Purpose – Emergency situations may differ in many ways but they share some common characteristics, such as the sudden onset and the need to transparently evaluate various usually conflicting objectives. In nuclear power generation, however, emergency situations constitute a special challenge....

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...