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Construction and maintenance of road infrastructure is a major source of emissions and energy usage. Procuring green roads, however, is neither commonplace nor trivial to implement. New ways to enhance the green procurement of roads are therefore needed, and can potentially involve life cycle assessment and green labelling methods. Considering the complexity of the pavement industry sector with its...
An academic spin-off is a new company born by the idea of merging the competences of different academic or institutional research groups. The main goal of a spin-off is to transfer and commercialize technological innovations. This article describes a high-technology Italian innovative spin-off named DInESto, (Drive the Innovation in Energy Storage); the core business of this company is in the field...
The aim of this present paper is to evaluate network sustainability applying a quantitative model based on the integration of LCA data with discrete simulation. For this purpose, different scenarios have been defined by collecting several product-chain data as an attempt to develop a formalized approach to share information within networks. As preliminary step, the supply chain environmental impact...
The purchase and storage of a real inventory plays an important role in carrying out the main manufacturing processes in an industrial enterprise. To optimize its level, with adhering to the rules of reducing the maintenance costs and carrying out production in uninterrupted manner, is a major challenge for manufacturing entities. The volume of stored maintenance part inventories is largely due to...
In this paper we present the architecture of a new Micro Assessment (MA) system for “micro knowledge and skills control” that allows the manager to get information and status on knowledge gained on behalf of the employees, on very short status cuts during the working hours, rather than scheduling special meetings with them in order to assess their gained knowledge. This kind of micro testing saves...
In this paper, the recent two years of failure analysis cases of our laboratory are screened and some of them are displayed, they are mostly selected with a relation to the influence of temperature and humidity. To illustrate the typical and common failure phenomenon, plastic packaging products are focused. The main failure mode of these failed products include package delaminations, solder abnormality,...
A case study on innovation and creativity in engineering design instruction has been presented. The novel approach emphases on the role of student engagement, team spirit and industry support to students. This paper presented findings on student engagement, engagement styles and practical implementation of instructional method to enhance student engagement in engineering design. This approach ensures...
Supply chain management (SCM) is a very challenging problem that us leveraging the e-commerce explosion. Today's supply chains are essentially static, because they rely on long-term relationship among key trading partners. Dynamic practices are vital because they offer better matches between suppliers and customers as market conditions change. Multi-agent systems (MAS) offer new perspectives compared...
Organizations around the world executes by people and/or other types of resources thousands even millions operations per day, depending on its size. Managing of the organization requires to get to know almost each its element. The best way for identification of these elements is to create a model of the organization. Usually organizations reject to create such model because there is no standard approach...
Devising a system requirements specification is a challenging task. Even after several decades of system development research, specifications for large-scale, widely-used systems remain difficult. In this paper, we suggest a first step toward a requirements specification through a stakeholder involvement approach with game elements. We report preliminary findings from a practice case in which our...
Organizational ambidexterity, defined as the simultaneously pursuit of both exploitation and exploration activities, is essential for organizations' survival, thrive and mature. However, the building of this capability is still ambiguous in prior literatures. This paper draws on the organizational learning theories, presents how two types of learning (i.e. strategic learning and business learning)...
The supply chain (SC) will be considered as a competitive strategy and one of the most useful methods by which companies can deliver products to customers effectively, all aspects of great are really importance to companies. However, each company has its own business scale and market areas, the supply chain model must vary to accommodate those dissimilarities. The contributions of the paper are three-fold:...
Sustainable and environmental, is the clarion call for 21st Century and a challenge to our consumption led lifestyles. Therein lies a conflict, on one hand environmentalism on the other emergence from the economic doldrums, the later predicated on consumer confidence and increased sales. In response we placate our eco-consciences purchasing ‘green products’ in ‘eco-stores’. This research will suggest...
When considering how to create and frame design the market of data, the question of what is an intention behind the raw data has to be raised. Here a concept of Frame is introduced to capture products consisting of a set of components, such as usage, function, data and material representing raw data. A web based system has been developed to explore an effect of the frame. Although the workplace of...
Location problems are often solved by means of optimization. Simulation is often used to test the feasibility of an optimal solution after that the optimal solution is obtained. The test by simulation is done with more dynamic circumstances, introducing stochastic behavior. This research proposes to solve location problems directly in a simulation model, combining an optimization algorithm within...
Solving the problem of Construction SMEs financing, the key is to reduce risk and increase bank credit bank returns. Based on symbiosis theory, studied the symbiosis between banks construction SMEs drivers, analysis the mechanism of front drive and rear drive factors; Based on this, through research of the Bank-Enterprises symbiotic driving forces, trying to provide financing for small and medium...
In this paper, a quasi-dimensional turbulent combustion model for SI engines is thoroughly studied. On burning rate equation, a new formula is put forward, with mechanism difference from the traditional models. In the traditional models, all different eddies formed in different periods are burnt in identical rate, while in the new formulae, every eddy has its own life and is burnt in different rate...
This short essay aims at tracing the patrimonialization process of advertising from the 19th century to nowadays. The process followed third steps. First, advertising evolved from a despised object to a valuable cultural artifact. Considered as useless or deceitful in first place, advertising has gradually managed to gain legitimacy as a useful and even necessary tool for both companies that want...
In the article there is the possibility of application of the fuzzy pay-off method presented in calculating the company value of a mining enterprise. This method was used in the method of valuation called DCF. The application of fuzzy sets allows to limit the amount of analyses to three scenarios. The scenarios correspond to, respectively, the worst situation, the most probable and most advantageous,...
The paper deals with industrial business engineering as an answer to the challenge of the sixth technological set up. The main idea is to integrate engineering and managerial education in one program. The experience and perspectives of joint German-Russian bachelor and Muster programs in the field of Industrial business education are analyzed. The authors debate the contradictions between “pure engineering”...
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