Findings and Recommendations on Lean Production and Environmental Management Systems in the Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Sector

Findings and Recommendations on Lean Production and Environmental Management Systems in the Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Sector

Environmental implications , related to the shipbuilding and ship repairing activity in Greece

It is widely accepted that excessive urbanization, concluded into intense industrial activities near residential districts, with unpleasant effects to the citizens health. Furthermore, shipbuilding and ship repairing consists one of the polluting industrial activities in the country – and more precisely concerning the widely capital region – in spite of the recession that has come to the last y...

Study of environmental management systems on defence

The effective and sustainable environmental performance of a business is a result of various factors and most important the integrated outcome of the environmental management. Likewise, the integration of environmental protection into the armed forces functions has also gain interest for the military sector internationally. Therefore, the environmental management system (EMS) is recognized as o...

Technological Implications of Supply Chain Practices in Agri-Food Sector: A Review

Today, the global business environment compels enterprises to consider rest of the world in their competitive strategy analysis where firms ignore external factors such as economic trends, competitive positions or technology advancement in other countries. While going truly global with supply chain management, a company develops product in the United States, produce in India and trade in Europe...

Study on implementation of one-piece lean line design using simulation techniques: A practical approach

This paper discusses the simulation study carried out for proposing one-piece lean line layout with features of Lean Manufacturing. The lean initiatives that can be addressed are, introducing Kanban replenishment sys-tem, better work-in-process, changing the layout, visual management techniques, standardized work for the re-duction of cycle time, number of workers, number of setups. To improve ...