Material handling is a loose loop in most assembly plants. Jiist-in-time (JIT) is a management philosophy that strives to eliminate sources of manufacturing waste by producing the right part in the right place at the right time. We propose to apply JIT principles to material handling in assembly plants. Material Kanbans are introduced as an effective means to control and balance the physical ma...

Abatement: A measure or set of measures designed to permanently eliminate lead-based paint hazards or lead-based paint. Abatement strategies include the removal of lead-based paint, enclosure, encapsulation, replacement of building components coated with lead-based paint, removal of lead-contaminated dust, and removal of lead-contaminated soil or overlaying of soil with a durable covering such ...

Abstract: Heavy metal contamination of drinking water poses serious threat to public health and ecosystems. Chronic exposure to such metal contamination can lead to various health problems including nerve and organ damages. Thus, removal of heavy toxic metals from the contaminated water supply is a critical issue of water quality management. Naturally-occurring resources have been attractive ca...

The Skagit County Resource Recovery Facility (SCRRF) was developed in the mid-1980s to combust all of the county's unrecycled garbage. The design, con­ struction and operation of this project is the first of three waste-to-energy projects (along with Spokane and Tacoma) developed in the State of Washington. Their successful development in the shadows of the highly touted Seattle recycling effor...

Many publications show that macrophages are closely involved in etiology of diseases, such as cancer, diabetes, arteriosclerosis, and Alzheimer's disease. Recent studies show that waste products (e.g. dead cells, denatured proteins, oxidized lipids, and advanced glycation end-products) are the real causative agents of lifestyle-associated diseases. From the standpoint of health maintenance, mac...

Manufacturing organizations always needs some ways to reduce production lead time, eliminate waste and increase quality to survive in today’s competitive world. Lean manufacturing is such a technique used by industries all over the world in past few decades. It consists of various tools and techniques to reduce waste and increase productivity. One of the major tools in lean manufacturing is Val...

anaerobic digestion is a feasible technology to stabilize the solid waste generated inslaughterhouses obtaining significant quantities of biogas, considered as a clean and renewable fuel. this iswhy it is important to optimize the digestion process in order to eliminate organic matter and maximize theproduction of biogas. in this work, a system was developed for treating slaughterhouse solid wa...

This contribution deals with the waste from the processes in which raw hide is transformed into leather, as well as with the waste generated during further leather processing and the final waste of leather industry, the worn-out shoes. All this waste, if deposited in the open-air dumps, represents a potential threat to human health, because it contains trivalent chromium (Cr III), which can oxi...

lean thinking is management strategy that is applicable to all organizations including health care organizations, and its main idea is to eliminate waste. finding a suitable location for treatment facilities in the health chain plays an important role in the implementation of this idea in the organization, because on the one hand, proximity to suppliers of medical centers ensures rapid and low-...