Roads perform an important connecting function for the community. At the same time their design, construction and operation are not always easy from the point of view of sustainability. Achieving sustainability in this process requires the undertaking of initiatives such as sound environmental management, water sensitive urban design, use of advanced and recycled materials, and environmentally ...

Cyclic production, which is distinctive of recycling and chemical processes, and by-products can hardly be managed in common ERP systems. This problem is discussed using graph representations like gozintographs. Furthermore an approach is presented to handle by-products and cyclic production with common gozintograph structures for acceptable solutions in the material requirements planning (MRP)...

Technologies for storing, transmitting, and processing information have made astounding progress in dematerialization. The amount of physical mass needed to represent one bit of information has dramatically decreased in the last few years, and is still declining. However, information will always need a material basis. In this chapter, we address both the upstream (from mining to the product) an...

The organization today must respond to an increasing rate of environmental challenges. At first, the industry should respect the legislative regulations which demand the “ecologically necessary”, a set of minimum environmental requirements [21]. These regulations focus on either the performance of offers (such as ERP, RoHS, and WEEE etc.) or the daily activities of enterprise. (Ex: local antipo...

(2015) Heisenberg-limited metrology with information recycling. This document is made available in accordance with publisher policies and may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the URL above for details on accessing the published version. Copyright and all moral rights to t...

ID: 268 Eric D. Antmann, Nurcin Celik*, Xiaoran Shi, and Yading Dai Department of Industrial Engineering, The University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA *Telephone: (305) 284-2391, E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Solid waste produced as a by-product of our daily activities poses a major threat to societies as populations grow and economic development advances. Consequently, the effective manag...

W generation and resource shortages have long been recognized as two of the greatest challenges human society is facing. In the early 1970s, the Club of Rome, a group of pioneering global thinkers, predicted in their milestone book The Limits to Growth that “if the present growth trends in world population...pollution ... and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this p...