Life Cycle Assessment ENMN 429 Instructor: Will Low Erkens Gjini‚ August 10‚ 2014 Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a tool for the systematic evaluation of the environmental aspects of a product or service system through all stages of its life cycle.1Understanding the environmental impacts of your operations‚ products‚ services or technology will improve humankind’s relationship to the environment‚ but is also a strategy to ensure a business’s viability in today’s rapidly evolving economies. As
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Case: Assembling Smartphones: TaktTime ≠ CycleTime? When a company wants to achieve a competitive advantage through improvement in its operation management (OP)‚ by transforming a process‚ managers‚ engineers‚ etc.‚ it first needs to create a theoretical process design‚ which is based on a “trade-off” of efficientness (Simon‚ 1947) and not only in efficiency or resource allocation. Indeed‚ more than quality and time‚ cost are taken into account: efficiency at lower cost. But it should be noticed
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seems to be everywhere you look. For the past years we have seen how APPLE Computers Inc. has not only introduced the Ipod into the market for music players‚ but created the new must have pop icon. The following is a brief analysis of the product life cycle of iPods. iPods were first introduced to in 2001 and has since grown into a recognized cultural symbol. Designed and marketed by Apple Computer‚ iPod is a brand of digital audio/video players that stand apart from the rest due to their user friendly
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Purchasing life insurance is a widely accept money management approach in United States. People are willing to buy life insurance to avoid paying inheritance tax and financial hardship for families due to their death. It has been found that life insurance industry‚ being a financial intermediation‚ has contributed significantly to economic growth over a 30-year period (USAID‚ 2006) in USA. However‚ a research by Standard & Poor’s (S&P) (Gaskel‚ 2011) has drawn attention‚ which shows that
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The PLC concept is very useful to marketers and brand managers for many reasons. First of all‚ the concept establishes that products follow a life cycle that starts when they are launched‚ from there they will grow and will‚ one day‚ die. However‚ the most important advantage of this model is that it divides the life of a product in several stages with different characteristics‚ mostly based on the sales level and growth: introduction‚ growth‚ maturity and decline. This division allows managers
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economic life cycle assessment of aluminum-silicon alloys production: a case study in China. Authors: Hong‚ Jingmin1‚2 Zhou‚ Jing2 Hong‚ Jinglan3 hongjing@sdu.edu.cn Xu‚ Xu3 Source: Journal of Cleaner Production; Mar2012‚ Vol. 24‚ p11-19‚ 9p Document Type: Article Subject Terms: *ALUMINUM-silver alloys *PRODUCTION (Economic theory) *ECONOMIC impact *CASE study (Research) *DEMAND (Economic theory) *RAW materials *CONSUMPTION (Economics) Geographic Terms: CHINA NAICS/Industry Codes:
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Why do 4ps now being changed to 4cs? Marketing always was known with the Marketing mix or 4Ps which are: * Product - It includes your entire product or service related activities. Like product design‚ product development‚ variety‚ quality and branding etc. * Price - You have to set the price of the products for customers considering discounts and credit - debit policy. * Place - It includes activities related with the distribution of your product or services like your various distribution
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About The Product * The brand was first introduced in the United States in 1991 for a breakfast cereal bars consisting of fruit filling covered in a crust without added sugar. * There were four varieties initially (rye‚ corn‚ barley and wheat); later these were reduced to corn and wheat * There are various Nutri-Grain Bars made from the breakfast cereal bonded together‚ available in the markets where the cereal is available. The bars became popular in the 1990s as an "on-the-go" food
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Smartphones are an Essential Part of Society Smartphones are helping people to be more efficient‚ but with some side effects. “Many colleges and universities are further pushing the boundaries of services that can be delivered on smartphones” (Gordon 2007). Even though smartphones are making the human race complacent and dependent‚ these mobile devices are useful tools because they make life easy and keep one organized in a fast-paced world. “Wake Forest has a MobileU (mobileu.wfu.edu) pilot
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Mealworms go through a similar life cycle to that of a butterfly in that they go through 4 different maturation stages during their life. These cycles in order are egg‚ larvae‚ pupae‚ and finally the adult stage. The freshly hatched mealworms have one major goal‚ to eat. The larval mealworms are a caramel color and are very active. Mealworms eat plant matter. As the larvae get larger they will molt multiple times throughout the larval stage. The mealworms will continue to eat until they have stored
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