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The Cost Competitiveness of Manufacturing in China and India: An Industry and Regional Perspective
van Ark, Bart - 2008
manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In … countries and removal of barriers to resource mobility eradicating inefficient manufacturing activity. …
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Multi-criteria methods applied in the studies of barriers identified in the implementation of reverse logistics of e-waste: A research agenda
Vieira, Barbara Oliveira; Guarnieri, Patricia; Nofal, Rose - In: Logistics 4 (2020) 2, pp. 1-14
through the refurbishment, reuse, and recycling processes. Mainly in developing countries, there are still several barriers … during the process of implementing reverse logistics, so decision-makers need to know what barriers to prioritize to propose … studies on barriers during the implementation of reverse logistics. For this purpose, we conducted a systematic literature …
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Exact Solutions to the Symmetric and Asymmetric Vehicle Routing Problem with Simultaneous Delivery and Pick-Up
Rieck, Julia; Zimmermann, Jürgen - In: BuR - Business Research 6 (2013) 1, pp. 77-92
In reverse logistics networks, products (e.g., bottles or containers) have to be transported from a depot to customer locations and, after use, from customer locations back to the depot. In order to operate economically beneficial, companies prefer a simultaneous delivery and pick-up service....
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On the alignment of lot sizing decisions in a remanufacturing system in the presence of random yield
Schulz, Tobias; Ferretti, Ivan - In: Journal of Remanufacturing 1 (2011), pp. 1-11
In the area of reverse logistics, remanufacturing has been proven to be a valuable option for product recovery. In many industries, each step of the products' recovery is carried out in lot sizes which leads to the assumption that for each of the different recovery steps some kind of fixed costs...
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Analysis of the quantities of the remanufacturing plan of perfect cost
Piñeyro, Pedro; Viera, Omar - In: Journal of Remanufacturing 2 (2012), pp. 1-8
Background: The remanufacturing plan of perfect cost makes reference to the remanufacturing plan of an optimal solution of the economic lot-sizing problem with remanufacturing (ELSR). In this paper, we address the problem of determining the quantities of the remanufacturing plan of perfect cost...
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Reverse logistics challenges in remanufacturing of automotive mechatronic devices
Sundin, Erik; Dunbäck, Otto - In: Journal of Remanufacturing 3 (2013), pp. 1-8
The remanufacturing industry as a whole and the automotive sector in particular have, over the years, proven to be beneficial to the environment and economically lucrative to the companies involved as well as to their customers. However, remanufacturing is associated with complicating...
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What are the key barriers for the further development of shale gas in China? A grey-DEMATEL approach
Wei, Dong; Liu, Hongyuan; Shi, Kai - In: Energy Reports 5 (2019), pp. 298-304
large-scale development of shale gas in China. Sixteen barriers were identified by adopting literature reviews and expert … barriers based on the sample data obtained from a questionnaire of senior experts in China's shale gas industry. The results …The evaluation and analysis of barriers that restrict the large-scale development of shale gas are beneficial to the …
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Produkte und Dienste für eine zirkuläre Wirtschaft: Ergebnisse aus dem IW-Zukunftspanel
Neligan, Adriana; Lichtenthäler, Sarah; Schmitz, Edgar - 2023
gesamte Industrie mobilisiert wird. Über eine umweltgerechte Produktgestaltung (Ökodesign)sollen Unternehmen künftig stärker … Dienstleistungen in der Industrie und unternehmensnahen Dienstleistungen spielen und welche Motivationen und Ansätze zugrunde liegen. …
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Design for remanufacturing in China: A case study of electrical and electronic equipment
Hatcher, Gillian D.; Ijomah, Winifred L.; Windmill, … - In: Journal of Remanufacturing 3 (2013), pp. 1-11
, the UK) and China. The focus of this particular study was upon 'design for remanufacture' and e-waste in China: as a …
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Suomen teollisen teknologian, tuotannon ja työllisyyden suhteellinen erikoistuminen
Pajarinen, Mika - 2010
This study analyzes trends in specialization of the Finnish industry since the 1980s. Low technology industries, such as pulp and paper, have had traditionally a large proportion of the Finnish industrial output. During the recent decades their share of output has decreased significantly and...
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