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A framework for material flow assessment in manufacturing systems
journal contribution
posted on 2016-03-24, 15:24 authored by Oliver Gould, James ColwillJames ColwillImproving material efficiency is widely accepted as one of the key challenges facing manufacturers in the future. Increasing material consumption is having detrimental impacts on the environment as a result of their extraction, processing, and disposal. It is clear that radical improvements in material efficiency are required to avoid further environmental damage and sustain the manufacturing sector. Current resource management approaches are predominantly used to improve material consumption solely in economic terms. Meanwhile, environmental assessment methodologies can determine sources of significant environmental impact related to a product; however, a methodology to effectively assess material efficiency in production systems is currently not available. This paper highlights the benefits of material flow modeling within manufacturing systems to support advances in increased material efficiency, proposing a framework for “material flow assessment in manufacturing” that promotes greater understanding of material flow and flexibility to explore innovative options for improvement.
Funding
This work was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [grant number EP/I033351/1] as part of the Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Industrial Sustainability.
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Published in
Journal of Industrial and Production EngineeringVolume
32Issue
1Pages
55 - 66Citation
GOULD, O. and COLWILL, J., 2015. A framework for material flow assessment in manufacturing systems. Journal of Industrial and Production Engineering, 32 (1), pp. 55 - 66.Publisher
Taylor & Francis © Chinese Institute of Industrial EngineersVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2015Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published in the Journal of Industrial and Production Engineering on 16 Feb 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/21681015.2014.1000403ISSN
2168-1015eISSN
2168-1023Publisher version
Language
- en