scholarly journals Greening The Supply Chain: Development Of A Computer Game To Teach Environmentally Benign Manufacturing

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Isaacs ◽  
Jay Laird ◽  
Seth Sivak ◽  
Mark Sivak
Author(s):  
Kamalendu Pal ◽  
Bill Karakostas

This chapter reviews the potential benefits and challenges of knowledge-based computer game simulation as means of understanding the dynamics of global procurement and manufacturing supply chains. In particular the chapter focuses on the use of software agents to assist decision making across the supply chain, for example in raw material procurement. The chapter describes a framework for supply chain scenarios in multi-agent based simulation games. The agents' behaviour is governed by business rules, based on the concept of normative knowledge representation and its reasoning mechanism (known as rule-based reasoning, RBR) and that also come closer to the task that confronts the supply chain operational manager – the analysis of current case in hand in terms of previously decided business problem solutions, known as case-based reasoning (CBR). The aim is to introduce more realistic behavior of the supply chain actors and improve understanding in operational management of supply chains.


2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Gutowski ◽  
Cynthia Murphy ◽  
David Allen ◽  
Diana Bauer ◽  
Bert Bras ◽  
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Author(s):  
Ahmed J. Alsaffar ◽  
Karl R. Haapala ◽  
Zhaohui Wu

As efforts continue to incorporate environmental sustainability into product design, struggles persist to concurrently consider the environmental impacts resulting from transportation planning and supply chain network design. In fact, the transportation sector is the second largest contributor to direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United States, following electricity generation. To address these concerns and consider environmental issues more holistically during the development of products, Design for X (X: manufacturing, environment, etc.) methods, such as environmentally benign manufacturing (EBM) and life cycle assessment (LCA) continue to be advanced through research. In spite of improving environmental performance through design, supply chain related impacts are not well understood and can be impacted by decisions made during product design. Thus, the aim of this research is to explore how changes to the design of a product affect manufacturing supply chain configurations and, in turn, influence product environmental sustainability. The environmental impacts for producing several three-ring binder design variations are predicted by assuming a given set of suppliers that provide materials and components to the manufacturer. Supply chain transportation impacts are also accounted for in the analysis. Transportation impacts are found to be minor compared to materials and manufacturing impacts.


Author(s):  
Dave Allen ◽  
Diana Bauer ◽  
Bert Bras ◽  
Tim Gutowski ◽  
Cindy Murphy ◽  
...  

Abstract In this paper, findings of the Panel for International Assessment of Environmentally Benign Manufacturing Technologies, sponsored by the United States National Science Foundation, are discussed. The mission of this interdisciplinary panel was to assess the international state-of-the-art in Environmentally Benign Manufacturing (EBM), and to identify priorities and collaborative opportunities. Over 50 sites in Japan, Europe and the United States were visited over the course of the yearlong study. This paper focuses on some global trends that were observed.


Author(s):  
Kamalendu Pal ◽  
Bill Karakostas

This chapter reviews the potential benefits and challenges of knowledge-based computer game simulation as means of understanding the dynamics of global procurement and manufacturing supply chains. In particular the chapter focuses on the use of software agents to assist decision making across the supply chain, for example in raw material procurement. The chapter describes a framework for supply chain scenarios in multi-agent based simulation games. The agents' behaviour is governed by business rules, based on the concept of normative knowledge representation and its reasoning mechanism (known as rule-based reasoning, RBR) and that also come closer to the task that confronts the supply chain operational manager – the analysis of current case in hand in terms of previously decided business problem solutions, known as case-based reasoning (CBR). The aim is to introduce more realistic behavior of the supply chain actors and improve understanding in operational management of supply chains.


Energies ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 1391-1409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xian-Chun Tan ◽  
Yan-Yan Wang ◽  
Bai-He Gu ◽  
Ze-Kun Mu ◽  
Can Yang

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