Against the backdrop of digital innovation, new opportunities to empower technical customer service (TCS) for industrial equipment are emerging. Despite the currently available technological capabilities, organizations struggle to harness the potential of industrial equipment becoming cyber-physical. Cyber-physical capabilities of industrial equipment equipped with sensors, connectivity, and ac...

both climate change and anthropogenic impact are creating a dynamic of continuous changes in ecosystems. while the expected consequences of these changes are global, the occurrence of extreme events and specific environmental problems are usually local or regional phenomenon. in particular, the coastal ecosystems are among the first vulnerable areas to show those changes; in spite of this, are ...

Global awareness of sustainability issues is growing rapidly, and business organizations are called to address wider social and environmental concerns along with economic performance. However, limited systematic knowledge exists on the interactions between forest industries and natural ecosystems. We thus investigated the role of ecosystem services in the context of China’s forest sector. A qua...

Adam Wightwick1,2,3, Robert Walters3, Graeme Allinson3,4, Suzanne Reichman5, and Neal Menzies1,2 1The University of Queensland 2Co-operative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment (CRC CARE) 3Department of Primary Industries, Victoria 4Victorian Centre for Aquatic Pollution Identification and Management (CAPIM) 5Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (R...

Department of Industrial Engineering, Center of Excellence for Intelligent Experimental Mechanics, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, P.O. Box 11365-4563, Iran Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tafresh, Iran Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran Department of Fina...

Purpose – To describe a way of teaching industrial ecology (IE) and to show some tools that may help for the IE teaching. Design/methodology/approach – In the paper, the development of lectures, practical lessons and projects on real industrial ecosystems are described. Also the teaching materials used are described. Findings – The presented methodology for teaching IE has been a good means for...

Ecosystems are often exposed to mixtures of chemical contaminants, but the scientific community lacks a theoretical framework to predict the effects of mixtures on biodiversity and ecosystem properties. We conducted a freshwater mesocosm experiment to examine the effects of pairwise agrochemical mixtures [fertiliser, herbicide (atrazine), insecticide (malathion) and fungicide (chlorothalonil)] ...

Studying design creativity and innovation from practical perspectives for companies requires both a good understanding of the company ecosystem and its inner processes contributing to delivered innovations and a rigorous design research methodology to provide effective design models, methods, platforms that are truly effective in the context of company. Working in an Industrial Engineering labo...

Stream and lake ecosystems in agricultural watersheds are exposed to fungicide inputs that can threaten the structure and functioning of aquatic microbial communities. This research analyzes the impact of the triazole fungicide tebuconazole (TBZ) on natural biofilm and plankton microbial communities from sites presenting different degrees of agricultural contamination. Biofilm and plankton comm...