Abstract
Strategies to improve the economic and environmental performance of companies are usually pursued from a local perspective, hardly considering interactions between different value chain actors. Thus global improvements are not necessarily reached. Against this background, the authors present an approach for an integrated improvement strategy covering both perspectives to reveal hidden resource saving potentials. Moreover, a "decision-making toolbox" has been developed, allowing for an identification of company-internal and cross-company improvements as well as resulting trade-offs. Applicability and benefits of the approach are underlined by a use case application from the metal mechanic industry.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 40-45 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Procedia CIRP |
Volume | 61 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2017 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 24th CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, LCE 2017 - Kamakura Prince Hotel, Kamakura, Japan Duration: 8 Mar 2017 → 10 Mar 2017 Conference number: 24 http://cirp-lce2017.jspe.or.jp/ |
Keywords
- Decision-making toolbox
- Metal mechanic industry
- Resource efficiency
- Value chain analysis