This study seeks to advance upcycling methods in fashion practice with the specificity of design methods that centre on revaluation and resignification of waste materials. The development of three key approaches to upcycling were tested for future ap...
The construction sector plays a key role in the growth of developing countries but faces major environmental challenges, such as greenhouse gas emissions and resource depletion. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is an essential tool for evaluating these im...
The distributed material warehouse is the crucial link in the process of modern enterprise construction, and the goal of the enterprise is to save the cost of material distribution and reduce the time of distribution. In order to obtain the optimal o...
In engineer-to-order (ETO) manufacturing environments, the high variability of final product configurations makes it difficult to consistently estimate material consumption and, consequently, to define appropriate inventory control policies. This pap...
Light weighting by material substitution is a key to reducing GHG emissions during vehicle operation. The GHG benefits are a salient factor in selecting lightweight materials for vehicles. Although the literature has performed lightweight material se...
China is facing severe acid deposition. Acid deposition can cause economic loss, corrosion, and damage to materials, and the reduction of material life span. In this study, the administrative areas (including municipalities, prefecture-level cities,...
While materials count for a considerable amount of construction costs, the way materials are managed seems to be improvised rather than approached methodically. This study investigates the practice of novel techniques used to manage materials in the...
5 September 2019
Industrial chemicals differ in their treatment methods and types, depending on their physicochemical properties. Highly volatile chemicals are emitted despite installation of preventive facilities, such as scrubbers and adsorption towers. Some countr...
The rapid commercialization of next-generation photovoltaic (PV) technologies, particularly perovskite, thin-film roll-to-roll (R2R) architectures, and tandem devices, requires robust assessment of environmental performance at the level of industrial...
Life Cycle Impact Assessments (LCIAs) examine the environmental impacts of products using life cycle inventories (LCIs) of quantified inputs and outputs of a product through its life cycle. Currently, estimated impacts from mining are dominated by lo...
Background: Material Requirements Planning (MRP) is critical in Supply Chain Management (SCM), facilitating effective inventory management and meeting production demands in the manufacturing sector. Despite the potential benefits of automating the MR...
The production of civil aircrafts is confronted with a significant demand for the interconnectivity of production resources among distributed factories, while the complex coupling relationships among various production resources might restrict the im...
The presence of hazardous materials hinders the circular economy in construction and demolition waste management. However, traditional environmental investigations are costly and time-consuming, and thus lead to limited adoption. To deal with these c...
This model extends the classical economic production quantity (EPQ) model to address the complexities within a two-echelon supply chain system. The model integrates the cost of raw materials necessary for production and takes into account the presenc...
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a powerful tool to identify direct and indirect environmental burdens associated with products, processes and services. A critical phase of the LCA methodology is the collection of representative inventory data for the...
Thermal energy storage (TES) systems are key components for concentrated solar power plants to improve their dispatchability and for shifting the energy production efficiently to high revenue periods. The commercial state of the art is the molten sal...
By using metallurgical slag from an electric arc furnace that is otherwise not recycled but deposited as an inventory material in thermal energy storage for concentrated solar power plants, it is possible to make a significant step forward in two tra...
Global competition among businesses imposes a more effective and low-cost supply chain allowing firms to provide products at a desired quality, quantity, and time, with lower production costs. The latter include holding cost, ordering cost, and backo...
For building material distributors, order planning is a key process as a result of the increase in construction projects’ scale and complexity. In this paper, the integration of simulation modeling and the response surface methodology (RSM) is...
In recent years, the need for sustainable practices within the food industry has become increasingly important and incorporating Industry 4 [...]
The sustainable implementation of resources and the transition to low-carbon construction is on the world’s daily agenda. This paper describes the development of criteria for the efficient management of material resources in low-carbon construc...
Life cycle inventories (LCIs) and life cycle assessments (LCAs) of photovoltaic (PV) modules and their components focus on the operations of PV factories, but the factories and industrial site product and construction stages are either not or only pa...
This paper presents a comprehensive forest mapping system using a customized drone payload equipped with Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), cameras, a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors. The goal...
There have been much interest and many efforts to control global warming and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions throughout the world. Recently, the Republic of Korea has also increased its GHG reduction goal and searched for an implementation plan...
For some metals, downcycling appears when scrap is polluted with undesirable elements or mixed with lower quality scrap grades in a way that the material displays a change in inherent properties when recycled. The article recommends the use of differ...
Military government was lifted from Kinmen in 1992. The opening-up of cross-strait relations transformed the island into a tourist destination. This transformation led to electricity and water shortages in Kinmen. With the reduction in the number of...
This article describes a methodical framework that combines two specific methods of Lean management, namely the ABC method and the MRP planning method. The article further argues that combining the ABC inventory method with subsequent MRP planning is...
After natural resources are mined, they are stored in cities in the form of urban minerals through the construction of buildings. However, buildings have many negative impacts on nature from the time they are constructed and used to the end of their...
25 March 2020
Environmental pollution caused by lead toxicity causes harm to human health. Lead pollution in the environment mainly comes from the processes of mining, processing, production, use, and recovery of lead. China is the world’s largest producer a...
Photovoltaic (PV) delivery security depends on shipment position and inventory coverage. We develop the Route-Adaptive Multilayer Photovoltaic Supply (PV-RAMPS) model, a deterministic scenario stress test of release, passage queues, route adaptation,...
Accounting for the embodied carbon in construction materials and calculating the carbon footprint of entire construction projects in life-cycle assessments is a rapidly developing area in the construction industry. Carbon emission accounting relies o...
Effective supply chain inventory management is crucial for large-scale manufacturing industries such as civil aircraft and automobile manufacturing to ensure efficient manufacturing. Generally, the main manufacturer makes the annual inventory managem...
With the rapid development of information and communication technologies, inventory information sharing between a manufacturer and its suppliers is becoming easier than ever. In line with this trend, we focus on the virtual warehouse where only inven...
In material management, the inventory systems may have good management aspects in terms of materials; however, this negatively affects the relationship between the facility and customers. In classical inventory models, arriving demands are satisfied...
In this study, we investigated the optimal material inventory policy with regard to the iron and steel industry’s effort to reduce massive overstocking issues in the face of increased corporate competitiveness. We gathered actual data, includin...
The competitive sailing boat industry uses carbon fibre for high-performance purposes. Nevertheless, this material is known to cause environmental issues during its manufacturing. We can currently observe, based on the literature, difficulty integrat...
In recent years, with the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), intelligent applications in various fields, such as intelligent manufacturing, have been prioritized. The most important issue in intelligent manufacturi...
This paper considers a make-to-order production–inventory system that comprises a production facility and an inventory warehouse. Customers arrive at the facility to place an order, and the orders are processed using the first-come-first-served...
Background: In the context of increasing supply chain complexity, efficient inventory management has become important in enhancing the performance of logistics systems and sustaining the competitiveness of companies. Real-time visibility, tracking, a...
In the production system, the production of a perfect item is essential for existing competitive market situations. To produce a perfect finished product, the quality of a raw material is a crucial issue of a production system. This paper has examine...
In this paper, we study inventory share policies in an omni-channel supply network, to contribute to the circular economy (CE) concept. Lateral inventory share implementation provides flexibility and profitability in the supply chain by allowing inve...
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a widely recognized tool used to evaluate the environmental impacts of a product or process, based on the environmental inventory database and bills of material. Data quality is one of the most significant factors affec...
This study investigates the integration of ABC/XYZ (value-based classification/demand variability classification) inventory classification with demand forecasting models (ETS—Error, Trend, Seasonality, ARIMA—AutoRegressive Integrated Movi...
Waste-to-energy (WtE) incineration technology is widely used to solve the energy supply, greenhouse gas emissions, and waste generation problems in urban areas. In Taiwan, there are new laws and regulations that would affect greenhouse gas management...
A blockade or severe disruption in the Strait of Hormuz would test energy supply resilience by reducing crude oil and LNG availability and by raising routing, freight, insurance, port-handling, warehousing, and transport-support costs. This paper dev...
Although the construction industry has the potential to implement circular economy (CE) principles, the sector suffers from a veritable lack of initiatives to develop circular and regenerative design principles. However, existing buildings intended t...
Background: Industrial organizations require practical and cost-effective digital transformation approaches to improve inventory visibility, traceability, and operational efficiency. Methods: A case study design combining quantitative and descriptive...
To continuously improve the efficiency of the construction project delivery process, various innovative methods and technologies have been developed and adopted in the past decades. Among these methods, modular construction has become a popular optio...
Dental laboratories require manpower resources for manufacturing prostheses and inventory management. In this paper, we developed an automated inventory management system for dental laboratories to improve the production efficiency. A sensing system...
Raw material inventory control is indispensable for ensuring the cost reduction and efficiency of enterprises. Silica powder is an essential raw material for new energy enterprises. The inventory control of silicon powder is of great concern to enter...
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