background soil pollution due to toxic metals released by industrial activities such as cement production is a serious problem from the standpoints of the environment and public health, because they tend to persist, circulating indefinitely and, eventually, accumulating throughout the food chain. objectives this paper presents the results of the first research study into the distribution of cad...

introduction: occupational exposure to excessive noise is commonly encountered in a large number of industries in iran. this study evaluated the hearing threshold and hearing loss in meybod tile factory workers. methods: this cross-sectional study included 371 tile factoryworkers during summer and autumn of 2005. current noise exposure was estimated using sound level meter .a specially formatte...

Background: Cement production is associated with heavy metal emissions and environmental pollution by cement dust. The degree of contamination of drinking water sources by major and trace elements present in cement dust generated by united cement factory (UNICEM) is still uncertain. This study estimated the element content of ground and surface water samples (hand-dug wells, boreholes and strea...

The importance of supply chains in pharmacological industry is remarkable so that nowadays many pharmacological supply chains have an effective and critical role for supplying and distributing drugs in health area. So, this study studies a three-echelon pharmacological supply chain contained multi-distributor of raw materials, a pharmaceutical factory, and multi-drug distributors companies such...

During the last few years Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) became an important aspect in the manufacturing industry. The di erent components of CIM as there are the CAx techniques on the engineering side and manufacturing planning and control systems (MPC-systems) on the operational side now show their in uence on organizational structures and the working environment. Limits and problems...

This paper describes a maintenance service support system for wide-area indoor environment, such as a factory and a hospital. In maintenance services, operators often have to check a map to find out a way to a target machine, and also have to refer documents to get information about check-up and repair of the machine. In order to reduce working load of operators, information technology can help...

Prefabricated timber component-based systems are the most prevalent industrialised system used to build housing. Along with many other countries, UK has invested in different types of factory-based prefabrication as a means increasing productivity and enhancing quality. In more recent decades, become part series ‘modern methods construction’ employed for, aimed at, delivering sustainable effici...

there are a lot of studies indicating adverse effects of unemployment on health and, especially, mental health. the present research is conducted in finland, where the number of unemployed increased sharply between 1990 (3.5 %) and 1993 (19%), which was the fastest in any western country . the first study group consisted of 211 people working at a wood processing factory, at risk of firing, and...