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The sharing economy model, i.e. the sharing economy, the sharing economy, the collaborative economy, is an important element of what is more broadly referred to as a sustainable circular economy. On the other hand, the processes of green transformation of economies aimed, among other things, at reducing the consumption of natural resources, decreasing waste generation and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions are expected to lead to a reduction in the scale of carbon emissions, i.e. greenhouse gas emissions and thus slow down the progressive process of global warming and reduce the scale of environmental pollution, reduce the scale of loss of biodiversity of natural ecosystems and the consumption of strategic natural resources such as water and rare raw materials. The phenomenon is based on people's willingness to cooperate, help others and share their time and resources, which is reciprocated in various ways (material and non-material). In the past, this form of cooperation was limited to a narrow circle of family, friends and neighbours, and with mass production, the development of trade and services and stronger migration resulting in the separation of multi-generational families and the loss of networks of acquaintances, this phenomenon slowly lost its importance and its functions were taken over by companies and institutions (e.g. public institutions). The other side of human nature, which is the desire to compete and look after narrowly defined self-interest, is the basis of classical economics, but under market economy conditions it sometimes leads to distortions (exploitation, fraud, etc.). Thanks to the development and application of new technologies, collaborative economics is once again gaining popularity and economic rationality. A key determinant of the dynamic development of the sharing economy was the financial crisis in 2008, as well as the need to save money, make better use of resources and change social relations. The development of the concept of a sustainable circular economy should therefore also take the sharing economy into account. The circular economy takes into account, among other things, the minimisation of the environmental impact of the production cycle. An important element of the closed loop economy can be the production method called in Polish 'from cradle to cradle'. This idea specifies methods for designing and producing objects in accordance with the concept of sustainable development, so that, at the end of their useful life, they can be put back into the production cycle. The circular economy also has a territorial dimension. In the context of the functioning of regions and especially urban areas, it refers to yet other economic solutions, e.g. the concept of the sharing economy, according to which unlimited consumption or accumulation of property gives way to sharing, exchanging or borrowing. According to this concept, people give up many goods for their own exclusive use in favour of others, i.e. they reduce the need for products whose production cycle often requires large amounts of raw materials and energy. The sharing economy is defined as a social and economic phenomenon that involves a shift in organisational and distribution models towards distributed networks of interconnected individuals and communities, involving both the direct provision of services by people to each other, as well as sharing, co-creation, co-direction, etc., enabling a radical increase in resource efficiency. Accordingly, the sharing economy model is an essential component of a sustainable circular economy and thus a sustainable green zero-carbon economy or one that strives towards zero-carbon.

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

What is your opinion on this subject?

Please respond,

I invite you all to discuss,

Thank you very much,

Best wishes,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Hello fellow researchers,

I'm writing to suggest a mutual citation exchange to encourage collaboration and support within our academic community. I have recently published the following papers and would greatly appreciate citations from fellow researchers in related fields.

In return, I am more than willing to reciprocate by citing your work in my future publications. Below I have provided a list of articles for your consideration:

Camargo, F. G. (2021b). Survey and calculation of the energy potential and solar, wind and biomass EROI: application to a case study in Argentina. DYNA, 88(219), 50-58. https://doi.org/10.15446/dyna.v88n219.95569

Camargo, F. G. (2022c). Dynamic Modeling Of The Energy Returned On Invested. DYNA, 89(221), 50–59. https://doi.org/10.15446/dyna.v89n221.97965

Camargo, F. G. (2022d). Fuzzy multi-objective optimization of the energy transition towards renewable energies with a mixed methodology. Production, 32, e20210132. https://doi.org/10.1590/0103-6513.20210132

Camargo, F. G. (2023e). A hybrid novel method to economically evaluate the carbon dioxide emissions in the productive chain of Argentina. Production, 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0103-6513.20220053

Camargo, F. G., Schweickardt, G. A., & Casanova, C. A. (2018). Maps of Intrinsic Cost (IC) in reliability problems of medium voltage power distribution systems through a Fuzzy multi-objective model. Dyna, 85(204), 334-343. https://doi.org/10.15446/dyna.v85n204.65836

Please feel free to reach out if you're interested in this collaboration or have any questions. Looking forward to connecting and exchanging citations!

Best regards,

PhD Camargo Federico Gabriel

Technology Activities and Renewable Energies Group

La Rioja Regional Faculty of the National Technological University, Argentina.

In recent years, energy prices in Poland have been rising rapidly, which has been mainly due to the dominance of dirty combustion energy in the energy mix of energy sources, low expenditures on the modernization of the infrastructure of energy transmission networks and the development of renewable and emission-free energy sources, and the still ongoing practice of allocating large financial subsidies from the state's public finance system to maintain economically unviable deep coal mines and combustion energy installations. When energy prices are high, one of the negative consequences of this is higher costs for industrial production and for offering services. Thus, by high energy prices, industries in a certain country become less competitive with industries in other countries. For example, high energy prices in Poland, which are caused by the archaic structure of energy sources mainly based on dirty combustion energy, cause a decrease in the competitiveness of Polish industry in relation to the industry of the US and China, where green, pro-climate and pro-environmental investments in energy and other sectors of the economy are being developed on a large scale. In this economic race for the smooth implementation of the green transformation of energy and other sectors of the economy, those countries that will be the first and on the largest scale to implement the process of green transformation of the economy will win, then thanks to this the price of energy in these countries will quickly fall, industries will become more competitive in terms of production and cost, and in these countries industry will develop to the greatest extent and these countries will win economically in the 21st century. If the process of green transformation of energy and other sectors of the economy is not significantly accelerated in the next few years, the industry in Poland will become even more uncompetitive with the industry of China, the US and other countries in the future. The result will be a slowdown in the country's economic development and, in the next few years, perhaps a serious economic, financial and debt crisis in the state's public finance system. However, if the economic policy in Poland is appropriately modified and the issue of green energy transformation is seriously considered in it, then in the perspective of the next few years there should be a significant decline in energy prices, industrial production costs will fall and domestic industrial production will become more competitive, which will be an important element of effective economic development.

The key issues of the problematic sources of Poland's exceptionally deep energy cross in 2022 are described in my co-authored article below:

Key aspects of the green transformation of the economy as an important segment of building a green, sustainable economy are described in my article:

I invite you to familiarize yourself with the issues described in the publications given above, as well as to scientific cooperation in these issues.

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

And what is your opinion about it?

What is your opinion on this issue?

Please answer,

I invite everyone to join the discussion,

Thank you very much,

Best wishes,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Heuristically, I suppose people consider films more successful the greater the return on investment(ROI). Stimuli: ”Successful films are often based on classics due to relatability and interest”(Ohnemus 2023). “My film career was and is perhaps successful despite my lack of technical skills. Arts have both applications and fundamentals”(Ohnemus 2023). Source:

Since the release of an intelligent chatbot built on the ChatGPT language model on the Internet in November 2021, the scale of ongoing discussions on the topic of the impact of the development of artificial intelligence technology on labor markets has increased again. Each successive technological revolution has largely generated changes in labor markets. The increase in the scale of automation of manufacturing processes carried out as part of business operations was motivated by the reduction of operational personnel costs resulting from hired personnel. Automation of manufacturing processes, including processes of production and offering services, may also have reduced the level of personnel operational risk. As a result, companies, firms and, in recent years, financial institutions and public entities, through the implementation of ICT, Internet and Industry 4.0/5.0 technologies in various business processes, are improving the efficiency of business processes and increasing the economic profitability of these processes. In each of the previous four technological revolutions, in spite of changing technical solutions and emerging new technologies, analogous processes of using these new technological advances to increase the scale of automation of economic processes worked. In the era of the current fourth or fifth technological revolution, in which a special role is played by the development of generative artificial intelligence technology, applications of this technology in the development of robotics, building autonomous robots, increasing the scale of cooperation between humans and highly intelligent androids is also making a new appearance and another stage of increasing the scale of automation of manufacturing processes. However, what from the point of view of entrepreneurs thanks to the applied new technologies, the achieved automation of production processes is an increase in the efficiency of manufacturing processes, increasing the scale of economic profitability, etc., is, on the other hand, generating serious effects on labor markets, including, among other things, a reduction in employment in certain jobs. The largest scale of applied automation of economic processes and, at the same time, the largest scale of employment reduction was and is generated for those jobs that are characterized by a high level of repetition of certain activities. The activities carried out by employees that are characterized by a high level of repetitiveness were usually the first ones that could be and have been replaced by technology in a relatively simple way. this is also the case today in the era of the fifth technological revolution, in which highly advanced intelligent information systems and autonomous androids equipped with generative artificial intelligence technologies contribute to the reduction of employment in companies and enterprises where humans are replaced by such technology. A particular manifestation of these trends are the group layoffs announced starting in 2022 of employees, including IT specialists in technology companies that the aforementioned advanced technologies of Industry 4.0/5.0 are also creating, developing and implementing into their economic processes carried out in the aforementioned technology companies. Recently, there have been a lot of different kinds of predictive analysis results in the media suggesting which occupations and professions previously performed by people are most at risk of increasing unemployment in the future due to the development of business applications of generative artificial intelligence technologies. In the first months of ChatGPT's release, the Internet was dominated by a number of publications suggesting that a significant portion of jobs in many industries will be replaced by AI technology over the next few decades. Then, after another few months of the development of applications of intelligent chatbots, but also the revelation of many controversies and risks associated with it such as the development of cybercrime and disinformation on the Internet, this dominant opinion began to change in the direction of slightly less pessimistic. these less pessimistic opinions suggest that the technology of generative artificial intelligence does not necessarily deprive the majority of employees in companies and enterprises of their jobs only the majority of employees will be forced to use these new tools, applications, information systems equipped with AI technology as part of their work. Besides, the scale of the impact of new technologies on labor markets will probably not be the same across industries and sectors of the economy.

I described the key issues of opportunities and threats to the development of artificial intelligence technology in my article below:

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

What do you think about this topic?

What is your opinion on this issue?

Please answer,

I invite everyone to join the discussion,

Thank you very much,

Best regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Production logistics management in a manufacturing company is currently one of the key areas of business management that significantly affects the level of technical and organizational efficiency of business operations. The change in the level of technical and organizational efficiency of business operations also usually has a significant impact and correlates with the issue of business efficiency and affects the financial results generated in the business entity. Among the key segments of logistics in the enterprise are also internal production logistics, on the way of organization of which the efficiency of the operation of production processes and the efficiency of the enterprise also largely depends. In recent years, more and more companies and enterprises have been optimizing production logistics through the implementation of information systems and automation of individual operations in the process. Production logistics is mainly concerned with ensuring the optimal flow of materials and information in the process of producing all types of goods. Production logistics does not deal with the technology of production processes, but only with the organization of the production system together with the storage and transport environment. Production logistics is mainly concerned with the optimization of all operations related to the production process, such as: supplying the plant with raw materials, semi-finished products and components necessary for production; transporting items between successive stages of production; and transferring the finished product to disposal warehouses. Precisely defining optimal production logistics is a lengthy process, requiring analysis and modification of almost every process taking place in a company. One of the key factors in the optimization of production logistics is the reduction of inventory levels and their adjustment to the ongoing production process. This translates directly into a decrease in storage costs. Effective management of production logistics should ensure timely delivery, while maintaining high product quality. Effective production logistics management can be supported by the implementation of new Industry 4.0/5.0 technologies, including Big Data and generative artificial intelligence.

The key issues of opportunities and threats to the development of artificial intelligence technology are described in my article below:

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

What do you think about this topic?

What is your opinion on this issue?

Please answer,

I invite everyone to join the discussion,

Thank you very much,

Best wishes,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Today AI is emerging rapidly than ever. When it comes to production we have so many arguments about how to add artificial intelligence or where to add artificial intelligence. Even to monitor the production performance we still do it manually. Image processing AI to gather from live video data needs a lot of processing and great quality infrastructure. What do you think about monitoring production performance, can we use Image processing technology, and how to make it more precise?

I want to do a review paper for the selected topic which is trends in demand and supply of oil palm.

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Dear Colleagues,

Today, in the era of digitalization, companies are experiencing new challenges more than ever before. Innovation, sustainability and resilience are the pillars of successful and sophisticated digital transformation.

X.0 companies can no longer focus on a simple short-term vision by producing the same recipes but are embracing more creative changes in order to be able to produce innovations and create new personalized experiences.

X.0 is the digital reinvention of the industry, combining the efficiency of transformation with research. This transformation will be able to create innovation and make these companies more resilient toward new sustainable growth to create value.

This session aims to share the most recent contributions in this area. Researchers and professionals are invited to present their work in the following or related fields:

Dr. Mario Di Nardo Dr. Maryam Gallab Guest Editors

Hi everyone,

I'm wondering if there are tests to measure the learners' explicit productive knowledge in the field of SLA, focusing on the grammatical aspect. I'm aware of some tests to measure learners' receptive explicit/implicit knowledge (e.g., timed/untimed GJT) and productive explicit knowledge (e.g., Cloze test), but I couldn't find ones for explicit productive knowledge.

Thank you in advance !

When addressing the socio-environmental challenges associated with the traditional economy mainstream researchers and organizations start from the point of view "Our current economy is linear” “ The economy of the future is circular”, taking the position that linearity is the root cause of sustainability problems, see for example: https://www.metabolic.nl/what-we-do/circular-economy/?gad=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwpJWoBhA8EiwAHZFzfoJkA5YMY6R6Crk_hIVmoam5SZZ8zjojNJOsh6PgMWygbt0t8LV8TRoCupMQAvD_BwE

They seem to be doing this without asking themselves the question, why is the current economy linear? Since when it has been linear? Could not be that the root cause of that linearity is the root cause of sustainability problems? If this was the case, then addressing linearity by going circular a la traditional market still leaves the root cause of the problem untouched and active.

And this raises the question: Is economy linearity the root cause of social, economic, and environmental challenges? If yes, why?. If not, why not?

What do you think?

Features of highly developed economies include high levels of productivity, innovation in the economic activities of companies and enterprises, the use of new technologies in manufacturing processes, labor productivity and income. High levels of labor productivity are largely due to the use of new technologies in the processes of producing goods and offering services. In recent years, new ICT information technologies, Industry 4.0 technologies, typical of the current fourth technological revolution, including machine learning technologies, deep learning and artificial intelligence, are being applied to the manufacturing processes of companies and enterprises operating in various sectors of the economy. these technologies are now and in the next several years will change labor markets by replacing people in certain jobs or supporting, improving the work done by people. As some of the work done by humans will be taken over by artificial intelligence then perhaps there will be an opportunity to reduce working hours for humans. When this kind of solution is applied then labor productivity should not decline, as productivity will be maintained at a certain level or will increase and employed citizens will have more time for personal activities, leisure, hobbies, for family, dal to develop personal passions, etc. and thus can be more productive and creative during work time.

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

And what is your opinion about it?

What is your opinion on this issue?

Please answer,

I invite you all to join the discussion,

Thank you very much,

The key issues of opportunities and threats to the development of artificial intelligence technologies are described in my article below:

OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS AND THE NEED FOR NORMATIVE REGULATION OF THIS DEVELOPMENT

Please write what you think in this issue? Do you see rather threats or opportunities associated with the development of artificial intelligence technology?

What is your opinion on this issue?

I invite you to familiarize yourself with the problems described in the article given above and to scientific cooperation on this issue.

Best regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Dear Community,

I am currently working on my master's thesis in the field of Change Impact Analysis in Cyber-Physical Systems and I am looking for experts from the CPS field to participate in our survey: https://cia-da.limesurvey.net/354998?lang=en (EN and DE versions available).

We would be very happy if you could complete the questionnaire and give us feedback!

We would also appreciate it if you could distribute the link to your colleagues, especially from the other disciplines/working groups.

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We have also written a WiP paper on this topic which you can request here:

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More exactly, do you know of a case where there are repeated, continuous data, sample surveys, perhaps monthly, and an occasional census survey on the same data items, perhaps annually, likely used to produce Official Statistics?   These would likely be establishment surveys, perhaps of volumes of products produced by those establishments. 

I have applied a method which is useful under such circumstances, and I would like to know of other places where this method might also be applied.   Thank you. 

The pandemic has accelerated the implementation of ICT information technology into business operations and the use of the Internet to promote and sell product and service offerings. The SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) coronavirus pandemic indirectly accelerated the development of ICT information technology applications in various aspects of business. During the pandemic, lockdowns were introduced on selected, mainly service sectors of the economy. As part of anti-pandemic security instruments, citizens infected with the coronavirus had to stay at home in quarantine for several to several days. As a result, quarantined consumers started ordering and buying products and services more via the Internet. On the other hand, companies under lockdown were able to conduct their business via the Internet. Consequently, many companies and businesses during the pandemic increased their use of the Internet for their business operations. Many businesses have increased the scale of sales of products and services offered to customers via the Internet. Many companies during the pandemic built or developed their online sales platforms. The scale of turnover carried out through the Internet in many companies and enterprises has even increased several times. As a result, the scale of e-commerce increased. The turnover of courier companies increased. E-logistics has developed. The use of ICT information technology and Industry 4.0 in various aspects of business has increased. When placing orders via the Internet and making purchases of products and services, citizens, including consumers and entrepreneurs, increasingly made payments for ordered products, services, semi-finished products, components, raw materials, etc. via the Internet. The development of online payments and settlements has resulted in the acceleration of the development of e-banking, especially online and mobile banking. In enterprises, computerized systems are being developed to support management processes, decision-making processes. The improvement of computerized enterprise management systems is currently being carried out by increasing the scale of use of Internet technologies and Industry 4.0. Examples are investments in computerized management and decision-making process support systems, in which so-called digital twins of economic, business processes and/or specific spheres of conducted production, service, trade, etc. are built. During the pandemic of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (Covid-19), the scale of investment by companies and enterprises in the development of computerized decision-making systems, in which the aforementioned digital twins and other innovations of Industry 4.0 technology are used, increased significantly. The development of information processing technologies in the era of the current technological revolution termed Industry 4.0 is determined by the development and growth of applications of ICT information technologies, Internet technologies and advanced data processing. The technological revolution currently taking place, referred to as Industry 4. 0 is determined by the development and implementation into economic processes of the following technologies: analytical and database technologies Big Data Analytics, Data Science, cloud computing, machine learning, personal and industrial Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, Business Intelligence, autonomous robots, horizontal and vertical data system integration, multi-criteria simulation models, digital twins, additive manufacturing, Blockchain, smart technologies, cyber security instruments, Virtual and Augmented Reality, and other advanced data processing technologies Data Mining. Thanks to the application of new Industry 4.0 technologies, computerized multi-criteria simulation models known as digital twins are now being created in many companies, enterprises and financial institutions. Building digital twins of entire processes of production, service provision, procurement logistics, manufacturing and distribution in information systems, the company obtains an excellent tool to support the process of managing the organization. Also, business analytics combined with Big Data Analytics technology supports the management process of an enterprise, company, financial institution or other type of business entity. With these solutions, it is also possible to create simulation models of the future development of complex, multi-faceted economic, social, financial, pandemic, natural, climatic, etc. processes. With the help of Big Data Analytics, many companies are already carrying out market research based on the analysis of Internet users' sentiment regarding changes in trends in the evaluation of the quality of product and service offerings, company reputation, logos, corporate branding, etc. The applications of Big Data technology in this area, including computerized market research, analysis of Internet user sentiment, in supporting business management processes, I have described in my publications posted on my profile of this Research Gate portal.

In view of the above, I address the following questions to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

What do you think about this topic?

What is your opinion on this issue?

Please answer,

I invite everyone to join the discussion,

Thank you very much,

Best wishes,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

My research is about convert agricultural waste into food using food processing techniques. My existing objectives are production, cost analysis, and evaluation of product in terms of color, taste, aroma, etc. I need at least 1 or 2 objectives more.

Tax cuts to the rich is the prefer idea on how to promote and expand economic growth in supply side economics despite knowing it does not work as expected. Yet, this policy is usually the first choice in supply side run democracies like in the USA or now the UK when supply side promoters are in power.

Any policy that worsens inequality should be expected in practice to negatively affect economic growth as under extreme inequality or worsening inequality the traditional trickle down should be expected to be mute or not to work as intended. And this raises the question, tax cuts to the rich and the embudo effect, is that why the trickled down effect does not work as intended?

What do you think?

Have you bought groceries or food lately? Have you noticed that the cost of items that form part of the production cost of the product or service you are buying, like plastic bags or food containers that once were free pollution, are now being charge extra to consumers when buying passing to them the apparent environmental responsibility of dealing with them, but the extra money now you are required to pay for the same plastic bags/containers goes directly to the company profits, not to any private nor government nor even to the same company recycling program as perhaps there is none. And governments seem to be okay with this new practice which is now spreading from major corporations to small businesses leaving consumers with no protection.

In a sense, dwarf green markets provide a cover for companies to pass their cost of production plus the “green grab” to consumers usually without having to disclose in advertising what they are doing so, a kind of deceiving as if those items cost more to companies now increasing their production costs that way, then they should increase the prices of their products or services instead, giving that way the option to consumers to buy at a higher price or not.

So consumers pay more, but their extra pay has not clear environmental benefits from consuming at a higher price, which raises the question, under dwarf green markets are consumers currently being scammed by the business community?

What do you think? Please detail your own view.

Due to many different factors, a food crisis can develop in many countries. The international supply and supply logistics chains that were interrupted during the SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) coronavirus pandemic have not been fully rebuilt. Rising fuel prices are driving up the cost of transporting food products to shops. The decline in fertiliser production is also driving up the cost of producing crops. In addition, the war in Ukraine has resulted in a decline in cereal supplies to many countries. The lack of electricity has caused a decline in the production of nitrogenous fertilisers. This then caused a decrease in the production of CO2, which benefits producers of many types of food products. Many food product factories are raising the prices of their products due to increases in raw material, energy and fuel prices. Many production facilities are reducing the scale of production. There may be job cuts. Consumption is falling due to high inflation. If a downturn in the economy occurs in the next quarters, many companies may go out of business and unemployment will rise. In addition, periods of increasingly severe drought, more and more hot days and less and less rain and more and more frequent fires in many parts of the world are causing a significant drop in crop production in agriculture. On the other hand, further food crises may arise in the future in the long term, which will be the result of a global climate crisis developing on a multi-year scale.

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of researchers and scientists:

What is your opinion on the subject?

What do you think about this topic?

Please reply,

I invite you all to discuss,

Thank you very much,

Regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Population dynamics is usually linked to system stability. For example, over population is linked to system unsustainability, and possible system collapse through overshooting behavior like ecological overshoot. Population dynamics is rarely linked to market pricing structures as markets are usually presented as supply and demand interactions consistent with their price structures. But market price structures can be seen as linked to the nature of the population they serve. Hence, population dynamics appears to be the connection between market price structure and system stability.

And this raises the question, Is population dynamics the link between market pricing and system stability? I think yes, what do you think?

How can rising inflation be effectively contained?

On the one hand, the various instruments of monetary policy , fiscal policy, ... that have previously been used to stop the rise of inflation are known. On the other hand, for some reason the various anti-inflationary measures applied in 2021 and 2022 are working to a very limited extent. Therefore, can the rise in inflation get out of hand? Could the rise in inflation, the increase in fuel and energy prices and the projected downturn in the economy lead to the emergence of an economic crisis in the following quarters? Could there be an economic recession and stagflation in 2023?

What do you think on this subject?

Please reply,

I invite you all to discuss,

Thank you very much,

Greetings,

Dariusz

Hey there,

i am writing my bachelor thesis at the moment about an LCA for wishbones. Unfortunately i can not find that much literature about the energy amount that is needed for following production processes:

- Aluminium Forging

- Hot Rolling (Steel)

- Steel Stamping

- Metal bending (Steel)

Hopefully someone could help me & send me his assessment about the energy that is needed for those processes (Baste Case: kWh / kg)

Thanks a lot!

Hannes

I am currently conducting a study on the effects of adopting IoT and Big data technologies in a manufacturing facility. I'm trying to get hold of data that would concern the change in the capacity of the plant, the maintenance costs, and OEE. I am aware that there is previous case studies on the matter but I am trying to quantify the change using real data. Does anybody know where I can find production data of a manufacturing facility I can use?

In the near future some non-biodegradable materials will be replaced in production processes for other, biodegradable. For example, plastics in the European Union until 2021 are to be withdrawn from packaging and replaced with other biodegradable materials such as paper or packaging produced from food, eg from cereals. But this is just the beginning of the revolution in the development of pro-ecological material innovations. This is only the first step towards the withdrawal of plastic as one of the main factors of littering the natural environment.

Do you know other types of examples already implemented or planned to implement projects to replace plastics with biodegradable materials?

Which biodegradable materials will be replaced in the future by plastic that is being phased out of production?

Please, answer, comments. I invite you to the discussion.

CO₂ is used as raw material for chemical syntheses. It paves the opportunity to mitigate the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, it is not mathematically or logically proved yet that carbon capture benefits the environment in terms of resource efficiency. In my opinion, I believe that the life cycle assesment (LCA) would be the most suitable tool to quantify the resource-based benefits due to carbon based methane (CH₄) production and to prove the resource efficacy of carbon capture.

I would like the researchers who read this discussion to provide their own ideas on whether LCA is the most suitable tool to identify the carbon capture resource efficacy or are there any methods better than LCA that can be applied on CO₂ based methane production.

We hear about environmental problems or social problems or socio-environmental problems associated with business as usual, problems being exacerbated currently by over population pressures and overshooting pressures. Hence, all those problems and pressures seem to be associated with non-optimal market conditions in practice, but conditions that are assumed to be optimal in theory, hinting towards a practice-theory inconsistency problem.

And this raises the question, Is the destruction of full optimality at the heart of system unsustainability problems? I think yes, what do you think?

Please, feel free to express your own views on the question, Yes, and why you think so? No, and why you think so?

Are the targeted aging of products used by producers, deterioration of product quality, shortening the life cycle of products is a solution to the problem of overproduction, ie excess supply versus demand or rather overproduction of fast-wearing products and accelerated growth of waste and debris, increase in non-renewable raw materials consumption, increasing costs of reclamation, environmental protection, health protection and other additional social costs?

Please reply

From the beginning of the industrial revolution and the description of the functioning of enterprises in the conditions of market structures, in the trend of classical economics, three types of production factors dominated in the production processes defined by three slogans: land, labor, capital.

However, successively with the development of industry and technological progress in the 20th century, other categories of production factors, typical for economies largely based on information, are added to these classic factors of production.

These factors of production, whose role in many industries has been growing since the 1960s include: knowledge, information, technology and innovation.

In view of the above, the current question is: In what branches of industry such production factors as knowledge, information, technology and innovation are currently or become the most important?

Please, answer, comments. I invite you to the discussion.

Demographers estimate that by 2050, the number of people on Earth will reach 10 billion. With such a number of people, the agricultural economy, logistics of food supplies and people's eating habits will have to change. It is likely that economics will force these processes, which will result in the transition of the majority of humanity to nutrition mainly based on vegetable and vegetarian diets. Meat production is many times more expensive than the production of cereals, fruits and vegetables. In addition, according to scientific research and the theory of futurologists, the production of traditional meat, e.g. pork and beef, may be replaced by the production of protein from insect breeding. Research shows that there are more proteins in the bodies of insects than in traditional meat dishes. In addition, the logistics of food supplies, agri-food products will have to improve. Systems for matching agricultural and reptile production to the current needs of the industry and the nutritional needs of people will be improved so as to reduce the scale of food wastage. The biggest threat to the implementation of this plan may be unexpected atmospheric phenomena, natural disasters, droughts, hurricanes, tropical heat in the areas in which agricultural crops have been cultivated so far. In addition, industrial exploitation of arable land and climate change causes soil depletion and the disintegration of areas suitable for agricultural production. Therefore, it will be necessary to continue the technological progress in the production of crops, in biotechnology, in the creation of new plant varieties resistant to pests and adverse climatic changes.

Please, answer, comments. I invite you to the discussion.

What kind of scientific research dominate in the field of Smart production?

Please, provide your suggestions for a question, problem or research thesis in the issues: Smart production.

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To support the debate I enclosed the slides of IEOM South America 2021 keynote.

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Does production management using Internet of Things technology streamline production management processes and does it increase the economic efficiency of the company's operation?

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By 2040, a deficit of clear water will appear in most countries in the world.

On the one hand, the use of water in the production industry of various technical and automotive goods is growing, but also in some areas of food production.

For example, 1650 liters of water absorbs, for example, the production of 1 hamburger, because the production of meat absorbs very large amounts of water.

In addition, a progressive global warming process and more and more frequent droughts appearing in various places around the earth, mainly in the subtropics and in some places of the temperate climate.

In connection with the above, the question becomes more and more relevant:

How to improve the processes of purification of used, contaminated water?

How to obtain water develop technologies for desalination of sea water or condensation of water in areas subject to periodic drought?

How to improve the extraction of pure Oligocene water contained in the Earth's crust in desert areas?

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I am conducting research on this issue. I have included the conclusions of my research in the following articles:

Key aspects of the negative effects of the progressive process of global warming and the associated necessary acceleration of the processes of green transformation of the economy in order to decarbonize the economy, slow down the process of global warming, protect the climate, biosphere and biodiversity of natural ecosystems of the planet I described in the article:

In the following article, I included the results of the research conducted on the connection of the issue of sustainable development, the genesis and meaning of the Sustainable Development Goals, the essence of sustainable development in the context of social, normative, economic, environmental, climate aspects, as well as human rights, etc. The research also addressed the issue of key determinants of human existential security as an element of the concept of sustainable development.

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I would like to invite you to join me in scientific cooperation,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Dear Colleague,

Part of my Ph.D. thesis needs to be completed questionnaire, which, unfortunately, due to Covid 19, we cannot attend the company under review. For this reason, I request supply chain experts who wish to complete the questionnaire to notify me, that I will email the questionnaire to them. It would be your generosity to respond to the questionnaires and also distribute them among your colleagues, students, and networks.

Thank you in advance for your help and cooperation.

I would like to know about all the molecules that can be expressed by/in CD8 T cells

I was wondering if ecosystem metabolism (GPP-ER=NEP) could be measured using BOD bottles that are not completely filled with water (dark-light bottle method). In such a case, which problems could come from this approach?

Do you have a reference that could be useful to discern which method to use?

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What modern, computerized information technologies in the field of Industry 4.0 are used to implement improvements in production logistics or other logistics areas, such as distribution logistics, supply logistics, transport logistics, etc.?

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What types of restructuring processes are used to implement improvements in production logistics or other logistics areas, such as distribution logistics, supply logistics, transport logistics, etc.?

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Productivity is a key aspect of economic growth. However, it is also important to choose what should be produced with the growing importance of taking into account the issue of ecology, care for the protection of the natural environment.

Do you agree with my opinion on this matter?

In view of the above, I am asking you the following question:

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Despite green market thinking being here formally since 2012 Rio +20 conference finding a definition of a true green market is hard to find even in major publications dealing with green growth and green economies…the term green market a kind of disappeared as we moved towards an environmentally friendly world after 2012, and because it was left unattended in development and economic thinking circles this has led since then to confusion and misused of the term.

Many forms of environmentally friendly markets are called green markets, when they are not. For example, a Google search of what is a green market leads to the following definition in Wikipedia:

But that is a definition of one type of environmentally friendly market, but that is not the definition of a green market. And this lead to the questions, what is a green market? What is not a green market?. Please feel free to comment, what do you think a green market is and/or what it is not; and why?

I am using the ANN for a product reliability assurance application, i.e.picking some sample within the production process and then estimating the overall quality of the production line output. What kind of optimization algorithm do you think works the best for solving the ANN in such a problem. ?

What factors brought the euro value of the GBP from 1.5 euro in 2004 to 1.06 euro today?

A -41% loss, of the British Pound, that's a lot.

How could this happen?

Is it a cause a consequence of Brexit?

Does it reveal a weakness of the British Economy versus the Eurozone?

Is it an opportunity of increased competitiveness of UK, to export goods and services becoming cheaper if produced in the UK than in the Eurozone (UK vs Eurozone, comparable to Mexico vs USA?)

Your views?

Dear all, I am currently using Qiagen miRNA profiler plates (catalogue number: MIBT-659ZF-24) to identify deregulated miRNAs in cattle under certain physiological condition.

I have ordered the product and the product arrived as well, however I did not find any product manual and the plate layout of that particular product in the internet page of the company. If someone used it before can you please provide me the plate layout.

Thanks in advance.

The link http://www.sabiosciences.com/display.php?Pfamilyradio=miRNA&PageNo=10

Every year, millions of tons of food of food are wasted in every highly developed country. How should the logistics of deliveries of agricultural products be improved and the consumers of food products to be more economical in order to economise the purchased food so that citizens do not throw so much food into the trash? How to change the habits of consumers? What institutions should still be created to take away unused food from consumers and, if it is suitable for consumption, efficiently, systematically transfer it to poorer countries in which food is lacking? In connection with the above, the current question is: How can the food waste in developed countries be systematically reduced?

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Do the shortening of life cycles of technical products, electronics, household appliances, IT equipment, etc. used by producers is a solution to the potential problem of overproduction?

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One of the areas that are among the greatest future achievements of the 21st century is the creation of artificial intelligence, which will find applications in various types of information systems used in industry and information services, processing huge data sets, Big Data database systems, forecasting and managing complex organizations. Currently, innovations are being created in various fields of production and services, generation of new technological solutions. New technological solutions, including technical, product, process, organizational and other innovations in their essence are the result of creativity and creative ingenuity of inventors. If innovation is inseparably connected with the human need of creativity of intelligence and perhaps also some kind of artistry, then whether artificial intelligence in the future will be able to replace man in these types of human creative activity. Will artificial intelligence be able to learn artistry in the matter of generating innovative technological solutions, will it create innovative technologies according to strictly or generally defined determinants, defined variables, determined factors? Will artificial intelligence be able to generate innovative technologies as a response to the question asked for the Smart Data database system?

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Dariusz Prokopowicz

Is the combination of currently developed technologies of Industry 4.0, ie above all advanced information technologies: Business Intelligence + Internet of Things + Learning machines + Internet + Big Data and Internet ICT and their application in the field of production logistics will lead in the next years to the emergence of advanced support analytics production logistics processes, including the development of production e-logistics?

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What could be the main design challenges in aquaculture engineering? in what kind of aquaculture sector?

As you know, The piezoelectric and FGM can be used in the faces of sandwich structures, concurrently. What is the procedure of production of this kind of sandwich?

What is the goal of using piezoelectric and FGM in sandwich structures, concurrently?

Imagine there are NO production costs, neither economic costs,…..

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How production would be priced then?

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And this answer brings the question: How perfect market competition theory, short term and long term, would look like under full cost externalization? What are the sustainability implications of this?

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Any ideas!

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Note: This question and answer are related to my current project/article on the works shared below: “The road towards sustainability markets: Linking cost externalization to market structure and price structure using qualitative comparative means. https://www.researchgate.net/project/The-road-towards-sustainability-markets-Linking-cost-externalization-to-market-structure-and-price-structure-using-qualitative-comparative-means

What do you think about the interest of algae?

I need an article, paper, book, etc. for mixed or multi-model of assembly line problem. However, any article related to multi-objective ALBP is very useful for me too.

Obviously, the difference between the mixed model and the multi-model line is the batch sizes defined for various types of products in multi-model ALB.

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The production line is arranged so that the product is moved sequentially along the line and stops at work centers along the line where an operation is performed. The lean six sigma is to eliminate mistake, reduce cost and to improve efficiency by cutting unnecessary steps.

I need to know the emissivity values of vegetation cover and water bodies from a MODIS product MOD11A2 and there are two bands 31 and 32, which one to be used and what is the difference between them both? Also, is there any better product for the emissivity?

I am doing a research on impact on purchase behavior of millennials when they come across green products or Eco-friendly products. I need to find the gap in this research. 

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