DFSME: design for sustainable manufacturing enterprises (an economic viewpoint)

Abstract

Design for sustainable manufacturing enterprise (DFSME) is considered to be a new ideologue regarding survival of manufacturing enterprise and it can also be considered as one of the most important solutions to deal with the existing global financial crisis. The DFSME is a systemic approach that simultaneously determines the aspects of sustainability and how they can be aggregated taking into consideration the globalisation issues. The problem addressed in this paper is how to present the concepts of sustainability to guide manufacturing enterprises analysts and designers with the most effective aspects for analysing sustainability. These aspects are: international issues; contemporary issues; innovative products; reconfigurable manufacturing systems; manufacturing strategies; business models; flexible organisation management; manufacturing strategies and performance measurements. Based on these aspects, the sustainable model will be analysed and presented through covering all aspects of sustainable manufacturing enterprise and the sustainability assessment will be measured. The ultimate goal of this paper is to consider the needs of manufacturing enterprise throughout most of the world to be sustainable as well as to be globalised enterprises. This analysis shows that the DFSME is a very large task and should be taken into consideration as one aspect of the next industrial revolution.

Sustainability in Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprises: An Empirical Study

“…Ron (1998) suggested a five-step assessment procedure for sustainability. A framework for sustainable assessment was presented through the three dimensions of sustainability (Garbie 2013(Garbie , 2014. The performance of sustainable production indicators by using fuzzy measure and the analytical network process (ANP) was evaluated (Tseng et al 2009).…”

“…Sustainable indicators have specific characteristics which come into consideration when designing a framework for assessing sustainability: measurable (quantitatively and/or qualitatively), relevant, understandable, and reliable (Garbie 2013(Garbie , 2014Rosen and Kishawy 2012). A procedure to assess the dimensions of sustainability is introduced and used in assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the SMEs.…”

“…The issues/aspects of each pillar were chosen and filtered after looking through different references throughout this framework based on the proposed mathematical framework published by Garbie (2013Garbie ( , 2014 and an analysis proposed by Winroth et al (2012). Indicators were assigned based on an appropriate unit of measurement.…”

“…To achieve this, a case study will be analyzed and evaluated for sustainability through the three dimensions/pillars of SD based on a combined approach published by Garbie (2013Garbie ( , 2014 and Winroth et al (2012). This paper is organized into several sections.…”

Reconfigurable manufacturing systems: Principles, design, and future trends

“…RMS is not only an open-architecture manufacturing system that can respond to the challenges of globalization [6], but also one that boosts productivity, enhancing thereby the competitiveness of manufacturing enterprises. RMS can also achieve agility and sustainable manufacturing [7,8].…”