Assessing Sustainability in Manufacturing Using a Fuzzy Expert System

Kuik, Swee S.; Nagalingam, Sev V.; Amer, Yousef

doi:10.1109/ibica.2012.36

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“…For instance, the socalled Fuzzy Interference System (FIS)-based model, which is intended for sustainability assessment of manufacturing SMEs [4]. Another tool based on a fuzzy expert system is used to assess sustainability of the product returns and recovery operations in the supply chain, through time, cost, waste and quality attributes [19]. The results are based on subjective experts' opinions about the company.…”

Section: Overview Of Existing Sustainability Assessment Practicesmentioning

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On the Applicability of Sustainability Assessment Tools in Manufacturing

Moldavska

Welo

2015

Procedia CIRP

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The literature on sustainability assessment abounds with different tools, methods, models and frameworks, and the amount of literature on sustainability assessment applied to the field of manufacturing is rapidly growing. This study aims to review the state of the art associated with the latter, synthesising and analysing the applicability of the different approaches with their practical applicability in real-world manufacturing at the heart of the discussion. Based on review of research trends within sustainability assessment, we identified a list of tools addressing three pillars of sustainability which all can be applied on company level. These tools were evaluated from a manufacturing company's point of view, including (1) reliability; (2) manufacturing company's context; (3) time and resources required for assessment; (4) point out problem areas; and (5) point out solutions. Finally, the sustainability assessment framework based on a value chain concept is proposed as a possible solution for handling challenges related to sustainability assessment in manufacturing.

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Section: Overview Of Existing Sustainability Assessment Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

On the Applicability of Sustainability Assessment Tools in Manufacturing

Moldavska

Welo

2015

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“…In views of today's short lifecycle of new and innovative products, the remanufacturing strategy is now considered as one of the compromising ways to minimise large amount of product disposal for landfill [2,3,5]. This has become an important research focus to help manufacturers to cope with the higher costs of waste treamenet and increased burdens.…”

Section: Remanfuacturing Operationsmentioning

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“…This has become an important research focus to help manufacturers to cope with the higher costs of waste treamenet and increased burdens. There are various important factors and aspects that need to be examined for the technical feasibilities and lifecycle constraints including technology life and wear-out life [1][2][3][4]. Currently, there are numerous optimisation models for production planing for remanfuactruing operations but those models exclude the component obsoscelence issues.…”

Section: Remanfuacturing Operationsmentioning

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“…For example, the returned product can be disassembled into multiple subassemblies for secondary markets and for other remanfuacturing processes [2,3].…”

Section: Product Returns Managementmentioning

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“…[1][2][3] To reduce the used product landfill potential, manufacturers are now considering various remanufacturing operations as parts of their strategic planning towards sustainability [4][5][6][7][8]. Staiko et al [9] emphasised that manufacturers must be responsible for managing product returns and reovery operations.…”

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Production Planning and Inventory Control in a Remanufacturing Production System

Kuik

Kaihara

Fujii

et al. 2016

The Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Industrial Application Engineering 2016

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The management of production and inventory control associated activities in remanufacturing production system has received attention by practitioners in the last two decades. This is due to the increased productivity, limited supply of virgin materials, stringent environmental requirements for product disposal and treatment as well as substatial change in global sustainability regulations. In order to constantly attain the supply chain cost savings for manufacturing operations, an integrated production planning model in remanufacturing by considering component obsolescence is developed. The aim of this developed model is to minimise an overall costs for production with remanufacturing operations. A numerical application is demonstrated to show its practical usefulness and flexibility in a remanufacturing production plan by considering different obsolete time periods for used components from returns streams. Finally, the contributions of this study and future works are discussed.

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