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Development of Ecological Plant Indicators for a Small Sized Enterprise |
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Stefano Apolloni, Matteo M. Savino |
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Department of Industrial Design and Management University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Department of Engineering Sannium University, Benevento ,Italy
apolloni @ unina.it, matteo.savino @ unisannio.it |
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PLM-SP2, 2006 Proceedings pp. 287 - 299 |
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Environmental performance is fast becoming a selection criterion both for consumer and for industrial markets; as a matter of fact some consumer market segments use environmental criteria when selecting a brand. In industrial market, supplier selection by multinational firms can also be conditioned on vendor environmental performance. This paper attempts to explore the impact of the ISO 14000 rules on a small sized enterprise.
The purpose of this paper is to explore the implications that ISO 14000 adoption will have for SMEs, including how ISO 14000 will likely impact plant structure.
In the end we have analysed – referring to an automotive production site – the plant utilities (electricity, compressed air, heating and air conditioning, transport) with the objective to realise an EMS with the two main tasks of minimising the environmental impacts and maximising, at the same time, global performance of those utilities in terms of energy saving and maintenance activities, and global management costs. |
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