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Lean manufacturing is an innovative approach to business process management that allows organizations to increase their competitiveness by producing goods or providing services in the shortest possible time and at the lowest cost with the quality required by the consumer. In the paper, the authors provide an analysis of foreign and Russian requirements in the field of lean manufacturing. The authors studied the experience of implementing the lean production methodology in a dairy production company, identified fac...

The business is under constant pressure to improve their environmental performance, in particular, in response to scarcity of natural resources and the higher societal expectations for social and environmental responsibility. Therefore environmental management has become crucial to overall business management. In the new series of ISO standards, the ?risk-based thinking" underlies the development and implementation of the environmental management system. The risk-based approach allows the integration of risk manag...

Both in the Central Baltic (CB) countries and Russia, there is a need to develop current education regarding resource efficiency, which is a relatively new and complex issue. The aim of the paper is to present the results of the two parallel twinning international projects "CREA-RE" (Creating aligned studies in Resource Efficiency) and "CREA-RE-RU" (Creating aligned studies in Resource Efficiency in Sweden and Russia), which has been realized from 2018 to 2020. The main goal of the projects was to produce up-to-da...

The rapid growth of blockchain technologies in the world drew attention to the environmental aspects of its production. Blockchain technology is based on the use of significant computing power, which consumes a large amount of electricity. In most cases, traditional non-renewable energy sources are used, which leads to the depletion of natural resources. The scale of operations of the mining process of blockchain increased dramatically during the last years. By the end of 2017, the amount of electricity spent on m...