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  • Integrating sustainable manufacturing assessment into decision making for a production work cell

    Creator:
    Zhang, Hao
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    Sustainability has been the focus of intense discussions over the past two decades, with topics around the entire product life cycle. In the manufacturing phase, research has been focused solely on environmental impact assessment or environmental impact and cost analysis in its assessment of sustainability. However, few efforts have investigated...
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    Masters Thesis
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    social impact assessment towards sustainable manufacturing on shop floor, as well as decision making

  • Assisting decision making in component design for sustainable manufacturing

    Creator:
    Eastlick, Dane D.
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    Current life cycle assessment tools are often deficient in assisting design for sustainable manufacturing efforts. Integrating an improved assessment method into a decision support framework will provide a means for designers and engineers to better understand the impacts of their decisions. A unit process modeling-based sustainability assessment method is presented...
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    Masters Thesis
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    environmental and social impacts. Thus, to assist in sustainability decision making for the manufacturing

  • Multiobjective decision making in industrial energy and environmental planning

    Creator:
    Kang, Hee Jung
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    Multiobjective Decision Making (MODM) has been suggested for the solution of complicated decision problems. Decision analysis in numerous areas, including industrial energy and environmental planning, necessarily requires consideration of multiple conflicting objectives. MODM has been successfully applied to a number of these problems of this type. Moreover, it has the...
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    Dissertation
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    Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering presented on May 2, 1989. Title: Multiobjective Decision Making in

  • A Unit Manufacturing Process Characterization Methodology and Supporting Terminology for Sustainable Manufacturing Assessment

    Creator:
    Garretson, Ian C.
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    Manufacturing industry drives economic activity and growth around the world, but manufacturing activities consume large amounts of material, energy, and labor resources. Therefore, the impacts of manufacturing need to be accounted for and reduced. Direct benefits of manufacturing are products and income, which, in turn, influence the lives of people...
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    Masters Thesis
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    research is to enable sustainable manufacturing decision making by 1) unifying an assessment

  • Essays on location decisions and carbon sequestration strategies of U.S. firms

    Creator:
    Wu, Caiwen
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    Location is a critical component of business decisions. A firm's location decision may be influenced not only by market forces, such as the location of input suppliers, output processors and competitors, but also by government policies if such policies impact their expected profits and are applied non-uniformly across space. Likewise,...
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    Dissertation
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    storage, while exploring major influential factors on decision making. In particular, it estimates the

  • A business feasibility tool for artisan cheese operation start-up

    Creator:
    Bouma, Andrea
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    The objective of this study was to develop a decision making tool to determine economic feasibility of artisan cheese operations. A survey of current Oregon artisan cheese companies was used to gain knowledge of the fixed and variable costs associated with cheese production and business start-up. The data from this...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Lisbeth Meunier-Goddik The objective of this study was to develop a decision making tool to

  • An economic and environmental assessment model for microchannel device manufacturing

    Creator:
    Gao, Qi
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    A key application of microchannel process technology (MPT) is its implementation in heat exchanger devices, since a larger surface contact area can be realized than in conventional approaches, thus achieving high heat transfer efficiency. To justify high volume production of configurations validated as prototypes, and to select from among the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    and environmental impacts for microchannel device manufacturing will benefit the industry by