TY - JOUR
T1 - Sustainability Cockpit
T2 - An integrated tool for continuous assessment and improvement of sustainability in manufacturing
AU - Li, Wen
AU - Alvandi, Samira
AU - Kara, Sami
AU - Thiede, Sebastian
AU - Herrmann, Christoph
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Sustainability assessment needs to be embedded into manufacturers’ daily operations for continuous improvement. Existing factories, especially small and medium enterprises (SMEs), often lack infrastructure and capital to enable such regular assessment. An integrated tool has been developed based on a generic discrete event simulation (DES) factory model, which is linked to the company's resource planning system in order to not only assess the sustainability performance of each company's as-is operations, but also optimise their future performance. An Australian company was used as a case study to demonstrate the validity of the tool.
AB - Sustainability assessment needs to be embedded into manufacturers’ daily operations for continuous improvement. Existing factories, especially small and medium enterprises (SMEs), often lack infrastructure and capital to enable such regular assessment. An integrated tool has been developed based on a generic discrete event simulation (DES) factory model, which is linked to the company's resource planning system in order to not only assess the sustainability performance of each company's as-is operations, but also optimise their future performance. An Australian company was used as a case study to demonstrate the validity of the tool.
KW - Manufacturing
KW - Performance
KW - Sustainability assessment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84973542379&partnerID=MN8TOARS
U2 - 10.1016/j.cirp.2016.04.029
DO - 10.1016/j.cirp.2016.04.029
M3 - Article
SN - 0007-8506
VL - 65
SP - 5
EP - 8
JO - CIRP annals : manufacturing technology
JF - CIRP annals : manufacturing technology
IS - 1
ER -
