectiveness of usage was at the highest level. As for the usability tested by the customers it was found that the effectiveness of usage and the learnability were at the highest level.

The organizational environments have been dynamically changed. Chief executive officer must turn an ailing organization around by rethinking a new mission. With global competition and trend of environmental performance improvement the green management then becomes substantially strategic orientation. The new management techniques such as Total Quality Management and Lean Management are introduced to the organization for achieving its new mission. The researchers use case studies method to describe the causal relationship between productivity derived from continuous improvement initiatives and green management by presenting four empirical cases. The results of all cases were measured by differentiation and integration criterion and then quantified by the concept of Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing. The findings of this paper are the causal inference and continuous improvement initiative procedure

Phenol is an important raw material in many branches of industry (petrochemical pharmaceutical plastic and pesticidal chemical industry ). This research study on phenol production processes by using two different phenol production processes which are cumene oxidation (the Hock process) and toluene oxidation (the Dow process). In order to study in environmental impacts Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is applied to evaluate environmental impacts of phenol production processes. Environmental impacts are evaluated according to cradle-to-gate approach by using SimaPro 7.1 software for Life Cycle Assessment . Approach by IMPACT 2002+ . The result shows that cumene process is more environmentally favorable than toluene process.

The research aimed to study and develop handicraft products from elephant dung paper for community income generation in Changwat Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya and to compare the product satisfaction of the target group for the original style and the new one of elephant dung paper. The target group was composed of 143 tourists from other provinces and 143 local tourists. Both target groups would like to buy handicraft products from elephant dung paper and help generate community income in Changwat Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya. Research tool used were questionnaire and data were analyzed by statistical percentage mean and mode. Questionnaire was used for the product attributes satisfaction evaluation of the target group including alternative evaluation process and comparison of product styles evaluation process. Data were analyzed by statistically percentage mean and t-test dependent sample. The results were as follows: 1. The target group chose the third style on 3 designs of handicraft products from elephant dung paper. 2. For the product attribute satisfaction of the target group it was found that the new style of handicraft product was more acceptable than the original one at a significance level of 0.05.