OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES

Industrial Growth and Sustainable Development in Iran

This study aims to measure how much the industrial sector suppresses the development process to be sustainable in Iran. We employ a quadratic-log form of regression model to test the Industrial Environmental Kuznets Hypothesis. In addition, we use a Vector Auto-Regressive model to estimate the nexus among the industrial growth, income inequality, environmental pollution, and energy consumption ...

Optimal operational control for complex industrial processes

Process control should aim at not only ensuring that controlled variables to best follow their set points, but also requiring the optimal control for the operation of the whole plant to make the operational indices (e.g. quality, efficiency and consumptions during the production phase) into their targeted ranges. It also requires that operational indices for quality and efficiency should be enh...

Industrial Policy for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development

The point of departure of this paper is the hypothesis that we are in the midst of a change in the techno-economic paradigm. What we perceive as new challenges in a globalized world economy are in fact symptoms of the search for a new paradigm. There is some probability that a key feature of a new paradigm will be ecological sustainability. Therefore, a policy that tries to shape the structures...

Empowerment for Sustainable Development : Towards Operational Strategies

Sustainable Industrial Development in Penang

o The overall aim oithis project is to address the current unsustainable situation §f the manufacturing industry in Penang, and thdjnadequacies in the regulation of this industry, in order to point towards ways that a regulation of the industry can support a less unsustainable industrial development. Penang, a small state in Malaysia, has the past 20 years underwent a tremendous economic growth...