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Sustainability index development for manufacturing industry
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In this article, an interactive model has been developed to determine the sustainability index of manufacturing plants based on user responses, which is able to provide suggestions to improve sustainability as well as carbon footprint reduction.About:
This article is published in Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments.The article was published on 2017-02-28. It has received 41 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sustainability organizations & Environmental Sustainability Index.read more
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Environmental Performance Index
TL;DR: Yale's Environmental Performance Index (EPI) as discussed by the authors has emerged as the premier framework of national-scale metrics for global environmental policy analysis and is used by the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy (YCELP).
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A framework to achieve sustainability in manufacturing organisations of developing economies using industry 4.0 technologies’ enablers
TL;DR: The findings of the study reveal that managerial and economical, and environmental enablers possess a strong contribution toward sustainability adoption in manufacturing organisations of developing nations using Industry 4.0 technologies.
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Proposal of a Sustainable Circular Index for Manufacturing Companies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a sustainable circular index (SCI) to assess the sustainability and the circularity of manufacturing companies based on a five-phase framework, which could support managers in assessing their level of sustainability and circularity and in implementing some practices that could improve the performances of their companies regarding these two topics.
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Measuring industrial sustainability performance: Empirical evidence from Italian and German manufacturing small and medium enterprises
TL;DR: In this article, a multiple case analysis of 26 small and medium manufacturing enterprises across Germany and Italy operating in the chemical and metalworking sectors was conducted to understand the level of adoption of industrial sustainability indicators and the issues preventing their effective measurement.
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Industry 4.0 enablers for a cleaner production and circular economy within the context of business ethics: a study in a developing country
TL;DR: In this article, a framework is proposed to assess the importance of Industry 4.0 enablers for implementing Cleaner Production (CP) and Circular Economy (CE) practices in the context of ethical societies and assess an industry's readiness.
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Development of NASA-TLX (Task Load Index): Results of Empirical and Theoretical Research
TL;DR: In this article, the results of a multi-year research program to identify the factors associated with variations in subjective workload within and between different types of tasks are reviewed, including task-, behavior-, and subject-related correlates of subjective workload experiences.
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An overview of sustainability assessment methodologies
TL;DR: Sustainability indicators and composite index are increasingly recognized as a useful tool for policy making and public communication in conveying information on countries and corporate performance in fields such as environment, economy, society, or technological improvement as mentioned in this paper.
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Impact of lean manufacturing and environmental management on business performance: An empirical study of manufacturing firms
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored relationships between lean manufacturing practices, environmental management (e.g., environmental management practices and environmental performance) and business performance outcomes, including market and financial performance.
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Measuring the immeasurable: a survey of substainability indices
TL;DR: This article reviewed the explanatory power of various sustainability indices applied in policy practice and showed that these indices fail to fulfill fundamental scientific requirements making them rather useless if not misleading with respect to policy advice.