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| − | + | This is the page for Unit 4 '''"Business and technology."''' Please read through the Powerpoint presentation carefully, and answer any questions included (these are not graded, they are just to help you learn the material). | |
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| + | ==Business, technology and manufacturing== | ||
| + | How can businesses use technology to make their manufacturing more sustainable? How are goods manufactured? How are goods checked for quality? | ||
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| + | Includes: Improving efficiency — Recycle or re-use — Improve quality and extend life — Reinvest in natural capital — History of manufacturing — Manufacturing and the environment — The manufacturing enterprise — Quality. | ||
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| + | ==Presentations== | ||
| + | * '''[http://pluto.potsdam.edu/wikichem/images/1/11/321ls04_2012.pdf Unit 4]''' (PDF, 8.2 MB)] (for browsing) <small>([[:File:321ls04 2011.pdf|download]])</small> | ||
| + | * '''[http://pluto.potsdam.edu/wikichem/images/f/f8/321ls04_2012_printable.pdf Unit 4]''' (PDF, 1.6 MB) (for printing) <small>([[:File:321ls04_2011_printable.pdf|printable.pdf|download]])</small> | ||
| + | * '''[[:File:321ls04 2012.ppt|Unit 4]]''' (Powerpoint 2003, 5.8 MB), must be downloaded. On the file page, click on the filename link near the top to download. | ||
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| + | ==Related readings== | ||
| + | *Assigned readings from "'''Technology, Humans and Society: Towards a Sustainable World'''" by '''Richard C. Dorf''', Academic Press, 2001. | ||
| + | **'''[http://pluto.potsdam.edu/wikichem/images/f/f9/DorfP101_107.pdf Pages 101-107]''': An essay by Barrett Hazelyine on Appropriate Technology. | ||
| + | **'''[http://pluto.potsdam.edu/wikichem/images/e/e5/DorfP206_210.pdf Pages 106-210]''': An essay by Ronald Mascitelli on Innovation and Environmental Sustainability. | ||
| + | **'''[http://pluto.potsdam.edu/wikichem/images/5/5e/DorfChap19.pdf Chapter 19]''': A short chapter covering "Materials and Manufacturing". | ||
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| + | *[http://webproxy.potsdam.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VFX-4GDSDV6-1&_user=10&_coverDate=12%2F31%2F2006&_rdoc=4&_fmt=summary&_orig=browse&_srch=doc-info(%23toc%236022%232006%23999859984%23627189%23FLA%23display%23Volume)&_cdi=6022&_sort=d&_docanchor=&_ct=18&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=ef468e4ccb78fea8448527b1b9d69918 Nicole van Nes, Jacqueline Cramer, "Product lifetime optimization", ''Journal of Cleaner Production'', '''14''' 1307-1318 (2006).] Just read up to the end of p1309, then read pp1314-17. For pp1310-1313, try to understand the graphs for a product with or without environmental impact during usage, but you don't need to understand the more detailed aspects of the mathematics. | ||
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This is the page for Unit 4 "Business and technology." Please read through the Powerpoint presentation carefully, and answer any questions included (these are not graded, they are just to help you learn the material).
Business, technology and manufacturing
How can businesses use technology to make their manufacturing more sustainable? How are goods manufactured? How are goods checked for quality?
Includes: Improving efficiency — Recycle or re-use — Improve quality and extend life — Reinvest in natural capital — History of manufacturing — Manufacturing and the environment — The manufacturing enterprise — Quality.
Presentations
- Unit 4 (PDF, 8.2 MB)] (for browsing) (download)
- Unit 4 (PDF, 1.6 MB) (for printing) (printable.pdf|download)
- Unit 4 (Powerpoint 2003, 5.8 MB), must be downloaded. On the file page, click on the filename link near the top to download.
Related readings
- Assigned readings from "Technology, Humans and Society: Towards a Sustainable World" by Richard C. Dorf, Academic Press, 2001.
- Pages 101-107: An essay by Barrett Hazelyine on Appropriate Technology.
- Pages 106-210: An essay by Ronald Mascitelli on Innovation and Environmental Sustainability.
- Chapter 19: A short chapter covering "Materials and Manufacturing".
- Nicole van Nes, Jacqueline Cramer, "Product lifetime optimization", Journal of Cleaner Production, 14 1307-1318 (2006). Just read up to the end of p1309, then read pp1314-17. For pp1310-1313, try to understand the graphs for a product with or without environmental impact during usage, but you don't need to understand the more detailed aspects of the mathematics.
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