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Basic Determinants in Integrated Supply Chains
Get PDFAn integrated supply chain is currently a decisive factor when it comes to remaining on increasingly demanding markets. Optimal organization of the supply chain is often a serious challenge for businesses that need to function in a more efficient way, and to provide products tailored to individual customers' needs. The accuracy and precision at every stage are crucial, as well as shorter response time to changes in demand, customer tastes and economic conditions
Extending the scope of ECM certification
Get PDF The Commission Regulation (EU) No 445/2011 introduced requirements on certification system for Entities in Charge of Maintenance (ECM). It contains requirements regarding the need for create and, more importantly, verification by the certifying body of the Maintenance Management System (MMS). It assumes that only Entities in Charge of Maintenance for freight wagons will be subject to certification. With the development of legislation on the safety of rail transport began to prepare the extension of ECM certification. The article presents the proposal of the European Union Agency for Railways to extend the scope of Commission Regulation (EU) No. 445/2011 and discusses the most important changes
Multimodal Freight Transport Planning: A Toolbox Supporting Stakeholders’ Collaboration
No full textThis paper aims to analyse the planning of chemical transports’ shift from road to the more complex multimodal freight transport, and presents a toolbox developed to support the stakeholders in the process. In literature the research problem of multimodal freight transport planning is analysed mainly from mathematical models’ perspective. There is a lack of studies focused on multimodal transport chain collaboration and the tools supporting it. Within the framework of research conducted during the ChemMultimodal „Promotion of Multimodal Transport in Chemical Logistics” project, within INTERREG Central Europe Programme, the research team identified challenges related to modal shifts in the chemical industry, and next developed the toolbox addressing these challenges and supporting stakeholders’ collaboration on multimodal chemical freight transport planning. The toolbox embraces: (1) consulting services, (2) planning guidelines, (3) the Intermodal Links platform, which suggests intermodal connections between two points, and (4) a CO2 calculator. Conclusions from the first pilot tests showed the necessity of a complex approach to the process of modal shift planning. Transport managers testing the toolbox the most appreciated the consulting services, which include a marketing platform integrating chemical producers and distributors, logistics companies, carriers, terminal operators, rail network operators and others. This platform is used to share information on current transport patterns, existing potentials, and possible actions to establish and promote modal shift
Failure Mode and Effect Analysis of Air Cargo Freight Services Provider
Get PDFIn the theoretical part, this article presents the basic conditions for the organization of air transport cargo divided into different types of cargo shipments. Then an analysis of the Polish market of air cargo shipments is presented, taking into account the type of companies, airlines and airports that support them. In the research part, an FMEA analysis of an entity providing air cargo transport organization services was made, presenting several disadvantages and possible remedial actions that contribute to the improvement of the quality of services
Transport Intensity of the Global Economy in 1995-2015
Get PDFAbstractTransport covers the area where mutual relations between economy and its requirements take place, and where it affects – not always in a positive way – its surrounding. Simultaneously, it is the transport that marks the direction for the infrastructure development, and hence the whole economy. The close association between the economy and transport is confirmed by the amount of carriages in the world. The excessive increase of the transport intensity is one of the phenomena that negatively affect the economy. Expenditures incurred for the transport activities are expressed indirectly by the amount of traffic (in tonnes) and by the volume of transport performance (in tonne-km). In contrast, the effect of socio-economic activities are values of global product and national income. The article studied the transport activity in terms of volume of transport work (in tkm) total for all modes of transport, the effects of economic and social activity expressed by means of the value of gross domestic product, as well as the development of the transport intensity of national economies for the selected countries (regions) and for Poland. The analysis of both the curve with exponential functions and polynomial curves and on their basis conclusions were drawn
The Dynamics of the Development and Increased Effectiveness of International Road Transport in Poland in 1998-2016
Get PDFAbstractAn analysis for the motor-car transport development after the transformation of the political system and economy in Poland in 1989 was made in this article. The development of domestic roads in this country with taking into account the constructed highways was also presented in it. There was indicated in it also the leading role for load carriages in the motor-car transportation. Some law provisions obligatory for transport agents on the territory of the European Union and the quantities of the transported loads and passengers in the international motor-car transport in 2003-2013 were taking also into consideration in this article. There were indicated in it also the problems of Polish transport agents operating on the territory of the European Union
THE FUTURE OF THE EUROPEAN LOGISTICS CENTRES AS NODAL OBJECTS OF INTERMODAL TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE
Get PDFThe article describes the general characteristics of logistics centres. In particular, their functions, types and characteristics of the model logistics centre were presented. The logistics centres associated in Europlatforms have been described, focusing on those countries where the number of centres is the largest, i.e. Germany, Spain, France and Italy. The factors determining the decision making regarding the selection of the optimal location of a logistics centre in Europe have been discussed, and also the places currently enjoying the greatest interest in the logistics industry have been shown. The development perspectives of Polish logistic facilities are presented and factors influencing the investment attractiveness of Poland are described
CONTEMPORARY AIR FREIGHT TRANSPORT MARKET
Get PDFAbstract The worldwide air freight transport is seen mostly from the angle of long-distance passenger flights. Given that, one often tends to forget the role of this transport branch in the case of commodity transport. Air freight transport is a booming branch with great development potential. This, however, is related to considerable experience and knowledge, on the part of both the carrier and the owner of goods, with regards to technical capacities of a given aircraft, maintenance costs, and rule awareness. The objective of the study is to analyse the global market of air freight transport. In view of the vast scope of the subject, the issues were presented, to a large extent, on the basis of existing airports
Application of Single Minute Exchange of Die in Production Process Improvement
No full textThis paper concerns Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) which is one of lean tools applied for reduction of change over time on machines. It is a review paper on the basis of the literature collected from three electronic databases: Elsevier Science, Springer and E-resources from library of Poznan University of Technology. The retrieved articles were screened following the inclusion/exclusion criteria. After applying the literature selection criteria 40 articles published between the years 2000-2017 were chosen. These papers were classified on the basis of year of publication, journal title, main issue, tools and methods, type and also location. Their analysis revealed that SMED was applied in various range of enterprises in order to reduce time of setups and eliminate unnecessary activities which have no value for the process. It was also a useful tool for production process improvement as it may support lean tools in order to increase the process efficiency. The vast majority of papers was published in European countries. However, the increasing number of publications in recent years may suggest the increase of interest in this subject in different areas
Material definition to design vehicle components, application to crashworthiness
Get PDFIn this paper a short description is reported allowing to take into account some aspects to design structures used for automotive industries. It allows to define correctly the behaviour of a vehicle and mainly the passive structures to absorb energy during an accident or an impact. The main aspect related to the behaviour is the strain rate sensitivity coupled to the process of elastic wave propagation