TY - GEN
T1 - Understanding and evaluating environmental costs of manufacturing
T2 - Proceedings of the 1991 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology - PICMET '91
AU - Sylla, Cheickna
PY - 1992
Y1 - 1992
N2 - It is noted that the collection, processing, recycling, and disposal of manufacturing-generated waste presents a significant engineering problem and a new major challenge to industrial engineers and managers. The author attempts to make industrial engineers and managers recognize that, in today's manufacturing, environmental-related waste avoidance and other considerations are very much among the key determinants of the success and failure of an enterprise. Thus, an effort is made to improve the thinking of these professionals and to provide a first step toward an integrated approach based on IE and EM principles in dealing with environmental costs and related problems, and for including these in a manufacturing program for actions.
AB - It is noted that the collection, processing, recycling, and disposal of manufacturing-generated waste presents a significant engineering problem and a new major challenge to industrial engineers and managers. The author attempts to make industrial engineers and managers recognize that, in today's manufacturing, environmental-related waste avoidance and other considerations are very much among the key determinants of the success and failure of an enterprise. Thus, an effort is made to improve the thinking of these professionals and to provide a first step toward an integrated approach based on IE and EM principles in dealing with environmental costs and related problems, and for including these in a manufacturing program for actions.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0027045699
SN - 0780301617
T3 - 91 Portland Int Conf Manage Eng Technol
SP - 432
EP - 435
BT - 91 Portland Int Conf Manage Eng Technol
PB - Publ by IEEE
Y2 - 27 October 1991 through 31 October 1991
ER -