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Sustainable Manufacturing
Sustainable manufacturing refers to the process of producing goods using methods that minimize negative environmental impact, conserve energy and natural resources, and prioritize the well-being of workers and communities. It involves integrating eco-friendly practices, such as recycling, renewable energy use, and waste reduction, into the entire production cycle to create long-term environmental and social benefits.
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eBook - ePubThe Dark Factory and the Future of Manufacturing
A Guide to Operational Efficiency and Competitiveness
- Philip J. Gisi(Author)
- 2024(Publication Date)
- Productivity Press(Publisher)
4 Sustainable Manufacturing
DOI: 10.4324/9781032688152-17Overview
In manufacturing, sustainability refers to the practice of producing goods in a way that minimizes negative environmental impacts, conserves resources, and promotes long-term economic viability. It involves considering the entire lifecycle of a product, from raw material extraction to disposal, and implementing strategies to reduce waste, energy consumption, and pollution throughout the manufacturing process. In the last section of this book, we will discuss key aspects of Sustainable Manufacturing, including the following topics.- Resource efficiency: Sustainable Manufacturing aims to optimize the use of resources such as energy, water, and raw materials. This involves reducing waste, improving energy efficiency, and implementing recycling and reuse strategies.
- Pollution prevention: This topic focuses on minimizing or eliminating the release of harmful substances and pollutants into the environment. This can be achieved by using cleaner production technologies, adopting green chemistry principles, and implementing effective waste management systems.
- Renewable energy: Sustainable manufacturers prioritize the use of renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, or hydropower to power their production processes. This reduces reliance on fossil fuels and lowers greenhouse gas emissions.
- Design for sustainability: The concept of design for sustainability involves considering environmental and social factors during the product design phase. This includes selecting eco-friendly materials, designing for durability and recyclability, and minimizing the overall environmental footprint of the product.
- Supply chain management
eBook - ePub- R.Ganesh Narayanan, Jay S Gunasekera, R.Ganesh Narayanan, Jay S Gunasekera(Authors)
- 2019(Publication Date)
- CRC Press(Publisher)
According to US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), the term “Sustainable Manufacturing” is the creation of manufactured products through economically sound processes that minimize negative environmental impacts while conserving energy and natural resources. Sustainable Manufacturing also enhances employee, community, and product safety.To put simply, Sustainable Manufacturing is all about minimizing the diverse business risks inherent in any manufacturing operation while maximizing the new opportunities that arise from improving your processes and products.“Sustainable Manufacturing” is no longer just nice-to-have an “option.” Today, a business imperative to be “future ready.” Companies across the world are facing increased costs in sourcing materials, energy, and meeting compliance. In addition, there are higher expectations of customers, investors, and local communities. There are also caps or impositions on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions due to the threat of climate change that demand right choice of energy sources, technologies, and materials.Integration of economic, social, and environmental perspectives is the foundation of sustainability. Figure 17.5 shows the concept of Sustainable Manufacturing in these three dimensions.Figure 17.5 Perspectives of Sustainable Manufacturing. (From www.oecd.org/innovation/green/toolkit/aboutsustainablemanufacturingandthetoolkit.htm .)Many businesses have already started to take steps toward Sustainable Manufacturing. Their experiences show that environmental improvements go hand in hand with profit-making and improved competitiveness. However, many small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) that account for more than 90% of all enterprises have not yet embraced these great opportunities. Their enterprises often struggle with their short-term survival, or cost pressure from clients, or lack of knowledge and resources to invest in manufacturing sustainably, or simply not know where to start.In the early phase of the sustainability revolution, the business was asking for the “evidence” that would prove that it was profitable to integrate business with environmental and social considerations. UNEP’s International Cleaner Production Information Clearinghouse (ICPIC) came up with 400+ case studies across more than 20 industrial sectors covering not just large but medium and small-scale industries. Similar case studies emerged at the WBCSD, APO, and UNIDO. Today, we do not need any more convincing. We want to know more about “how to go about Sustainable Manufacturing.”
eBook - PDF- Harinirina Randrianarisoa(Author)
- 2019(Publication Date)
- Arcler Press(Publisher)
Introduction to Sustainable Manufacturing 5 process of manufacturing, as well as networking amongst the various scientists across the distinct countries so that they could have further progress within this specific arena. 1.2. VALUE CREATION BY SUSTAINABLE MANU-FACTURING (SM) Engineering is exploiting potentials for useful applications. The process of manufacturing , being the specified discipline in the domain of engineering, generally tends to begin from the thinking as well as imagination possessed by the human beings, from the pertaining information or knowledge regarding the natural phenomena of science, from the creation or formation of the value of the shapes along with the physical materials with the help of the various existing processes within the facet of technology as well as management that have been portrayed in terms of the products, being tangible or intangible, in the provided physical artifacts along with the various services (Figure 1.1). Figure 1.1: Sustainable value creation. Sustainable Manufacturing 6 Source: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-48514-0_13 This research intends to demonstrate how SM embedded in global value creation proves to be superior to traditional paradigms of management and technology. Having sustenance in the process of manufacturing has become an emergency in terms of the requirement as well as a challenge for the survival or livelihood of the mankind on earth as well as for having development or evolvement for the future, possessing a consideration of the pertinent restrictions regarding the varied resources along with their development or the growth and the uneven dispersion of the provided wealth. In here, the understanding of the interpretations regarding the terminology of sustainability in the various domains viz: the economic, ecological as well as social one has been presented.
- Yoseph Bar-Cohen(Author)
- 2018(Publication Date)
- CRC Press(Publisher)
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA, 2016), Sustainable Manufacturing is“The creation of manufactured products through economically-sound processes that minimize negative environmental impacts while conserving energy and natural resources. Sustainable Manufacturing also enhances employee, community and product safety.”The concept of Sustainable Manufacturing can further be clarified by considering that planet Earth is a closed system with limited natural resources. Therefore, the current pace of resource consumption cannot be continued for a long time in existing resource-intensive manufacturing processes. For example, the minable phosphorous reserves on Earth is likely to run out in 50–100 years (Van der Houwen and Valsami-Jones, 2001). Materials and energy prices are going up and down in markets, and for the case of scarce resources, the situation is even more critical. It seems essential, then, to limit the extraction of raw materials from Earth’s lithosphere or biosphere and promote reuse, recycling, and remanufacturing of end-of-life/use (EoL/EoU) products.
- Helena Bartolo, Paulo Jorge Da Silva Bartolo, Nuno Manuel Fernandes Alves, Artur Jorge Mateus, Henrique Amorim Almeida, Ana Cristina Soares Lemos, Flávio Craveiro, Carina Ramos, Igor Reis, Lina Durão, Telma Ferreira, José Pinto Duarte, Filipa Roseta, Eduardo Castro e Costa, Filipe Quaresma, João Pau(Authors)
- 2013(Publication Date)
- CRC Press(Publisher)
Green and smart manufacturing This page intentionally left blank This page intentionally left blank 161 Green Design, Materials and Manufacturing Processes – Bártolo et al. (eds) © 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00046-9 Sustainable work for human centred manufacturing M. Santochi & F. Failli Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy ABSTRACT: Sustainable Manufacturing is a term mainly used with reference to processes which elimi-nate or reduce waste, chemical substances or physical agents hazardous to human health and environment, spare energy and materials as much as possible. Less attention is generally given to social problems and working conditions: but Sustainable Manufacturing means also sustainable work, seen as a mix of physi-cal and mental safety, satisfaction, acceptable working times, dignitous salary, opportunity of learning, to improve one’s professional knowledge and competence. After an introduction dealing with the theories on work organization and related industrial experiences, the paper outlines the main problems of the assem-bly work and proposes some solutions for a future sustainable workplace in assembly processes. industrial efforts, initiatives of international associations. An example is the European legislative action focused on the risk of stress caused by some work-ing activities such as assembly. Work-related stress is experienced when the demands of the work envi-ronment exceed the workers’ ability to cope with (or control) them is the definition given in (OSHA 2002). Workers’ stress may be a consequence of the shorter and shorter times requested for each opera-tion, reduced rest time in the name of productivity and competition and also of more general fac-tors like increasing use of temporary contracts, increased job insecurity and poor work-life bal-ance (Takala 2009).
eBook - PDFSustainable Manufacturing for Industry 4.0
An Augmented Approach
- K. Jayakrishna, Vimal K.E.K., S. Aravind Raj, Asela K. Kulatunga, M.T.H. Sultan, J. Paulo Davim, K. Jayakrishna, Vimal K.E.K., S. Aravind Raj, Asela K. Kulatunga, M.T.H. Sultan, J. Paulo Davim(Authors)
- 2020(Publication Date)
- CRC Press(Publisher)
Demands of a customer should be perfectly met in terms of quality and quality. This can be achieved by using a simple technique known as crowd forecasting which is based on advance analytics. Such technologies can prevent mismatch between supply and demand (Mckinsey Digital, 2015). Therefore, it will increase accuracy and will bring synchronisation between supply and demand. Reduction in mismatch of supply and demand will minimise the rate of waste generation and production will become more sustainable. 55 Sustainable Manufacturing 2.3.3.4 Sustainable Manufacturing in Industry 4.0 According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, Sustainable Manufacturing can be defined as manufacturing of the types of products that will have minimum impact on the environment, conserve natural resources, save energy and are eco-nomical and safe for consumers, employees and communities (International Trade Administration. 2007). Moreover, Sustainable Manufacturing can also be defined as the ‘designing of products and industrial systems in such a way that the natural resources and systems should not be degraded. It should ensure minimum effect of production on human beings, animals and environment’ (Mihelcic et al., 2003). The manufacturing process is the most important operation in a chain of product devel-opment and supply. Because of this, it becomes necessary to bring sustainability to manufacturing, as it will yield sustainable products. This can be achieved by intro-ducing 6R methodology into manufacturing. 6R stands for recycle, reuse, recover, remanufacture, redesign and reduce (Jawahir & Bradley, 2016). In the 6R methodol-ogy, the emphasis is on ‘reduce’ in the initial stages of manufacturing.
- Jérémy Bonvoisin, Günther Seliger, Rainer Stark(Authors)
- 2017(Publication Date)
- Springer Open(Publisher)
The international research community has been particularly active in the last decades in the development of conceptual or concrete solutions toward Sustainable Manufacturing (see for example Arena et al. 2009 ). The objective of the current contribution is to deliver a framework for providing a structured overview of the existing fi eld of research in Sustainable Manufacturing, with a particular focus on industrial engineering. It intends to outline the complementary approaches required 1 Accessed 09.03.2016. Figures for EU-28/2015 and for OECD/2014. 2 Accessed 22.08.2016, last updated 04.02.2016. Field of Research in Sustainable Manufacturing 5 for a transition to Sustainable Manufacturing and their necessary interdisciplinary modus operandi. While Sect. 2.1 provides an overview of previous attempts in this direction, Sect. 2.2 introduces an original framework of Sustainable Manufacturing, according to which the present book publication is structured. Section 3 is speci fi cally dedicated to the discussion of the challenges of multi-, inter-and transdisciplinary approaches faced by researchers in Sustainable Manufacturing. 2.1 Review of Published Frameworks Since the emergence of the fi rst initiatives explicitly termed as green engineering or Sustainable Manufacturing, several reviews of the fi eld have been undertaken and frameworks have been proposed that identify the complementary areas of research that need to be addressed. Jayal et al. ( 2010 ), for example, deliver an overview of strategies for Sustainable Manufacturing with a particular focus on the modelling and assessment techniques for the development of sustainable products, processes and supply chains. Du fl ou et al. ( 2012 ) provide an extensive review of strategies for energy and resource ef fi ciency in discrete part manufacturing, considering fi ve complementary levers: unit process, manufacturing line, facility, manufacturing system and global supply chain.
eBook - ePub- Daniel H. Chen(Author)
- 2016(Publication Date)
- CRC Press(Publisher)
14 ]).FIGURE 12.1 Comparisons of various manufacturing paradigms. (Reprinted with permission from Jawahir, I.S., Sustainable Manufacturing: The driving force for innovative products, processes and systems for next generation manufacturing. 2011, College of Engineering, University of Kentucky: Lexington, KY.)However, the implementation of Sustainable Manufacturing faced challenges from multiple perspectives such as economical, managerial, and technological. For instance, early sustainable practices that focused on the end-of-pipe pollution control were costly and thus lack economic incentives. The management’s unwillingness to change together with the shortage of effective tools of measurement also hindered the progress toward sustainability. Fortunately, these challenges are gradually relieved by a shift in concept and business model, technological breakthroughs, and innovative tools to measure and facilitate sustainability.Retrofit and renovation of existing manufacturing processes for sustainability purposes are normally considered to incur extra capital cost in the short term. However, research studies show that the extra cost can be well justified by the adoption of new sustainable practices. For example, Lou and Huang [15 ] proposed the “profitable pollution prevention (P3)” strategy focusing on source reduction of waste that can achieve pollution prevention and economic incentives as well. Also, many leading industrial companies have seen economic benefits by adopting Sustainable Manufacturing concepts. For example, the 3P Program (Pollution Prevention Pays) from 3M company, which aims for reduction of waste at the source, helped save more than $1 billion from 1975 to 2005 and prevented the release of more than 2.6 billion pounds of pollutants to the environment [16
eBook - PDF- Daniel H. Chen(Author)
- 2016(Publication Date)
- CRC Press(Publisher)
Since then, this paradigm has been extensively enriched to incorporate economic, environmental, and societal evaluations into a holistic framework to analyze the sustainability at an enterprise level. According to Jawahir [14], manufacturing paradigms with more innovative elements would deliver more value to the stakeholder ( Figure 12.1 [14]). 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050 Time Stakeholder value, $ Sustainable Manufacturing ( innovative, 6R-based ) Remanufacture Innovation elements Redesign Recover Recycle Reuse Reduce Green manufacturing ( environmentally-benign, 3R-based ) Lean manufacturing ( waste reduction-based ) Traditional manufacturin g ( substitution-based ) FIGURE 12.1 Comparisons of various manufacturing paradigms. (Reprinted with permis-sion from Jawahir, I.S., Sustainable Manufacturing: The driving force for innovative prod-ucts, processes and systems for next generation manufacturing . 2011, College of Engineering, University of Kentucky: Lexington, KY.) 339 Sustainable Manufacturing and Water Sustainability However, the implementation of Sustainable Manufacturing faced challenges from multiple perspectives such as economical, managerial, and technological. For instance, early sustainable practices that focused on the end-of-pipe pollution control were costly and thus lack economic incentives. The management’s unwillingness to change together with the shortage of effective tools of measurement also hin-dered the progress toward sustainability. Fortunately, these challenges are gradually relieved by a shift in concept and business model, technological breakthroughs, and innovative tools to measure and facilitate sustainability. Retrofit and renovation of existing manufacturing processes for sustainability pur-poses are normally considered to incur extra capital cost in the short term. However, research studies show that the extra cost can be well justified by the adoption of new sustainable practices.
- Duc T. Pham, Eldaw E. Eldukhri, Anthony J. Soroka(Authors)
- 2011(Publication Date)
- Elsevier Science(Publisher)
but these models lack the analysis between the environmental impacts, energy, cost, etc. The study also indicates that technological capabilities and economic risk are the two main factors which prevent a company to adopt Sustainable Manufacturing. An environmental oriented methodology to process selection has been shown in the case study. The powder metallurgy generates low material waste but the production cost is significantly higher compared to the casting process which makes this alternative impracticable in current economic conditions. Although in this case, it is not economic to use the powder metallurgy process; this would need to be reviewed against anticipated increase in energy and landfill cost. It is also anticipated that at high volumes (either due to individual product volume or cumulated volume of all the varieties) and with the use of energy efficient sintering equipment, the cost of the powder metallurgy process can be significantly reduced. The proposed Sustainable Manufacturing system design method forces manufacturing engineers to consider additional environmental factors in process selection such as material waste, tool change or disposal, raw material consumption, landfill costs, waste storage and disposal costs, by- product material reuse and by-product material contamination. References [ 1 ] Legarth JB. Sustainable metal resource management-- the need for industrial development: efficiency improvement demands on metal resource management to enable a (sustainable) supply until 2050. Journal of Cleaner Production. 4 (2) (1996) 97-104 [2] Veleva V and Ellenbecker M. Indicators of sustainable production: Framework and methodology. 9(2001) 519-549 [3] Johansson G. Success factors for integration of Eco- design in product development. Environmental Management and Health. 13(1 ) (2002) 98-107. [4] Randall T and Ulrich K. Product variety supply chain structure and firm performance: Analysis of the US bicycle industry.
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