Development of a management tool for assessing environmental performance in SMEs' design and production

Advances in Life Cycle Engineering for Sustainable Manufacturing Businesses - Proceedings of the 14th CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 383-388

  Woolman, Tim ^a   Veshagh, Alireza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental performance; Management tool; Manufacturing; SME

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; BISMUTH ALLOYS; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; LIFE CYCLE; MANUFACTURE; PRODUCT DESIGN; SUPPLY CHAINS;

DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS; LIFE CYCLE ENGINEERING; LIFE CYCLE IMPACTS; MANAGEMENT TOOL; SELF ASSESSMENT; SPREADSHEET TOOLS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 80052129232     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84628-935-4_66     Document Type: Conference Paper

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