Abstract
Increasing numbers of companies in the manufacturing
industry have identified market potential for
implementing sustainable and green manufacturing. Yet,
current sustainability assessment tools for companies are
complicated, requiring vast amounts of data and technical
expertise to use them. Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is
founded on lean practices, and it uses a simple method to
analyze various types of material, energy, and
information flow needed to bring products and services to
the end-customer. The objective of this paper is to
introduce and illustrate the application of a VSM-based
assessment, termed as Sustainable Manufacturing Mapping
(SMM). SMM takes chosen sustainability indicators into
consideration and is based on VSM, Life Cycle Assessment
(LCA), and Discrete Event Simulation (DES). The main
phases of SMM include goal definition, identification of
the sustainability indicators, and modeling the current
and future state process maps. In this paper, some
example indicators were identified and an SMM process map
was generated for illustrative purposes.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2010 Winter Simulation Conference |
| Publisher | IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
| Pages | 3411-3422 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-4244-9865-9, 978-1-4244-9864-2 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4244-9866-6 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
| MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
| Event | 2010 Winter Simulation Conference 2010, WSC '10, Baltimore Marriot Waterfront, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 5 - 8 Dec. 2010 - Duration: 1 Jan 2010 → … |
Conference
| Conference | 2010 Winter Simulation Conference 2010, WSC '10, Baltimore Marriot Waterfront, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 5 - 8 Dec. 2010 |
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| Period | 1/01/10 → … |
Keywords
- sustainable manufacturing
- eco-efficiency
- environmental indicators
