When firms are endowed with volume flexibility, capacity investment may influence the subsequent production process via affecting the structure of production cost. Yet, the strategic interaction between capacity and production decisions has not been...
Laser Metal Deposition (LMD) is an advanced Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology widely used for metal component fabrication, cladding, and repair. Despite its potential, issues such as geometrical inaccuracies and deposition flaws can significantl...
The main aim of the manuscript was to investigate the impact of modifying the parameters of the gas nitriding process of samples made from AISI 1085 steel on the course and results of the process carried out in a chemical reactor allowing for thermog...
Introduction: Real-time monitoring and control are critical components of modern industrial processes, enabling operators to optimize production efficiency, ensure product quality, and minimize operational costs [...]
The ecological efficiency (EE) of the remanufacturing process occupies an important position in the whole index system of remanufacturing because it will directly affect the economic and environmental benefits of remanufacturing. Therefore, in order...
An important aspect of water treatment is removing fine-grain materials from water. Due to the properties of fine-grain materials, they are difficult to remove from water. During the sedimentation process, which takes place in settling tanks, such ma...
This study introduces an intrinsic Gaussian Process Regression (iGPR) model for the first time, which incorporates non-Euclidean spatial covariates via a Gaussian process prior to analyzing the relationship between digitalization and carbon emission...
A process improvement in a tablet manufacturing process within a pharmaceutical industry was carried out based on an eco-efficiency approach. As it is one of the most energy consuming processes in the production line, the tablet manufacturing process...
The roasting of phosphate pellets is an energy-intensive process the optimization of which can give rise to considerable efficiency improvements. To this purpose, the mathematical modeling and the computer-aided simulation of a multi-stage process of...
This study examines the heterogeneous effects of product environmental innovation on firm-level innovation efficiency and performance in process industries, with a focus on the chemical and electronics sectors. Following the Organisation for Economic...
In order to decrease energy consumption caused by the dense deployment of pico base stations (PBSs) in heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets), this paper first analyzes the energy efficiency (EE) of two-tier HetNets and then proposes a method to m...
As one of the basic industries in the manufacturing industry, the modeling and evaluation of resource utilization efficiency in the machining process is the premise of energy conservation and consumption reduction in the manufacturing industry. Mecha...
Natural rubber (NR) block production from cup lump conventionally requires multiple mechanical processing stages, resulting in high energy consumption and complex manufacturing operations. This study presents a modern process approach by using a Rota...
The transition toward circular and resource-efficient industrial systems requires effective strategies for recovering secondary raw materials, reducing resource losses, and improving the environmental and economic performance of industrial processes....
This study employs the Super-SBM model to evaluate the green efficiency of agricultural water use (GEAW) at the municipal level across China from 2013 to 2022. Urbanization levels are systematically assessed using the entropy weight method. Grounded...
Low-pressure carburising (LPC) of steel is an industrially accepted method for improving the properties of a steel surface. LPC is environmentally friendly, does not cause intergranular oxidation and consumes less energy. Its effectiveness depends on...
This paper delves into the multifaceted domain of the aerospace industry, examining its evolution, current challenges, and imperative focus on quality management and process integration. The aerospace sector, driven by technological advancements and...
Ultrafiltration (UF) and microfiltration (MF) are widely-used technologies to standardize the protein content of cheesemilk. Our previous work demonstrated that protein retention of a 0.1-µm MF spiral-wound membrane (SWM) was lower, but close t...
The petrochemical industry is a pillar industry for the development of the national economy affecting people’s daily living standards. Crude distillation process is the core and leading unit of the petrochemical industry. Its energy consumption...
As a key component of the Tempcore process, the Tempcore cooler plays a critical role in enhancing the cooling efficiency of steel bars. A cylindrical corrugated tube designed specifically for the Tempcore cooling process of large diameter steel bars...
The present paper proposes a steel industry case study focused on a reheating furnace and a rolling mill. Hardware and software innovations were successfully combined in order to obtain process control and energy efficiency improvement. The reheating...
The evaluation of vegetable production process efficiency is of great significance for energy saving and waste reduction in production processes. However, few studies have considered the effect of greenhouse vegetable production process efficiency on...
Industrial process systems must reduce energy use and carbon emissions while maintaining productivity under binding constraints. Energy-use rights trading (EURT), also referred to as energy-consuming rights trading, energy quota trading, or energy-co...
The snow falling on the surface of photovoltaic modules tends to reduce the output power. In order to understand the process of snow accumulating on solar photovoltaic modules and reveal the impact of snow accumulation on photovoltaic conversion effi...
The coordinated optimization of energy conservation, efficiency improvement, and pollution reduction in the sintering production process is vital for the efficient and sustainable development of the sintering department. However, previous studies hav...
This paper examines the efficiency of tourist farms in Slovenia by adopting an approach using a framework of non-parametric programming—Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), combining the two because the DEA anal...
The optimization of the production process of metal mines has been traditionally driven only by economic benefits while ignoring resource efficiency. However, it has become increasingly aware of the importance of resource efficiency since mineral res...
Additive manufacturing via LCD vat photopolymerisation enables direct bonding of photopolymer to textile substrates, but optimal processing parameters remain unclear. A 3 × 3 factorial design investigated the effects of layer thickness (0.01, 0...
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are widely used as energy storage systems. With the growing interest in electric vehicles, battery performance related to traveling distance has become more important. Therefore, there are various studies going on to achi...
In this study, we developed a rapid and effective method for enriching the culture of nitrifying bioflocs (NBF) from aquacultural brackish water. The self-designed mixotrophic mediums with a single or mixed addition of sodium acetate, sodium citrate,...
A multi-pass equal-channel angular pressing (helical channel angular pressing-parallel channel, HCAP-PC) is proposed to enhance process efficiency and avoid plastic deformation damage during the preparation of ultrafine-grained age hardened aluminum...
Material efficiency is one of the most important strategies for helping manufacturing companies achieve sustainability in their production activities. However, there are many barriers to the implementation of material efficiency strategies in the man...
Thermoplastic polymers like ethylene-octene copolymer (EOC) may be grafted with silanes via reactive extrusion to enable subsequent crosslinking for advanced biomaterials manufacture. However, this reactive extrusion process is difficult to control a...
In the context of global value chain restructuring and accelerating digital transformation, enterprise competition is increasingly shifting toward sustainable systemic efficiency centered on supply chain operations. Although financial robotic process...
Due to the dense deployment of base stations (BSs) in heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs), the energy efficiency (EE) of HCN has attracted the attention of academia and industry. Considering its mathematical tractability, the Poisson point process...
Organometallic reagents such as organolithium compounds and Grignard reagents are essential in the synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), including dimetindene maleate. Their high reactivity, combined with pyrophoricity and thermal in...
In this paper, on the basis of a theoretical analysis, we quantitatively explore the impact of urbanization on agricultural technical efficiency after measuring the agricultural technical efficiency and the urbanization level, from the perspective of...
The Austrian school economics and neo-Marxist theories both have been reviving in recent years. However, the current academic discussion lacks a debate between two schools of economics with diametrically opposed views. This paper is the first and an...
Grounded in dynamic capability theory, this research examines the impact of AI-enabled logistics optimization (ALO) on logistics process efficiency (LPE) and sustainable supply chain performance (SSCP). It further explores the mediation of LPE and th...
One or more isothermal heating process was introduced to modify single and regenerative Brayton cycles by some scholars, which effectively improved the thermal efficiency and significantly reduced the emissions. To analyze and optimize the performanc...
The increasing importance of sustainability in the manufacturing industry necessitates that, alongside economic efficiency, resource and energy consumption must also be taken into account when planning manufacturing processes. In particular, the mech...
Robotic process automation (RPA) is a popular process automation technology that leverages software to play the function of humans when employing graphical user interfaces. RPA’s scope is limited, and various requirements must be met for it to...
The increasingly serious imbalance between the supply and demand of water resources necessitates the establishment of a scientific and reasonable comprehensive evaluation method for industrial water use efficiency (WUE). In this study, a general meth...
The evaporation process, boiler, and turbine are the main components of the cogeneration system of the sugar factory. In the conventional process, the evaporator requires extracted steam from the turbine, and bled vapor from the evaporator is supplie...
In the last years of the past century, complex correlation structures were empirically observed, both in aggregated and individual traffic traces, including long-range dependence, large-timescale self-similarity and multi-fractality. The use of stoch...
In the aftermath of the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement (COP21) by virtually all United Nations, producing more with less is imperative. In this context, phosphorus processing, despite its high efficiency...
The chemical industry is considered to be one of the largest consumers of energy in the manufacturing sector. As the cost of energy is rising rapidly, coupled with the increasingly stringent standards for the release of harmful chemicals and gases in...
The pursuit of energy efficiency in machining processes is a critical aspect of sustainable manufacturing. A significant portion of global energy consumption is by the industrial sector; thus, improving the energy efficiency of machining processes ca...
The need to reduce electricity consumption by electrical devices, including electric motors, is the reason for the development of new designs. Designers strive to improve operational parameters, including efficiency, using, for example, new types of...
This study compares the effects of pure kraft lignin and the kraft lignin/silica system (1:4 by weight). The comparative analysis of the physicochemical properties of both carriers showed that the kraft lignin/silica system was characterised by bette...
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