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Information on Recycling
Since 1960 the amount of municipal waste being collected in America has nearly tripled, reaching 245m tons in 2005. According to European Union statistics, the amount of municipal waste produced in western Europe increased…
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RFID – Did it live upto expectations?
In 2004, the Yankee Group, a consultancy, predicted that by 2007 the expanding RFID industry would affect 4m jobs in America alone; American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) predicted that most cases and pallets…
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Complexity-oriented decision-making approach
American Air Liquide, a firm based in Houston, Texas, recently implemented a complexity-oriented decision making approach. The following information was acquired through multiple employee interviews, associated document examinations, and observations of the Operations Control…
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Nanotechnology and Quality
Nanotechnology deals with arranging particles on the atomic scale. The United States' National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) website defines nanotechnology as "the understanding and control of matter at dimensions of roughly 1 to 100 nanometers,…












