Belt conveyor systems play an important role in dry bulk material handling. Speed control is
a promising solution to improve energy efficiency of belt conveyors. Active speed control …

The ship owner's decision to select a recycling yard for dismantling and recycling an end-of-
life ship is primarily influenced by the price offered for purchasing the ship. The recycling …

The purpose of this publication is to characterize the philosophy of TQM guidelines and
show how this implementation can improve logistics operations. The article is based on an …

Gaming simulations (games) for policy and decision making have been the neglected
“sibling” of educational and training games. The latter have experienced a widespread …

The future will bring increasing demands from society for a better quality of life and for more
sustainable designs also in port handling facilities. Moreover, scarcity of land forces port …

Concepts of function are central to design but statements about a device's functions can be
interpreted in different ways. This raises problems for researchers trying to clarify the …

Research to date for decision-making on outsourcing has almost exclusively focussed on
strategic and operational levels. Consequently, we know relatively little about decision …

Ship recycling marks the end of the life cycle of a ship. The underlying principle of recycling
activity is to support sustainable development of the environment by recycling every year, on …

Electrical networks, flocking birds, transportation hubs, weather patterns, commercial
organisations, swarming robots... Increasingly, many of the systems that we want to engineer …

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in sustainable dairy
production, hel** the industry to develop more sustainable dairy products, through new …