The supply chain is a world-wide network of suppliers, manufacturing plants, warehouses, distribution centers, wholesalers and retailers where raw materials are purchased, processed and transformed to be sold to customers. Customer satisfaction is highly dependent on the flexibility of the supply chain such as its ability to respond to changes in demand. Supply chain management (SCM) is current...

ECP Newsletter 2000-6 JEMAI “Environmental accounting” is now attracting the attention of Japanese industry. In the past, environmental audit, eco-labeling, EPE, LCA and other techniques have been developed to support environmental management by enterprises. Eco-materials and eco-design focusing on environmental harmony of raw materials, materials and products have been developed and are used. ...

In according to quantity of various consumption materials in construction sites of complex projects such as oil industry, infrastructure, and large scale commercial, management and monitoring of materials can affect on the final time and cost of project’s activities. In today’s world of rising labor costs and labor shortages, automated materials tracking can provide some advantage to impr...

Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Crane's comprehensive pollution prevention program emphasizes planning, employee education, innovation and incentives. One of Crane's primary goals is to move the facility from a pollution control mindset to a pollution prevention ethic through its Corporate Environmental Policy Statement, environmental management system and educational tools ...

Srinivasa R. Bakshi, Virendra Singh, D. Graham McCartney, Sudipta Seal and Arvind Agarwal* Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33174, USA AMPAC, Nanoscience and Technology Center (NSTC) and Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA School of Mechanical, Materials and Manufact...

growth of the petrochemical industry and its products has been followed growth in other sectors of production, use and trade of chemicals at national and regional levels. it is one of the basic industries which are feeder to other industry sectors as the engine of the economy and play a major role in developing countries. with no doubt mismanagement and improper use of chemicals lead to harmful...

India is a country of diversity in language, culture and socio-economic conditions. In order to make use the cutting edge computer aided education technology in this setting, efforts have to be made for proper management of the learning materials by addressing this diversity. In this paper, we present a framework for manual ontology engineering in education domain for managing learning material...

Materials with zero/near zero thermal expansion coefficients are technologically important for applications in thermal management and engineering. To date, this class of materials can only be produced by chemical routes, either by changing chemical compositions or by composting materials with positive and negative thermal expansion. Here, we report for the first time a physical route to achieve...

A key challenge for the waste management sector is to maximise resource efficiency whilst simultaneously reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. For stakeholders to better understand the GHG impacts of their waste management activities and identify emissions reduction opportunities, they need to be able to quantify the GHG impacts of material recycling. Whilst previous studies have been un...