Eco-design in total environmental quality management: Design for environment in milk-products industry

TQM Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 47-58

  Besseris, George J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Design for environment; Design of experiments; Eco quality screening; Environmental improvement; Environmental management; Pollution control; Quality optimization

Indexed keywords

DESIGN FOR ENVIRONMENT; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; DISTRIBUTION-FREE; ECODESIGN; ECOLOGICAL QUALITY; EN-ROUTE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION; MINIMUM LOAD; MULTI-FACTOR; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; ORDER STATISTICS; ORTHOGONAL ARRAY; PLANNING SCHEME; QUALITY MANAGERS; QUALITY OPTIMIZATION; RESPONSE DATA; SOFTWARE AID; TAGUCHI; TAGUCHI DESIGN;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DATA REDUCTION; DESIGN; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; EXPERIMENTS; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); OPTIMIZATION; OXYGEN; POLLUTION CONTROL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84555190808     PISSN: 17542731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17542731211191212     Document Type: Article

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