Simulation Modelling of Environmental and Economic Aspects in Manufacturing Systems

Data-Driven Simulation for Production Balancing and Optimization: A Case Study in the Fashion Luxury Industry

“…It has been therefore possible to follow both a semi-automated and an automated approach of model generation: avoiding the manual entering of the data has represented a great advantage in complex systems. Finally, data-driven simulation could also be employed to estimate the environmental and economic sustainability of a production system (Ojstersek et al, 2020). Production planning constitutes a multi-objective problem, whose areas of major interest are the consumption of energy, materials and resources.…”

Sustainable Manufacturing: Building the Framework for the Lombardy Region’s Manufacturers

“…Since its first official appearance in a document [2], the sustainability concept has deeply developed over the years, and tailored for different industries and situation. The sustainability concept emphasizes businesses' social and environmental contributions to society [3] while maintaining financial profitability as well [4]. In manufacturing, more than one definition exists of the concept, basically entailing the integration of the best manufacturing practices with the principles of sustainability.…”

“…More recently, Garetti and Taisch's definition of SM as the firm's ability to maintain the intelligent use of natural resources to fulfill economic, social, and environmental aspects, which eventually leads to improving quality of life and preserving the environment. Hereafter, since the Jawahir et al [8] work considering a three levels analysis in SM ("Sustainable manufacturing at product, process and system levels must: demonstrate reduced negative environmental impacts, offer improved energy and resource efficiency, generate minimum quantity of waste, provide operational personnel health while maintaining and/or improving the product and process quality with the overall life-cycle cost benefits), we borrow the Ojstersek et al [4] representation of SM also comprising the three dimensions for sustainability (Figure 1).…”