Framework for Sustainability Performance Assessment for Manufacturing Processes- A Review

[摘要] Manufacturing industries are facing tough competition due to increasing raw material cost and depleting natural resources. There is great pressure on the industry to produce environmental friendly products using environmental friendly processes. To address these issues modern manufacturing industries are focusing on sustainable manufacturing. To develop more sustainable societies, industries need to better understand how to respond to environmental, economic and social challenges. This paper proposed some framework and tools that accelerate the transition towards a sustainable system. The developed framework will be beneficial for sustainability assessment comparing different plans alongside material properties, ultimately helping the manufacturing industries to reduce the carbon emissions and material waste, besides improving energy efficiency. It is expected that this would be highly beneficial for determination of environmental impact of a process at early design stages. Therefore, it would greatly help the manufacturing industries for selection of process plan based on sustainable indices. Overall objective of this paper would have good impact on reducing air emissions and protecting environment. We expect this work to contribute to the development of a standard reference methodology to help further sustainability in the manufacturing sector.

[发布机构] School of Engineering and IT, Faculty of Science and Technology, Federation University, Mt Helen Campus, Australia^1

[效力级别] 经济学

[关键词] Environmental-friendly;Manufacturing industries;Manufacturing process;Manufacturing sector;Protecting environments;Sustainability assessment;Sustainability performance;Sustainable manufacturing