The complexity of today's industrial production networks constitutes a new challenge for industrial risk and safety management. In order to handle potential risks to and emanating from industry and their respective impact on mankind as well as the environment, an integrated approach to...

Inter-company production networks can improve the resource efficiency of production processes. This book shows the results of the research project „Integrated Process Design for the Inter-Company Plant Layout Planning of Dynamic Mass Flow Networks“ (PepOn). A systematic approach for process...

Integrated technique assessment aims at a holistic approach to process design and operations planning, since changes in materials and operating states influence the whole supply chain. The combination of methods of process integration, engineering and Operations Research (OR) allows the...

Die Planung umweltfreundlicher Produkte und Produktionsprozesse stellt eine Herausforderung für die industrielle Produktion dar. Eine wichtige ökonomische Fragestellung besteht dabei in der Bestimmung der optimalen Emissionsminderungsstrategie, um die geforderten Emissionsminderungen mit...