Tamás Bányai

University of Miskolc

Tamás Bányai received a master’s degree in 1993 and a Ph.D. in 1999, both from the University of Miskolc, Hungary, where he is currently a full-time professor. He has 30 years of teaching and research experience in the design and control of materials handling systems and supply chain management, with special emphasis on heuristic optimization of large-scale systems. He has published more than 200 research papers, book chapters, and conference proceedings. He has been a member and manager of more than fifty national and international R&D projects. Away from academia, Prof. Bányai’s other interests include playing the piano and taking photographs.

4books edited

3chapters authored

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The cradle-to-grave and cradle-to-cradle techniques of life cycle assessment make it possible to analyze the environmental impacts of products associated with natural resource acquisition, purchasing, production, services, assembly, distribution, and use and recycling from raw material extraction to waste management. This book offers a selection of chapters that explain the impact of green supply chain solutions on value-making chains. It is designed to help students at all levels as well as managers and researchers to understand and appreciate the concept, design, and implementation of life cycle assessment.

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Life Cycle Assessment

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Part of the book: Industry 4.0

The Impact of Industry 4.0 on the Future of Green Supply Chain

By Tamás Bányai and Mohammad Zaher Akkad

The fourth industrial revolution offers new technologies to transform conventional supply chain solutions into cyber-physical supply chain ones. This transformation makes it possible to increase the efficiency, availability, quality, and cost-efficiency of the value-making chain, while the energy consumption and the GHG emission can be decreased. Within the frame of this chapter, the authors introduce the most important Industry 4.0 technologies and Internet of Things tools and demonstrate their potentials to update supply chain operations. This update of conventional operations can lead to greener and more sustainable purchasing, production, and distribution processes. The successful future of the green supply chain is based on a wide range of factors, like production management, logistics management, societal and regulatory environment. However, the Industry 4.0 technologies are expected to strongly influence the whole supply chain performance positively. This chapter aims to explore the potentials of Industry 4.0 technologies and the transformation of conventional supply chain solutions into cyber-physical systems, especially from a municipal waste collection point of view. The research findings can provide useful insights for supply chain experts, manufacturing, and service companies.

Part of the book: Green Supply Chain

Introductory Chapter: Disciplinarity Aspects in Green Supply Chain Design and Operation

By Tamás Bányai and Ireneusz Kaczmar

Part of the book: Green Supply Chain