Benchmarking Holistic Optimization Potentials in the manufacturing Industry – A Concept to Derive Specific Sustainability Recommendations for Companies

Waltersmann, Lara; Kiemel, Steffen; Bogdanov, Ivan; Lettgen, J.; Miehe, Robert; Sauer, Alexander; Mandel, Joerg

doi:10.1016/j.promfg.2020.01.445

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“…By taking a holistic view of the defined five fields of action, conflicting goals, for example, between energy efficiency, emission reduction, and the yield of chemical processes, can be identified and thus resolved or even eliminated. [ 23,24 ] When considering industrial energy systems, ultra‐efficiency can contribute, for example, by integrating technologies to increase energy efficiency and flexibility as well as energy distribution and storage. The holistic consideration of the five fields of action ensures that environmental or social impacts are not shifted, for example, within the life cycle phases of a product, and actual improvements are achieved.…”

Section: Efficiency Of Chemical Production With Electricitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[ 22 ] Aiming at a holistic view of production sites, the concept of the ultra‐efficient factory follows five fields of action, namely, material, energy, emission, human/staff, and organization. [ 23,24 ] Thus, the electrification of the chemical industry, in combination with efficient heat recovery, is one of the keys to reach the concept of an ultra‐efficient chemical factory. [ 25 ]…”

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The chemical industry must become carbon neutral by 2050, meaning that process-, energy-, and product-related CO 2 emissions from fossil sources are completely suppressed. This goal can only be reached by using renewable energy, secondary raw materials, or CO 2 as a carbon source. The latter can be done indirectly through the bioeconomy or directly by utilizing CO 2 from air or biogenic sources (integrated biorefinery). Until 2030, CO 2 waste from fossilbased processes can be utilized to curb fossil CO 2 emissions and reach the turning point of global fossil CO 2 emissions. A technology mix consisting of recycling technologies, white biotechnology, and carbon capture and utilization (CCU) technologies is needed to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality. In this context, CHEMampere contributes to the goal of carbon neutrality with electricity-based CCU technologies producing green chemicals from CO 2 , N 2 , O 2 , and H 2 O in a decentralized manner. This is an alternative to the e-Refinery concept, which needs huge capacities of water electrolysis for a centralized

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“…Material, energy, human resources, and capital should be used in such a way that emissions and waste are avoided. By improving not only the efficiency of the production output but also the consumption of resources, the ultra-efficiency enables a simultaneous increase in eco-efficiency while realizing eco-effectiveness [24][25][26]. Influenced by the emerging potentials of digital and biological transformation [27,28], new methods and opportunities are enabling the future development of the ultra-efficiency factory.…”

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Principles of Management Systems for Positive Impact Factories

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The sustainable design of production systems is essential for the industry’s future viability. In this context, the concept of positive impact factories has recently evolved, striving for a completely loss-free factory benefiting positively its surroundings. To establish a holistic view of this approach in everyday corporate life, it is necessary to develop a management policy with defined process flows in the sense of a dedicated management system. This paper thus reviews the scientific literature on (sustainable) management systems and develops a tailored management system for the example of the ultra-efficiency factory. In doing so, we specifically combine and complement established management systems such as environmental, energy and quality management, as well as compliance, maintenance, and lean management. In order to define an applicable framework, the basic considerations presented here were developed in cooperation with and reviewed by a large German automotive supplier. Thereupon, the results are discussed with regard to the future implementation of the system, and starting points for future research are derived.

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“…In any case, sustainable production requires the highest possible degree of transparency regarding the quantity and impact of the materials, substances and energy used as well as the emissions and waste produced 122 . This implies the necessity of standardized acquisition and storage of relevant data as well as semantic description.…”

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Sustainable production and the role of digital twins–Basic reflections and perspectives

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Sustainable production is essential for the future of the global economy. Despite the publication of its baseline vision over 30 years ago and the resulting diversity of interpretations and subdisciplines in engineering and social sciences, the progress of the approach in industrial practice remains marginal. This is mainly due to the fact that the discipline has not yet succeeded to realize the magnitude of the rethinking necessary of its very own perception as a whole. Existing definitions of sustainable production presented to date are thus only partly consistently derived from the baseline concept. Meanwhile, digitalization provides an increasing number of technologies that offer a new perspective on sustainable production. This especially applies to the concept of digital twins. Recent studies, thus, address their role in the context of sustainable production by analyzing its contribution to existing sustainability related methods as well as technical challenges on a microeconomic level (bottom‐up approach). Although these approaches provide concrete requirements for technical deployment, it is highly questionable how they will contribute to sustainable production as a whole. In this paper, we choose a top‐down approach to discuss the role of digital twins in the context of sustainable production. Based on fundamental reflections on the baseline concept of sustainability, we advocate a reorientation of production within the framework of planetary boundaries. Thereupon, we discuss the role of digital twins and digital threads and provide a number of requirements that future R&D needs to address for a future sustainability‐oriented data‐driven monitoring and regulation of production.

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Benchmarking Holistic Optimization Potentials in the manufacturing Industry – A Concept to Derive Specific Sustainability Recommendations for Companies

Cited by 13 publications

References 6 publications

CHEMampere: Technologies for sustainable chemical production with renewable electricity and CO₂, N₂, O₂, and H₂O

CHEMampere: Technologies for sustainable chemical production with renewable electricity and CO₂, N₂, O₂, and H₂O

Principles of Management Systems for Positive Impact Factories

Sustainable production and the role of digital twins–Basic reflections and perspectives

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Benchmarking Holistic Optimization Potentials in the manufacturing Industry – A Concept to Derive Specific Sustainability Recommendations for Companies

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CHEMampere: Technologies for sustainable chemical production with renewable electricity and CO2, N2, O2, and H2O

CHEMampere: Technologies for sustainable chemical production with renewable electricity and CO2, N2, O2, and H2O

Principles of Management Systems for Positive Impact Factories

Sustainable production and the role of digital twins–Basic reflections and perspectives

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CHEMampere: Technologies for sustainable chemical production with renewable electricity and CO₂, N₂, O₂, and H₂O

CHEMampere: Technologies for sustainable chemical production with renewable electricity and CO₂, N₂, O₂, and H₂O