Environmental aspects in manufacturing system modelling and simulation – State of the art and research perspectives
Journal article, 2013

The efficient and effective usage of energy and resources is of rising importance in manufacturing companies. This paper argues that manufacturing system simulation is a promising way to realistically cope with those issues and simultaneously consider them with traditional target dimensions. Against this background, the paper analyses whether commercial simulation tools are already capable to address those aspects. It turns out that environmentally related aspects are currently not sufficiently considered as standard functions. Therefore, based on the analysis of on-going research work, different directions for further development are presented and discussed.

Energy modelling

Survey

Discrete event simulation

Environmental impact assessment

Life cycle assessment tools

Author

Sebastian Thiede

Technische Universität Braunschweig

Yingying Seow

Loughborough University

Jon Andersson

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Production Systems

Björn Johansson

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Production Systems

CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology

1755-5817 (ISSN) 1878-0016 (eISSN)

Vol. 6 1 78-87

Subject Categories

Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Areas of Advance

Production

DOI

10.1016/j.cirpj.2012.10.004

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11/5/2018