Logistic Changes to Production and some Impacts on Transportation and Materials Handling

There is presently a trend to "internalize" external transport links within the framework of large production system networks. This is made possible by the rapidly increasing capability to swiftly exchange huge masses of data within such networks and the availability of a deregulated transport sector, where the highly competitive trucking industry sets the rules. The result is new forms of logistics systems, designed to meet a set of service requirements which go beyond low cost. The impact of such systems on the evolution of material handling technologies is discussed. Details of one operational Just in Time system and one hypothetical JIT transport system connecting two production plants with particularly unmanned operations are included for the purpose of illustration

The Role of Technology in Automobile Design and Production

This mini-essay is based on work done by the Swedish team in the technology part of the Future of the Automobile Program. This program was initiated by MIT and carried out under the leadership of professors Alan Altshuler and Daniel Roos during the period 1980-84. The automobile is viewed as a product of an industrial system. The evolutionary changes of this system and its major functions of designing and producing an automobile are described. Examples of experimental car design and its role are given. The interplay between increased use of modularization and integration in designs and the change from dedicated mechanization to flexible automation in production is discussed. The concluding chapter briefly treats some Swedish experiments with alternative production systems, which explicitly deal with the social and technical dimensions of the system

Negotiating International Regimes: Lessons Learned from the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)

The UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) produced above all the beginning of a new process, rather than arriving at a singular and conclusive agreement to a specific problem - often the more common outcome of negotiation. Whereas outwardly the UNCED process was familiar, it soon was to distinguish itself as a singularly instructive set of "regime-building" negotiations. This important new work, developed by IIASA, explains and analyses the negotiation process of building international environmental regimes. Its value will be considerable as the international community faces the need to establish the variety of sub-regimes (desertification, forestry, and others) spawned by UNCED. This work offers the conceptual and practical building blocks, as learned from UNCED, to all those engaged, and interested in the means to ensure sustainable development and the economic and environmental well-being of humanity. The text is accompanied by valuable appendices

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