Evaluation of methods used for life-cycle assessments in Discrete Event Simulation
Paper i proceeding, 2012

The incitements from society for life-cycle assessment (LCA) and credible ecolables are ever-increasing and often important for successful marketing of products. Robust assessment methods are important for comparable, useful and trustworthy LCAs and ecolables. In order to improve the metrics of a product’s ecolable, is it important to fully understand its production system. Discrete Event Simulation (DES) models are able to provide more detailed information than traditional LCA approaches. Therefore, methods used to combining LCA in DES have been developed during the last decade. The combined approaches have matured and the experiences grown. This article compares six previous cases and aims to summarize and discuss their experiences to aid future development. The results show where it is specifically important to make good decisions throughout the modeling methodology, for example goal and scope definition, trustworthy input data for sensitive parts, and communicable impact categories.

LCA.

sustainability

discrete event simulation

EcoProIT

Författare

Jon Andersson

Chalmers, Produkt- och produktionsutveckling, Produktionssystem

Anders Skoogh

Chalmers, Produkt- och produktionsutveckling, Produktionssystem

Björn Johansson

Chalmers, Produkt- och produktionsutveckling, Produktionssystem

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

08917736 (ISSN)

6465094
978-1-4673-4779-2 (ISBN)

Ämneskategorier

Produktionsteknik, arbetsvetenskap och ergonomi

Drivkrafter

Hållbar utveckling

Styrkeområden

Produktion

DOI

10.1109/WSC.2012.6465094

ISBN

978-1-4673-4779-2

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