Moving towards green and sustainable manufacturing

Dornfeld, David

doi:10.1007/s40684-014-0010-7

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“…Actually, several authors have reaffirmed the central role manufacturing plays in the process of "greening" organizations (Dornfeld, 2014;Govindan et al, 2015). This new manufacturing context, also called "sustainable operations management" (Walker et al, 2014), requires the adoption of environmental technologies, as defined by Kuehr (2007).…”

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Putting environmental technologies into the mainstream: Adoption of environmental technologies by medium-sized manufacturing firms in Brazil

Diana

Jabbour

et al. 2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

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The aim of this research is to analyze how critical success factors (CSFs) can influence the adoption of environmental technologies by Brazilian manufacturing companies. In terms of conceptual background, this research fits within the context of environmental management in corporate organizations, focusing on the adoption of environmental technologies in the manufacturing context and their critical success factors. In terms of methodology, this research is based on a case study conducted on two medium-sized industrial companies located in Brazil (company "Alfa" and company "Beta"). The results show the emergence of a new CSF called employee empowerment, which derives from learning and benchmarking initiatives. Two CSFs can be highlighted as the most relevant and unanimously present in both company "Alpha" and company "Beta": support from senior management and employee empowerment through learning and benchmarking. In addition, communication and cultural organizational changes were relevant CSFs, especially for Beta. Furthermore, there is a potential synergistic relationship between CSFs and the maturity level of environmental management. For example, Beta was positioned on a more advanced environmental level as well as had greater intensity in terms of CSFs than Alpha. This work can be considered one of the first researches relating CSFs and the adoption of environmental technologies in medium-sized firms in Brazil.

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Section: A C C E P T E D Accepted Manuscriptmentioning

confidence: 99%

Putting environmental technologies into the mainstream: Adoption of environmental technologies by medium-sized manufacturing firms in Brazil

Diana

Jabbour

et al. 2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…In this context, this study has identified a number of typical indicators to represent product sustainability as a basis for materials selection, based upon the basic principles and guidelines of sustainable design to construct a decision matrix, shown in Table 1 [2,24,55,56]. For any manufacturer, there are triple bottom lines (TBL) to run a sustainable business from bottom to top, i.e., as basic market demand, alternative materials and energy for production, and pursuing societal value for environmental protection [57][58][59][60][61][62].…”

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Commercially Available Materials Selection in Sustainable Design: An Integrated Multi-Attribute Decision Making Approach

Zhao

Chen

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Sustainability

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This paper presents an integrated multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) approach to aid selection of commercially available materials in the context of sustainable design. The MADM couples grey relational analysis (GRA) with an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to rank alternative materials in terms of their economic, environmental, and social performance. AHP is used to determine the corresponding weighting values for the selected indicators. In addition, a case example is used to verify the proposed MADM method and demonstrate its practical application. Three alternative polymer materials, i.e., poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC), polypropylene (PP), and polyethylene (PE), are examined to determine their sustainability for plastic pipe design. The associated MADM result and the limitations of the approach are discussed to lay the foundation for further improvement.

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“…Hence, the design and processing of micro-gear pumps need to be further improved [3]. There are two aspects which can be improved in design of micro-gear pumps.…”

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Development of a micropump composed of three gears with Logix tooth profiles fabricated by micromilling technology

Shi

Zhao

Wan

et al. 2017

Int J Adv Manuf Technol

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Sustainability is a growing interest for industry to integrating and assessing social, environmental, and economic objectives. Involute gear and single-pump feed technology are difficult to satisfy the requirements of sustainability for highhomogeneous medium and low-loss situations. To improve the relative displacement and reduce the volume of the pump, an innovative three-gear micropump was designed. The gears were patterned with Logix tooth profiles which have lower undercutting tendency and are easy to design with a reduced number of teeth. The double-pump confluence technology was used to reduce the flow pulsation based on phase compensation. In this paper, the structural parameters of Logix gear were first calculated through mathematical analysis. Then, a micropump composed of three Logix gears was designed based on the selected parameters and double-pump confluence technology. The Logix gear was manufactured by micromilling experiments, and the three-gear pump was assembled. At last, a pressure fluctuation test platform was implemented to investigate the fluctuation of the three-gear pump and the transmission noise. Results showed that the displacement of the three-gear micropump was doubled compared with the conventional involute gear pump, with 50% flow pulsation reduction. The transmission noise of the Logix gear pump was also reduced. The outcome of this research will contribute to the development of simplified, safer and anti-fuel-burning gear pump systems, and environment-friendly and sustainable manufacturing of such systems.

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Moving towards green and sustainable manufacturing

Cited by 196 publications

References 5 publications

Putting environmental technologies into the mainstream: Adoption of environmental technologies by medium-sized manufacturing firms in Brazil

Putting environmental technologies into the mainstream: Adoption of environmental technologies by medium-sized manufacturing firms in Brazil

Commercially Available Materials Selection in Sustainable Design: An Integrated Multi-Attribute Decision Making Approach

Development of a micropump composed of three gears with Logix tooth profiles fabricated by micromilling technology

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