Do environmental regulations disproportionately affect small businesses? Evidence from the Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures survey

This paper examines whether the impact of environmental regulations differs by the size of the business. We consider the net effect of statutory, enforcement, and compliance asymmetries by estimating the relationship between plant size and pollution abatement expenditures, using establishment-level data on U.S. manufacturers from the Census Bureau's Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures (PACE) survey and from its Annual Survey of Manufactures and Census of Manufactures. We model establishments' pollution abatement operating costs (PAOC) per unit of economic activity as a function of establishment size, industry, state, and year. Our results show that PAOC intensity increases with establishment and firm size.     

家具制造业作业条件危险性评价

家具制造业属于劳动密集型企业,家具生产机械化程度相对较低,工伤事故发生频繁,因此作业条件危险性研究尤为重要。在对家具制造业机加工车间11种典型作业位置作业条件调查的基础上,首先根据文献分析与现场调查家具生产中的事故类型,归纳总结出机加工车间的四种危险事件;其次在危险指数的基础上,综合考虑危险事件的发生频率,提出加权危险指数的概念;第三使用行为抽样法观测各作业位置危险事件的发生频率,分析各作业位置危险事件发生事故的可能性及其严重程度,确定加权危险指数各指标参数;最后采用加权危险指数评价家具制造业机加工车间11种典型作业位置作业条件的危险性,找出各作业位置的安全隐患,提出安全措施建议,以希为安全管理提供依据,降低家具制造业生产事故的发生。     

Coping with seismic vulnerability: small manufacturing firms in western Athens

This paper attempts to contribute to international discourse on the responsibility of macro structures (economic and political) and private agencies for the production and distribution of vulnerability. It does so by focusing on an individual economic entity, small manufacturing firms (SMFs), in a specific location, western Athens, Greece. By evaluating the losses that SMFs sustained in the earthquake of 7 September 1999, the paper points to variations in vulnerability levels among such firms and highlights the 'sources' of vulnerability they confront. Furthermore, the SMF recovery cycle is systematically monitored in parallel with relevant public policies and state reactions to private recovery methods. The analysis illustrates processes that externalise recovery costs, alter the relationship between physical and socio-economic vulnerability and shift the vulnerability load from macro structures to individual agencies or vice versa. It is based on two methodological approaches: the division of vulnerability into three constituent components (exposure, resistance and resilience); and the conceptual split between producers and carriers of vulnerability.     

Waste minimization study in a solvent-based paint manufacturing plant

Solvent-based paint manufacturing plants produce significant quantities of hazardous waste, which must be properly treated before it can be disposed. Since the cost for treating this waste is high, reducing the quantity of waste has become a crucial issue in this industry.Waste minimization options are beneficial for the owner of the plant as well as for the environment. The quantity of hazardous waste can be minimized by changing the plant's technology or by substituting hazardous substances, which are used in the paint manufacturing process, with environmentally friendly ones. Furthermore, separating the various waste streams makes it easier to recover raw materials and enhances the possibility of their reuse within the production process. This will decrease operational costs for the plant.This paper presents a case study of waste minimization in a solvent-based paint manufacturing plant. Source reduction, recovery, and recycling methods are taken into consideration. Its aim is to develop an understanding of the facility's waste generating processes, to suggest ways to reduce the waste production, and finally to select an appropriate waste minimization option to suggest to the plant. Some of the suggested methods are currently being practiced while others are at initial stage of development.     

可重组制造系统降级运作的可靠性分析

作为一种全新的制造系统类型,笔者对可重组制造系统的一种降级运作模式进行系统整体性能和可靠性的分析与研究。针对可重组制造系统中可能存在非关键设备失效的情况,在选取系统中存在单台关键设备的条件下,建立可重组制造系统在一定时期内降级运作的有效性模型。应用马尔可夫可靠性模型对系统不同的运行状态推导出转换方程,对系统的生产率和有效性两大指标进行计算和分析。通过对系统正常状态和降级状态的有效度和生产率的比较,得出了系统存在降级运行模式时,比系统全部由关键设备组合的运行模式具有更高的生产率和有效度,并在一定条件下,系统有效度比生产率增加更快的两大结论。     

MES在原油长输管道上的应用

MES是面向执行层的工厂层信息系统,MES作为生产与计划之间的信息纽带,为ERP系统和控制系统提供关键接口,将两者的信息有效连接起来,使整个企业有了一个无缝链接的完整的信息平台。介绍了MES的结构及其在长输管道中的应用,MES是长输管道良好的信息平台。     

A system model for green manufacturing

Manufacturing systems evolution is afunction in multiple external and internal factors. With today’s global awareness of environmental risks as well as the pressing needs to compete through efficiency, manufacturing systems are evolving into a new paradigm. This paper presents a system model for the new green manufacturing paradigm. The model captures various planning activities to migrate from a less green into a greener and more eco-efficient manufacturing. The various planning stages are accompanied by the required control metrics as well as various green tools in an open mixed architecture. The system model is demonstrated by an industrial case study. The proposed model is a comprehensive qualitative answer to the question of how to design and/or improve green manufacturing systems as well as a roadmap for future quantitative research to better evaluate this new paradigm.     

直升机桨叶安装螺栓强度与疲劳寿命计算分析

目的 分析桨叶安装螺栓在不同位移载荷真实试车载荷以及螺牙缺齿情况下的剩余强度以及疲劳寿命。方法 基于有限元方法分析不同载荷下桨叶安装螺栓的对数应变,依据失效应变判定其强度,提取有限元模型的单元应力,通过临界平面法计算最大组合应力平面,运用曲线走势、损伤准则预估桨叶安装螺栓的疲劳寿命。结果 0.36 mm位移载荷下螺栓应变未达到破坏值,真实试车载荷超过4倍情况下,螺栓失效的可能性较高,螺栓断牙超过2个,失效风险较高。依据试车载荷谱,初始长度螺栓寿命为20 794 h,初始长度螺栓断1螺牙寿命为10 912 h,拉伸至29.36 mm螺栓疲劳寿命为7 725 h。结论 在额定载荷状态下,材料结构破坏的可能性小。实际载荷超过4倍、螺栓断牙超过2个情况下,应力应变状态显著恶化,桨叶安装螺栓失效的风险较高,需要预防超载荷过大的情况,还需在修理过程中关注螺栓螺纹的损伤情况,即螺纹的正常磨损可不作为故障进行更换,但出现掉牙、断牙情况则需要更换。     

Green supply chain initiatives among certified companies in Malaysia and environmental sustainability: Investigating the outcomes

The relationship between green supply chain initiatives and performance outcomes has been subject to numerous studies but the results are not conclusive. This study tries to assess the actual environmental, economic and intangible outcomes resulting from the adoption of green supply chain initiatives. This study used a structured questionnaire derived from the literature and employing a mail survey to collect responses form a group of 569 ISO 14001 certified firms in Malaysia. The results of testing the hypotheses that predicted that green supply chain initiatives have positive effect on the outcomes showed that eco-design have significant positive effect on the four types of outcomes (environmental outcomes, economic outcomes, cost reductions, and intangible outcomes). Reverse logistics was found to have significant positive effect on cost reductions only. However, green purchasing was not found to have significant effect on any of the four types of outcome. Through designing environmentally friendly products and taking back products and packaging, business organizations can generate benefits to the environment, in the form of reduced waste and better resource utilization, in addition to economic benefits and cost reductions to the organizations.     

生产安全监督管理人员的胜任特征模型

安全管理工作是关系到企业平稳发展、员工生命安危至关重要的职位,安全监管人员的招聘、培训、考核和晋升是目前企业不够重视却十分重要的问题,因此建构安全监管人员的胜任特征模型有着重要的现实意义。本文对在安全管理处于领先地位的生产型企业的安全管理状况进行了深度访谈,在此基础上开发了安全监管人员胜任特征调查问卷,对浙江、山东、江苏省的10家企业进行了大样本调查,并进行了探索性和验证性因素分析,构建了安全管理人员的胜任特征模型,包括敬业自信、踏实认真、创新运作、团队合作、积极主动这五方面,并且进行了方差分析,证明该模型能够区分和预测安全管理绩效,具有岗位针对性和可应用性。