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Development of Sustainable Manufacturing Performance Evaluation Expert System for Small and Medium Enterprises
2016
Procedia CIRP
The fuzzy rule-based expert system is proposed to elicit the performances of all the aspects and overall sustainability of the organization based on triple bottom-line framework. ...
This study proposes a fuzzy rule based expert system for sustainable manufacturing performance assessment in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). ...
Research Design The purpose of this study is to develop a web based expert system that will aid decision makers in the performance assessment of their manufacturing system based on the Triple Bottom-Line ...
doi:10.1016/j.procir.2016.01.142
fatcat:udyiwc5bfzd6hltck7wwyzdt5q
Development of a Sustainable Industry 4.0 Approach for Increasing the Performance of SMEs
2022
Processes
The proposed framework helped the company to formulate guidelines and transition towards a sustainable 4.0 company. ...
and the deployment of a sustainable Industry 4.0 methodology, and to develop an intelligent system for supporting companies' digital transformation in order to improve their performance. ...
Acknowledgments: Icam site of Grand Paris Sud and IBISC laboratory contribute to the study realization their technical and administrative supports. ...
doi:10.3390/pr10061092
fatcat:h6lxiio7xrguxbg5s777ckejhu
AIoT-Based Smart Bin for Real-Time Monitoring and Management of Solid Waste
2020
Scientific Programming
To maintain the cleanliness of a city and for real-time monitoring of trash bins, a smart bin mechanism (SBM) for smart cities is proposed in this paper, which is based on Artificial Intelligent of Things ...
Solid waste management is a pivotal aspect in traditional systems and it is becoming dangerous in most populated areas. ...
on the centralized system for waste management that is managed by a central authority. ...
doi:10.1155/2020/6613263
fatcat:2mp7azt66ze67gy6b7wzjxplvy
Railway communication system; Reliability; Mean time to failure; Markov process; Sensitivity
2021
Operational Research in Engineering Sciences: Theory and Applications
"Prospective Multiple Attribute Decision Making (PMADM)" is one of the well-known decision-making frameworks that have been used as a flexible decision-making tool for developing policies and making future ...
A vision-based weighting system (ViWeS) prepares a new opportunity to take proper decisions in different visions and time requirements. ...
Acknowledgment: Proyecto Nº 11190104: New approaches to the future-based decision making based on Prospective Multiple Attribute Decision Making (PMADM) outline; Programa Fodecyt, Conicyt, Ministrio de ...
doi:10.31181/oresta20402140z
fatcat:nih7aqd4ffbbhmtz4avy52rvgi
Linking the multi-level perspective with social representations theory: Gasifiers as a niche innovation reinforcing the energy-from-waste (EfW) regime
2017
Technological forecasting & social change
Taking a socio-cognitive perspective, this paper links the MLP with social representations theory, to show how a new technology is diversely 'anchored' in a familiar one for different agendas. ...
The case study is a specific niche innovationthermal treatments of municipal solid waste (MSW) within the UK's wider regime of energy-from-waste (EfW). ...
For helpful editorial comments, we would like to thank Stephen Burnley (Open University), Frank Geels (University of Manchester), Geraint Evans (Energy Technologies Institute) and Niranjan Patel (DEFRA ...
doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2017.03.028
fatcat:lnrjg665lnfsdfxcy3e4nudtkm
Technology management methodologies and applications
2005
Technovation
Based on the scope of 546 articles of technology management methodologies, this paper surveys and classifies TM methodologies using the eight categories of: TM framework, General and policy research, Information ...
This paper surveys technology management (TM) development using a literature review and classification of articles from 1995 to 2003 with keyword index in order to explore how TM methodologies and applications ...
A framework for implementing an integrative approach based on a strategic perspective to business process reengineering has been discussed in an empirical study (Wu, 2002) . ...
doi:10.1016/j.technovation.2003.08.002
fatcat:a7cgmtsjwrdhbe2ic7b6gbrrue
Overview of legislation on sewage sludge management in developed countries worldwide
2015
Water Science and Technology
Sewage sludge cannot be regarded solely as 'waste'; it is a renewable resource for energy and material recovery. ...
The need to apply innovative technologies for maximizing the efficiency and minimizing the carbon footprint of sewage treatment plants has upgraded sewage sludge management to a highly sophisticated research ...
. ) but, instead, a flexible treatment system that can lead to advantageous alternatives in terms of water, nutrients and energy reuse. ...
doi:10.2166/wst.2015.521
pmid:26877026
fatcat:aripyuuqz5eufoc3a3pl4zisd4
An ICT Supported Holistic Approach for Qualitative and Quantitative Energy Efficiency Evaluation in Manufacturing Company
[chapter]
2013
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
This paper presents an ICT based holistic approach to help manufacturing companies in the implementation of energy management system. ...
The global climate change and the rising of energy prices force manufacturing companies to regulate their energy usage. A suitable step to achieve that is the introduction of energy management. ...
Furthermore, ontology combined with rules is also used to represent the knowledge base of an intelligent energy management system that monitors and controls the energy consumption in a household [13] ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40352-1_4
fatcat:lbimbsdgvjdotlttokiuw737ke
Future waste treatment and energy systems – examples of joint scenarios
2013
Waste Management
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Authors wish to thank the other members of the TOPWASTE project for inspiration and valuable discussions. We furthermore wish to thank Prof. ...
Henrik Lund for his input regarding the CEESA project. Comments from anonymous reviewers are also much appreciated. ...
Based on the scenarios, including waste generation, a cost-efficient waste management system could be calculated for the different scenarios. ...
doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2013.07.013
pmid:23932196
fatcat:i2kpiusmcjdjlmcuif4r4gtb3e
Review and prioritization of investment projects in the Waste Management organization of Tabriz Municipality with a Rough Sets Theory approach
2021
International Journal of Innovation in Management, Economics and Social Sciences
Originality/Value: Tabriz Municipality Waste Management is an important and influential organization in the activities of the city, in which the investment methods in its projects are mostly based on common ...
The purpose of this study is to prioritize projects and investment methods for projects (10 projects) considered by the Waste Management Organization of Tabriz Municipality. ...
evaluation system framework for the low carbon technology integration innovation from the perspective of the system management. ...
doi:10.52547/ijimes.1.3.46
fatcat:3c7nrp6m75aj7aj6u5g3b7jsqm
POLICY PROPOSALS FOR FLEXIBLE URBANISM
2022
Zenodo
It therefore proposes both short-term actions, and but also establishes a framework to that guides future urban/spatial planning actions, that embracing utilises urban metabolism accounting and is informed ...
by flexible urbanism concepts. ...
Rigid institutional governance systems to adopt flexible, open and collaborative decision making and institutional responsiveness to change is resulting in cities being unable to manage urbanisation and ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.6594617
fatcat:ll2fxtnzfzgbjoblwbpytqooeu
THE RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL: THE CONTRIBUTION OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
2011
Energy Studies Review
This article addresses the following question: How to deal with uncertainty, emergence of new information and irreversibility in the decision process of the long-term disposal of radioactive waste? ...
Intuitively, one might think that measures taken today are more relevant when they are flexible. ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We are particularly grateful to Sandrine Spaeter for very constructive comments on earlier versions of this work. ...
doi:10.15173/esr.v18i2.530
fatcat:c7ja3bhtirfwvf4w6l57ease3y
Cognitive and institutional perspectives of eco-efficiency
2003
Ecological Economics
A cognitive perspective derives from recent research on simple heuristics and context-based rationality; it is proposed that those findings can serve to analyse decision-making of individual actors respectively ...
As a brief case study the article reflects upon German waste law's ability to enhance eco-efficiency. ...
Acknowledgements The article benefited much from a visiting fellowship at the Max-Planck Project Group on the Law of Common Goods in Bonn. ...
doi:10.1016/s0921-8009(03)00186-1
fatcat:wiwgitxfu5c6hezq3jiemilqam
Is there a need for greater integration and shift in policy to tackle food waste? Insights from a review of European Union legislations
2020
SN Applied Sciences
For that to happen though, a prerequisite is lot more empirical research on the interaction effects of various food waste legislations. ...
But there is no clarity whether policies aimed at food waste minimisation are based on sound legislative frameworks that actually empower the relevant actors. ...
For greater clarity of presentation, the frameworks and legislations related to food waste are categorised based on their target/objective. ...
doi:10.1007/s42452-020-3147-8
fatcat:5jdle3v6vrdmhpksqj72g26jx4
Sustainable Closed-loop supply chain under uncertainty
[article]
2021
arXiv
pre-print
Finally a sensitivity analysis was carried out to investigate the effects of important parameters on the optimal solution. ...
To solve the proposed model, considering uncertainties in the problem, the improved epsilon-constraint approach was adopted to transform the multi-objective model into a single-objective one. ...
Structural flexibility Supplier flexibility: It is one of decisive factors for network flexibility. ...
arXiv:2104.06560v2
fatcat:tedsvjgx2rbrpeiizrphtzajqe
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