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Steps towards sustainable manufacturing through modelling material, energy and waste flows

Leigh Smith, +1 more
- 01 Nov 2012 - 
- Vol. 140, Iss: 1, pp 227-238
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Work to develop guidelines for Material, Energy and Waste (MEW) process flow modelling to support the pursuit of sustainable manufacturing is reported on.
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This article is published in International Journal of Production Economics.The article was published on 2012-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 233 citations till now.

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Quantitative models for sustainable supply chain management: Developments and directions

TL;DR: Conclusions are drawn showing that numerous possibilities and insights can be gained from expanding the types of tools and factors considered in formal modeling efforts.
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Two-echelon multiple-vehicle location-routing problem with time windows for optimization of sustainable supply chain network of perishable food

TL;DR: Results indicate that the hybrid approach achieves better solutions compared to others, and that crowding distance method for LSP outperforms the former Grids method.
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The impact of sustainable manufacturing practices on sustainability performance: Empirical evidence from Malaysia

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship of sustainable manufacturing practices with sustainability performance, which considers the environmental, economic and social aspects, and concluded that manufacturing process is the manufacturing stage that gives the most impact on the improvement of sustainability performance.
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Drivers to sustainable manufacturing practices and circular economy: a perspective of leather industries in Bangladesh

TL;DR: In this article, the authors have used graph theory and a matrix approach to examine the drivers of sustainable manufacturing practices in the leather industry of Bangladesh, and they have shown that knowledge of the circular economy is paramount to implementing sustainability manufacturing practices.
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Bi-objective integrating sustainable order allocation and sustainable supply chain network strategic design with stochastic demand using a novel robust hybrid multi-objective metaheuristic

TL;DR: A novel multi-objective hybrid approach called MOHEV with two strategies for its best particle selection procedure (BPSP), minimum distance, and crowding distance is proposed, which achieves better solutions compared with the others, and also crowdingdistance method for BPSP outperforms minimum distance.
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