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International Journal of Sustainable Manufacturing  (IJSM)

Year: 2011  Volume: 2 - Issue: 2/3

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TitleAuthorsAbstractPages
Aqueous cleaning of manufactured parts/components: establishing the role of solution quality
DOI: 10.1504/IJSM.2011.042148
Liam Pettigrew, Long D. NghiemParts cleaning has gradually replaced solvent based cleaning during the manufacturing of parts and in maintenance workshop as a much more sustainable and cost benefit technology. In this study, the performance of aqueous parts cleaning was ...127 - 140
Optimal vehicle batching and sequencing to reduce energy consumption and atmospheric emissions in automotive paint shops
DOI: 10.1504/IJSM.2011.042148
Junwen Wang, Jingshan Li, Ningjian HuangReducing energy consumption and carbon emissions is an important issue to achieve sustainable manufacturing. In automotive assembly plants, the largest amount of energy consumption and atmospheric emissions is in paint shop. Optimising the ...141 - 160
A game theory model for analysing market competition in sustainable manufacturing industry
DOI: 10.1504/IJSM.2011.042148
Guiping Hu, Lizhi Wang, Bopaya BidandaAs the global awareness and concerns about the environment issues increase, many governments, regulatory organisations and business leaders have begun to call on the manufacturing and business communities to play leading roles in the proces...161 - 179
Sustainable value co-creation through mass customisation: a framework
DOI: 10.1504/IJSM.2011.042148
Fazleena Badurdeen, Jayantha P. LiyanageAdopting sustainability considerations in businesses is no longer a choice for companies. Sustainable value co-creation by customers and producers collectively considering environmental and societal implications is essential to increase val...180 - 203
A measurement infrastructure for sustainable manufacturing
DOI: 10.1504/IJSM.2011.042148
Shaw C. Feng, Che B. JoungGlobal resource degradation, climate change, and environmental pollution are worsening due to increasing globalised industrialisation. Manufacturing industries have thus been put under pressure to cope with these problems while maintaining ...204 - 221
A life cycle greenhouse gas assessment of remanufactured refrigeration and air conditioning compressors
DOI: 10.1504/IJSM.2011.042148
Wahidul Biswas, Michele RosanoRemanufacturing can importantly reduce the resource intensity and increase the eco-efficiency of product systems by utilising recovered end of life (EOL) parts. A life cycle assessment (LCA) has been carried out to determine the greenhouse ...222 - 236
Summary of the NIST workshop on sustainable manufacturing: metrics, standards, and infrastructure
DOI: 10.1504/IJSM.2011.042148
Sudarsan Rachuri, Ram D. Sriram, Anantha Narayanan, Prabir Sarkar, Jae Hyun Lee, Kevin W. Lyons, Vijay Srinivasan, Sharon J. KemmererThis report summarises the presentations, discussions, and recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Workshop |Sustainable Manufacturing: Metrics, Standards, and Infrastructure| held at NIST, Gaithersburg,...237 - 259