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EcoProduction and Logistics

Emerging Trends and Business Practices

  • Emphasizes the crucial aspects of implementation of the environmental conscious manufacturing practice to existing industrial systems
  • Provides practical application of tools and methods for solving business practice problems
  • Includes case studies which guide readers in areas outside of their expertise
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: EcoProduction (ECOPROD)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Sustainability and Life Cycle Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
  3. Sustainability and life cycle management

    1. Supporting Product Lifecycle Management with Requirements Information

      • Jorma Papinniemi, Lea Hannola, Michael Maletz
      Pages 3-21
    2. Is It Possible To Generate Added Value Through A Higher Environmental Proactivity Orientation? A Practical Analysis of the Spanish Ceramic Industry

      • Conrado Carrascosa-López, María-del-Val Segarra-Oña, Ángel Peiró-Signes, Luis Miret-Pastor, Baldomero Segura-García-del-Río
      Pages 57-71
    3. Analysing the Determinants of Better Performance Through Eco Management Tools at the Food Industry: An Empirical Study

      • Ángel Peiró-Signes, Lluís Miret-Pastor, María-del-Val Segarra-Oña, Blanca De-Miguel-Molina
      Pages 73-90
  4. Environmental Friendly Resource Management in Production

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
  5. Environmental friendly resource management in Production

    1. Production Waste Management: Case Study

      • Paulina Golinska, Pawel Majewski
      Pages 103-115
    2. Sustainability: Orientation in Maintenance Management: Case Study

      • Malgorzata Jasiulewicz-Kaczmarek
      Pages 135-154
    3. Framework for Controlling Energy Consumption of Machine Tools

      • Jan Schlechtendahl, Philipp Eberspächer, Holger Haag, Alexander Verl, Engelbert Westkämper
      Pages 155-168
    4. Mobile Assistance for Energy-Efficient Production: Scenario Parameters and System Impact

      • Sebastian Schlund, Stefan Gerlach, Wolfgang Schweizer, Uwe Laufs, Patrick Schneider, Jan Zibuschka
      Pages 169-184
    5. Scheduling a Single Mobile Robot Incorporated into Production Environment

      • Quang-Vinh Dang, Izabela Ewa Nielsen, Kenn Steger-Jensen
      Pages 185-201
    6. Declarative Approach to Cyclic Scheduling of Multimodal Processes

      • Grzegorz Bocewicz, Zbigniew A. Banaszak
      Pages 203-235
  6. Information Systems and Information Management Supporting Sustainability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237
  7. Information systems and information management supporting sustainability

    1. Simulation Software and Technologies for “Green” Eco-Production

      • Paweł Pawlewski, F. Javier Otamendi
      Pages 239-259

About this book

Environmental awareness is driven mainly by the scarcity of natural resources and by more strict legal regulations. The modern enterprise policy should look at the relations between economic actions and ecological consequences. Ecoproduction is a new business approach which focuses on the most efficient and productive use of raw materials and natural resources in order to minimize footprints on the natural environment. This book aims to provide the state- of- the- art as well as new ideas of the environmental conscious operations management. The contributors present in the individual chapters problems related to: eco-friendly production technologies; recycling and waste reduction. Scope of topics discussed in this book covers also pollution prevention, energy efficiency. The authors describe problems of information management in complex systems

Editors and Affiliations

  • Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

    Paulina Golinska

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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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