life cycle management Articles
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Life–cycle management of concrete structures
A concrete structure has to maintain its structural performance over required levels. It can be achieved both with sufficient durability design and maintenance work based on the concept of life–cycle management. This paper presents the concepts of life–cycle management for formulating and subsequently modifying the life–cycle scenario regarding structural performance assurance ...
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Life Cycle Management of RFID Cards Products
With the rapid development of economy and the rapid development of information industry, improving production methods, improving operating power, reducing operating costs and improving service quality have become the top priority of all enterprises and institutions. Fixed property management has the characteristics of wide distribution, large quantity and frequent adjustment. In the current form ...
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Product platform life cycles: a multiple case study
Product platforms are used to specify a (virtual) company's offering to the market in terms of functionality and performance. The specification covers a range of actual products and services and the platform includes choice features, options and external interfaces. Usually, the platform also specifies a number of internal interfaces, in such a way that the common architecture of the products is ...
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Product life cycle management in engineer-to-order industries
This paper analyses the characteristics of Engineer-To-Order (ETO) companies, their markets, products, internal processes and supply chains. ETO companies design, manufacture and construct plant that is highly customised. The products are complex and supplied in low volume to global markets. Privatisation and deregulation have changed the competitive criteria and the products and services ...
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Life Cycle Management-Capability Maturity Model (LCM-CMM) pilot projects 2014
As part of the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) project on integration ofresource efficiency in international supply chains funded by the European Commission, UNEP had announced call for proposals from companies interested in implementing Life Cycle Management Capability Maturity Model (LCM-CMM) in their business management and operations. Two pilot projects were awarded in India ...
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Integrating the end-of-life evaluation and planning in the product management process
Incorporating enhanced product responsibility for the end-of-life phase into product design is a challenge a manufacturer has to face today. Additional design requirements, e.g., environmental aspects, have to be considered. Furthermore, new legislation also requires the management of new processes, such as treatment and recycling. An approach for the realisation of product responsibility for the ...
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Strategic life-cycle modelling and simulation for sustainable product innovation
Many specific methods and tools have been developed to deal with sustainability problems. However, without a unifying theory it is unclear how these relate to each other and how they can be used strategically. A Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD) is being developed to cover this need for clarity and structure. The aim of the papers of this review is to study how this framework ...
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LCM - a Synthesis of Modern Management Theories
Life Cycle Management (LCM) draws together main concepts in the theory behind the many new management tools of the last decades – TQM, Benchmarking, Just-in-Time, Activity-Based Costing, Supply-Chain Management, Business Process Re-engineering, QFD, Core Competence, Learning Organisation, Empowerment. The presentation highlights the similarities and common focus point of these concepts and tools, ...
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LCM a Synthesis of Modern Management Theories.
Abstract. Life Cycle Management (LCM) draws together main concepts in the theory behind the many new management tools of the last decades – TQM, Benchmarking, Just-in-Time, Activity-Based Costing, Supply-Chain Management, Business Process Re-engineering, QFD, Core Competence, Learning Organisation, Empowerment. The presentation highlights the similarities and common focus point of these concepts ...
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Enabling Sustainable Development through sustainable consumption and production
A key aspect of moving towards Sustainable Development is Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) and enabling us to meet our human needs in more sustainable ways. This is a complex issue incorporating many facets and stakeholders. On the basis of the results of a recent industry-focused research project on these issues, this paper describes the factors necessary to enable SCP as a reality ...
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Achieving sustainability through product-service life cycle management
As present trends in economic and population growth continue, the natural environment is increasingly being stressed. Serious adverse impacts on the environment and human health from waste of electrical and electronic products have occurred in the past and continue to occur today. More and more researchers, institutes and programmes paid attention to Product Service Systems (PSS) in the last ...
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Life cycle assessment in the framework of sustainable tourism: a preliminary examination of its effectiveness and challenges
The environmental sustainability of tourism has been increasingly appearing in Local Agenda 21 and in the development policies of many countries. Although several studies have focused on sustainable tourism, only a few of them are based on life cycle assessment (LCA), the main methodology to assess environmental issues from a life cycle perspective. In order to gain a better understanding of the ...
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Towards sustainable design in the sports and leisure industry
The sports and leisure products industry, like most of the consumer products manufacturing sector has been operating very much on a disposable commodity basis. Indeed, many sports products require high levels of energy to manufacture, they exploit low-paid labour in the developing world, and they are conceived typically with little consideration of recyclability and reusability, or sustainability ...
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The application of life cycle management in decision making for sustainable development at government and corporate level: the integration of project, asset and product life cycles
Governments and corporations are increasingly pressured to incorporate economic, environmental, and social performances in their policies and decision-making processes. Although Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has traditionally focused on the environmental impacts of the life cycle phases of products, the current trend is to apply Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) to also efficiently manage processes and ...
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Reducing the environmental impacts of metal castings through life-cycle management
A reduction in casting weight, through material property enhancement and improved design, positively impacts the whole life cycle. Reducing a casting's weight not only reduces the foundry's environmental impacts but also, the demands for raw materials and energy inputs and, if that lighter casting is used in a transport application, fuel consumption and carbon dioxide output associated with the ...
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How to measure social impacts? A socio-eco-efficiency analysis by the SEEBALANCE® method
BASF has, in cooperation with Karlsruhe University, Jena University and the Oko-Institut e.V. (Germany), developed a socio-eco-efficiency analysis – the so-called SEEBALANCE®. The objective was the integration of quantified social indicators into the BASF eco-efficiency analysis. Many life cycle analyses do not include an assessment of social impacts and effects. However, in order to arrive at a ...
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Recycling: Key Component of a Sustainable Development Strategy
Recycling is a fundamental element of the life cycle management of products and their constituent materials. Canada is a major producer of metals which are used in a wide variety of products both domestically and internationally. The recycling industry is a significant player in returning valuable materials back into the economy at the end of a products useful life. Manufacturers of many of these ...
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Energetic use of scrap tires has been restricted: cement manufacturers have to switch to other substitute fuels
The use of substitute fuels (SF) had previously been regulated in § 8 (3) of the laws of life-cycle management (Kreislaufwirtschaftsgesetz-KrWG) and facilitated above all industrial companies with a high energy requirement to use SF such as scrap tires in the production of their products. But the so-called heating value regulation was now abolished on 1 June 2017. This means, among other ...
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Strategies for building material reuse and recycle
Reuse and recycling of building material is a growing area of interest and concern in many parts of the USA. Current practices and trends in the building material waste management area are examined from a building life cycle standpoint or cradle to reincarnation concept. Strategies include zero waste, integrated recycling, international approaches, reuse of materials, resource optimisation, waste ...
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Using IPPC Process Tools to Promote BATs/BEPs Related to POPs
Under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, the promotion of best available techniques (BATs) and promotion of application of best environmental practices (BEPs) became appriopriate. When applying BATs and BEPs for pollution sources, guidelines on BATs and BEPs should be adopted. The Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention, at its 3rd meeting held in 2007, ...
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