Startup Methodology for Production Flow Simulation Projects Assessing Environmental Sustainability
Paper in proceeding, 2013

Environmental impact assessments for companies and products are important to increase sales and reduce environmental impact. To support improvements and detailed analyses, researchers have extended the use of simulation of production flows to include sustainability performance indicators. The research cases performed until recently lack standardized methodology and thus have comparability issues and an increase number of common faults. By using a common methodology and gathering best practice, future cases can gain a lot. Especially noted by the authors is that the project startup phase is critical for success. This paper proposes a methodology to support the startup phases of simulation projects with sustainability aspects in production flows. The methodology is developed and applied in an automotive industry study presented in this paper. Using a rigid project startup, such as the proposed methodology, reduces iterations during modeling and data collection and decreases time spent on modeling.

Life cycle Assessment

Discrete event simulation

Author

Tobias Dettmann

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Production Systems

Clas Andersson

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Production Systems

Jon Andersson

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Production Systems

Anders Skoogh

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Production Systems

Björn Johansson

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Production Systems

Per-Olof Forsbom

Volvo Cars

Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference

1926-1937 6721572
978-1-4799-2076-1 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics

Environmental Sciences

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Areas of Advance

Production

DOI

10.1109/WSC.2013.6721572

ISBN

978-1-4799-2076-1

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11/20/2018