The Development of the Sustainable Manufacturing Processes

Ding, Lu; Qiu, Xiao; Mullineux, Glen; Matthews, Jason

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“…AHP methodology has several benefits [10]. First, it helps to disintegrate an unstructured problem into a rational decision hierarchy.…”

Section: Sustainable Manufacturing Evaluation Model For Steel Rementioning

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Key Performance Indicators of Steel Re-Rolling Mills for Sustainable Manufacturing

2018

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The steel re-rolling mills are facing challenges to enforce sustainable manufacturing into their products and techniques. Steel re-rolling manufacturing process has remarked as an intensive consumer of natural material, fossil fuels, energy, and a major source of multiple pollution. Hence, evaluating the sustainable manufacturing on this enterprise is grown to be a need. This paper proposes a group of Key performance Indicators (KPIs) for comparing the sustainable production believed to be suitable to the steel re-rolling mill enterprise based on the triple pillars of sustainability. The Analytical Hierarchy process (AHP) technique is carried out to prioritize the overall performance indicators by means of summarizing the evaluations of specialists. It's miles hoped that the proposed KPIs permits and assists the steel re-rolling mill enterprise to reap the higher overall performance in sustainable manufacturing and to be able to boom the competitiveness. Keywords-analytic hierarchy process, steel re-rolling industry, key performance indicators, sustainable manufacturing I. INTRODUCTION In recent times, sustainable production has turn out to be a very critical problem among industries sector around the whole world. Attaining sustainable manufacturing has been identified as a crucial need due to diminishing non-renewable sources, stricter policies related to surroundings and occupational fitness and protection, and increasing consumer choice for environmental-friendly merchandise [1]. It has been mentioned that those groups adopting sustainable practices are capable of acquiring better product satisfaction, higher marketplace proportion, and expanded earnings [2]. Sustainable production practices have additionally been visible to be definitely associated with competitive effects [3]. Consequently, developing sustainable approaches to manufacturing organizations has been regarded as a important worldwide concern [4]. Sustainable manufacturing described as the creation of manufactured products that decrease bad environmental influences, conserve electricity and natural assets, are secure for employees, groups and customers and are economically sound [5]. The overall precept of sustainable manufacturing is to reduce the depth of substances use, electricity consumption, emissions, and the creation of undesirable by way of products even as retaining, or enhancing, the value of products to society and to cluster[6]. Consistent with the definition, sustainable production have to address the combination all the three signs of environmental, social, and financial, recognised as the triple pillars of sustainability. Accordingly, sustainable production must be evaluated with admire to those 3 pillars. Sustainable manufacturing is surely one of the critical troubles for the steel re-rolling mills. Rolled steel, as the most vital aspect of strength enhancer, is a essential material for society's infrastructure creation round the arena[7]. In this glance , a literature overview was carried out in an try to determine signs usuall...

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“…AHP methodology has several benefits [10]. First, it helps to disintegrate an unstructured problem into a rational decision hierarchy.…”

Section: Sustainable Manufacturing Evaluation Model For Steel Rementioning

confidence: 99%

Key Performance Indicators of Steel Re-Rolling Mills for Sustainable Manufacturing

2018

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“…The same approach was conducted by Jones and McManus [8] investigating high voltage cables. The green design of subtractive machining has been studied by Ding et al [9], investigating purely energy consumption of a variety of milling systems while machining. Azkarate et al [10] concentrated on the development of a design support approach for the creation sustainable machine tools.…”

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Environmental Auditing of a Packaging System for Redesign: A Case Study Exploration

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Abstract-Within the United Kingdom a significant portion of the energy consumed each year is done so through industry. It is therefore desirable to take measures that reduce this consumption. A process common to all manufacturing sectors is that of packaging, and this research focused on identifying, quantifying and reducing the environmental impact of one such system. It finally took the form of an abridged life cycle assessment focusing on the manufacturing and assembly stage of a packaging systems life. Two separate studies were conducted to evaluate the performance of specific tools for such environmental studies. Where, the total embodied energy and carbon of each sub-assembly of the systems was calculated and their contribution to the whole machine established. These were further broken down into material production and machine processes in order to establish where the major impacts were and potential areas for redesign. Both approaches were found to be resource hungry in their application, an output that may restrict their application in the type of company that operate in this domain. A surprising finding was that producing a design with lower environmental impact could be less expensive.

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The Development of the Sustainable Manufacturing Processes

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Key Performance Indicators of Steel Re-Rolling Mills for Sustainable Manufacturing

Key Performance Indicators of Steel Re-Rolling Mills for Sustainable Manufacturing

Environmental Auditing of a Packaging System for Redesign: A Case Study Exploration

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