Paulina Golinska Libros

Innovative technologies provide opportunities for making manufacturing and logistics operations cleaner and more resource-efficient. New technologies focus on lifecycle engineering and lifecycle management. This book will be valuable to both academics and practitioners who wish to deepen their knowledge of technology management. The book will cover technical, organizational, financial and social issues connected to the implementation of more sustainable technologies.

Focusing on the complexities of materials management in remanufacturing, this book addresses the challenges posed by uncertainties in the timing, quality, and quantity of returns. It offers innovative methods and models designed to enhance material flow management, providing valuable insights for improving efficiency in the remanufacturing process.

The automotive industry is one of the most environmental aware manufacturing sectors.  Product take-back regulations influence design of the vehicles, production technologies but also the configuration of automotive reverse supply chains. The business practice comes every year closer to the closed loop supply chain concept which completely reuses, remanufactures and recycles all materials.  The book covers the emerging environmental issues in automotive industry through the whole product life cycle.  Its focus is placed on a multidisciplinary approach. It presents viewpoints of academic and industry personnel on the challenges for implementation of sustainable police in the automotive sector

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an important element in creating competitive advantages for enterprises in different sectors. The authors guide readers through the different cases studies in order to present the benchmarking of international standards and CSR initiatives, as well as CSR performance evaluation practices. This book aims to identify current problems that can arise during CSR implementation in manufacturing and services companies. Moreover some best practice examples suitable for the introduction of CSR in the small and medium size companies will be described. The authors show how different stakeholders can benefit from sustainable resource management and pro-social behaviors. This book will be a valuable resource for both academics and practitioners who want to deepen their knowledge of CSR.

Environmental awareness is driven mainly by the scarcity of natural resources and by more strict legal regulations. The modern enterprise policy should look at the relations between economic actions and ecological consequences. Ecoproduction is a new business approach which focuses on the most efficient and productive use of raw materials and natural resources in order to minimize footprints on the natural environment. This book aims to provide the state- of- the- art as well as new ideas of the environmental conscious operations management. The contributors present in the individual chapters problems related to: eco-friendly production technologies; recycling and waste reduction. Scope of topics discussed in this book covers also pollution prevention, energy efficiency. The authors describe problems of information management in complex systems

The present customers’ consumption models result in an increasing number of used products that need to be collected and reused or disposed. Remanufacturing is a favourable scenario in order to recover the end-of-use products. It allows to capture substantial part of the resources which were used in the primary production at lower cost, providing economic, environmental and social benefits. The book presents the methods, models, case studies for improvement of sustainability in remanufacturing facilities. The focus is on small- and medium-sized enterprises and their challenges to meet resource-efficiency goal.

The book focuses on efficiency analysis in enterprises and describes a broader supply-chain context to support improved sustainability. The research and its outcomes presented here provide theoretical and empirical studies on efficiency analysis in the supply chain, including operational, economic, environmental and social aspects. This book sheds new light on the efficiency-assessment framework for practitioners and includes essential tips on how to improve the sustainability of supply-chains operations.

Założeniem podręcznika jest kształtowanie praktycznych umiejętności z zakresu posługiwania się specjalistycznym językiem angielskim. Książka stanowi kompendium słownictwa, z jakim spotyka się logistyk w swojej codziennej pracy. Autorki położyły szczególny nacisk na zaprezentowanie aktualnych tekstów źródłowych, pochodzących zarówno z prasy specjalistycznej, jaki i dedykowanych portali internetowych. W podręczniku zostały zamieszczone ćwiczenia umożliwiające nabycie praktycznych umiejętności z zakresu: opracowania dokumentacji, prowadzenia korespondencji i konwersacji w języku angielskim w trakcie realizacji procesów logistycznych, w szczególności spedycji drogowej, kolejowej, morskiej i lotniczej. Zaprezentowano również współczesne trendy z obszaru logistyki i wybrane strategie logistyczne. Podręcznik został opracowany zgodnie z podstawą programową kształcenia w zawodzie technik logistyk na poziomie technikum i szkoły policealnej.