Integrating impact assessment into planning

Integrating workers' differences into workforce planning

0360-8352/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2012.06.015 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 514 836 3771; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] ( concordia.ca (N. Bhuiyan), [email protected] In today’s competitive market, manufacturers need to work hard towards improving their production system performance in order to satisfy customer demands. I...

Integrating Capacity Simulation into Process Planning

Process planning in the automotive industry is referred to as advance manufacturing engineering, because it is done in advance of production — before the facilities are created. When developing these processes, simulation is typically done by service groups, not the process planner, resulting in communication errors and unnecessary iterations. Software applications are now becoming available th...

Integrating Worker Differences into Workforce Planning

Integrating fire risk into forest planning

The present thesis deals with the inclusion of fire risk considerations into forest planning in Catalonia (North-East Spain). The first part of the thesis focused on the modeling the susceptibility of different kinds of forest to fire (Studies I, II, III and IV), and the second part on the inclusion of the acquired knowledge about fire risk into forest planning systems (Studies V and VI). The m...

Integrating scientific guidance into marine spatial planning.

Marine spatial planning (MSP), whereby areas of the ocean are zoned for different uses, has great potential to reduce or eliminate conflicts between competing management goals, but only if strategically applied. The recent literature overwhelmingly agrees that including stakeholders in these planning processes is critical to success; but, given the countless alternative ways even simple spatial...