Industrial Engineering for Sustainable Industry
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 8044
Special Issue Editor
Interests: visual management theory; lean thinking; operation and supply chain design; production science
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, the use of fossil fuels such as coal and petroleum has rapidly increased with population growth, and the forests in some countries and regions have been extensively lost due to large-scale fires and deforestation. These mean massive emissions of carbon dioxide and the function decline in carbon dioxide absorption have resulted in the climate crisis, characterized by temperature rise and extreme weather that can affect human daily life. This challenge, described in terms of global warming, has become so difficult and urgent that young people have risen up while some adults turn their backs. Relevance conferences have been held internationally to establish rules and targets for aiming at the development of realistic actions and solutions.
In the industry, it is fundamental to carefully and effectively utilize physical management resources, such as workers and the machines and robots that support them and the materials that transform products and services. To address this issue, industrial engineering has contributed greatly by developing theories and methods from various viewpoints such as the study of time and human motion, process analysis, and the design of lean and safe operations in a supply chain.
This Special Issue calls for papers on the newest approaches in industrial engineering, aiming to overcome the above problems for the future.
Prof. Dr. Koichi Murata
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainable physical resources management
- time and motion analysis for sustainability
- sustainable operation and supply chain design
- lean production for sustainability
- sustainable business strategy and load maps
- sustainable industry policy
