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MANU1381 Sustainable Engineering Systems and
Environment
Assessment 2: Managing information system and sustainable production
Assessment Type: Individual Report Word limit: 2000 (+/– 10%)
Due date: Week 14
Weighting: 50%
Overview
This assessment is a case project that covers Module 2, i.e. Information Technology, and Module 3 Sustainable
Production & Pathways to Sustainability.
• Assessment determines your ability to evaluate information technology (IT) management strategy of an
organisation, identify its current and future IT needs, and form short and long-term solutions to address these
needs.
• In addition to that, you have to present your approach to support, enable and maintain sustainable
development. This means that you will ensure cleaner production and environment protection. Finally, energy
efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources, are the priorities for the future ecologically sustainable
development.
• You will need to create a report to addresses these aspects, based on the detailed assessment description
provided below.
Learning Outcomes
This assessment is relevant to the following learning outcome:
– apply recent developments in strategic planning and strategic management practice in the application
and management of modern technology-based information and communication systems.
– Design and evaluate the effectiveness and impacts of technology development strategies against the
goals of sustainable environment.
– Participate and contribute to the development of policies in technological development for the
application of environmental management systems such as cleaner production monitoring.
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Assessment details
Concisely identify key business activities and mechanisms operating within the organisation.
a) Identify and scope current and projected future IT needs, as well as sustainability production.
b) Conduct a strategic analysis on the organisation’s IT management and identify the organisation’s gaps and
capabilities.
c) Determine a strategy for managing (e.g. outsourcing, leasing, cloud, remote servers, ERP, PLM etc.) ITto
address strategic gaps. Include specifications and conditions for your proposed solution.
d) Including short and long-term plans and strategies to measure the effectiveness and expected costs/issues
(overheads, fixed and variable costs) of your solution and implement a continuous improvement strategy.
e) Present current state of the cleaner production practices and the development strategies against the goals
of sustainable environment.
f) Consider the use of renewable energy sources and future developments.
Suggested report structure
The following provides guidelines for the Report structure and what you need to include.
Introduction
Background information, Selection of the organisation
Business activities and Current IT systems and sustainability pictures
IT problem/challenge identification
Problem/challenge description
Proposed IT solutions
Possible state-of-the-art solution
Current state of the sustainability in business
Proposed pathway for the
Cleaner production,
sustainable development and
green energy application
Conclusion
References
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Select any engineering or technological business system. Good choices include large automotive manufacturers,
aircraft manufacturers or industrial machine manufacturers. The best choice would be a company where you were or
are currently employed. Alternatively, you can select any system for which you are able to gather enough relevant
information to carry out the following tasks.
Academic integrity and plagiarism
Use
RMIT Harvard
referencing style for
this assessment.
Academic integrity is about honest presentation of your academic work. It means acknowledging the work of others
while developing your own insights, knowledge and ideas.
You should take extreme care that you have:
– Acknowledged words, data, diagrams, models, frameworks and/or ideas of others you have quoted
(i.e. directly copied), summarised, paraphrased, discussed or mentioned in your assessment through
the appropriate referencing methods,
– Provided a reference list of the publication details so your reader can locate the source if necessary.
This includes material taken from Internet sites.
If you do not acknowledge the sources of your material, you may be accused of plagiarism because you have
passed off the work and ideas of another person without appropriate referencing, as if they were your own.
RMIT University treats plagiarism as a very serious offence constituting misconduct.
Plagiarism covers a variety of inappropriate behaviours, including:
– Failure to properly document a source
– Copyright material from the internet or databases
– Collusion between students
For further information on our policies and procedures, please refer to the University website.
Assessment declaration
When you submit work electronically, you agree to the assessment declaration.
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Referencing guidelines
You must acknowledge all the courses of information you have used in your
assessments.
Refer to the RMIT Easy Cite referencing tool to see examples and tips on how to
reference in the appropriated style. You can also refer to the library referencing
page for more tools such as EndNote, referencing tutorials and referencing guides
for printing.
Submission format
Upload as one single file via the assignments submission page within Canvas.
Assessment Criteria
Criteria
1. System description
2. IT Identification
3. Sustainability presentation
4. Academic writing
5. Referencing
Explanation
The context of the system is clearly,
logically and comprehensively described
Comprehensiveness of the IT definition
and presentation
Comprehensiveness of the Sustainability
definition and presentation
Writing communicates meaning clearly
and achieves purpose of the task with
sound grammar and spelling.
There is proper and consistent
referencing with no errors
Pts
0-10
0-10
0-10
0-10
0-10
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