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Managing engineering design in complex supply chains
The trend towards organising design, development and manufacture via supply chains, rather than predominantly in-house, poses major challenges for design management. Procurement methods based on adversarial competitive tendering are generally unsuited to complex engineering products requiring strong design and development coordination.
Literature on āsupplier partnershipsā has largely overlooked the implications for managing design and development. This paper reports the results of a major project that focuses upon this issue, concentrating on practical case studies ā from British Rail, Netherlands Railways, Rolls Royce and British Coal ā that involve the management of ādevolvedā engineering design by large business organisations.
A spectrum of approaches from in-house to fully devolved design is described. It is concluded that there does not appear to be a single best approach for managing devolved design, but that appropriate approaches for an organisation depend on its location in the supply chain and its ability to manage organisational change
Factoring sustainability into the Higher Education product-service system
This paper summarises the findings of the first phase of a major study of the environmental impacts of an important service system - higher education (HE). The study assessed three methods of providing HE: conventional campus-based courses and distance/open learning courses using print-based and electronic delivery, with the following key findings. (1) On average, the distance taught Open University (OU) courses involved 90% less energy and CO2 emissions (per unit of study) than the campus based courses, mainly due to reductions in student travel and housing energy consumption, plus scale economies in campus site utilisation. (2) The OU e-learning course had over 20% higher environmental impacts than the print-based OU course, due to higher use of computing, paper consumption for printing web-based material, and extra home heating during Internet access. Programmes to reduce the environmental impacts of HE should be broadened beyond 'greening' the campus and the curriculum to include the impacts of student travel and housing. The study challenges claims that 'de-materialisation' and using ICT to provide services such as HE necessarily reduces environmental impacts. Service system environmental impacts depend mainly on its requirements for transport and a dedicated infrastructure of buildings and equipment. ICT will only benefit the environment if they reduce the service's requirements for these elements
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People centred eco-design: consumer adoption of low and zero carbon products and systems
Literature review, research model and findings of exploratory empirical research on consumer adoption and effective use of low and zero carbon technologies ranging from a hybrid car to solar water heating systems
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Getting warmer: a field trial of heat pumps
Given the lack of data on heat pump performance in customersā homes, the Energy Saving Trust in partnership with the Open University undertook the first large-scale heat pump field trial in the UK to determine how heat pumps perform in real-life conditions. The year-long field trial monitored technical performance and customer behaviour observed at 83 sites across the UK. The findings provide valuable information about the factors that affect the success of a domestic heat pump installation. Instead of revealing outcomes along statistical grounds, or acting as a ābrand-vs-brandā competition, the field trial findings provide a discussion of key points of interest to potential consumers, including:
ā¢ Measured coefficient of performance (COP) and system efficiency
ā¢ Installation practices (both system design and performance)
ā¢ Customer behaviour (contribution by the Open University)
ā¢ Heating patterns and average internal temperatures
ā¢ Economics
This report makes recommendations for consumers, installers, manufacturers and policy makers, and identifies areas that require additional investigation and research
Vol. 22, No. 2
Contents:
Overtime Wages and the Suffer or Permit to Work Standard under the Fair Labor Standards Act, by Robin Potter
Recent Developments
Further References, compiled by Yoo-Seong Songhttps://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/iperr/1030/thumbnail.jp
Vol. 22, No. 2
Contents:
Overtime Wages and the Suffer or Permit to Work Standard under the Fair Labor Standards Act, by Robin Potter
Recent Developments
Further References, compiled by Yoo-Seong Songhttps://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/iperr/1030/thumbnail.jp
Music, Sound and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema and Radio.
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