A sustainable manufacturing tool for the analysis and management of resource consumption within production processes
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SHORT ORIGINAL PAPER
A sustainable manufacturing tool for the analysis and management of resource consumption within production processes Marco Marconi1
· Roberto Menghi2
Received: 26 February 2020 / Accepted: 23 September 2020 © Springer-Verlag France SAS, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Reducing energy/resource consumption in production processes can significantly improve the environmental performance of manufacturing systems. This paper proposes a sustainable manufacturing method and tool and describes its application in a mechanical engineering company which produces automotive components. The tool allows to map the processes/activities and the related resources consumed, assess the efficiency through specific key performance indicators, identify process criticalities and thus set mitigation or improvement strategies. Keywords Sustainable manufacturing tool · Energy efficiency · Energy management · Resource consumption · Resource mapping
1 Introduction Manufacturing systems and processes can be considered essential items of the modern society. On one side, they directly contribute to the growing of the world economy and to the employment of a very large part of the world population [8]. On the other side, instead, they are largely considered a critical sector due to the high consumption of energy and resources, generation of wastes and emissions of substances responsible of climate changes [9]. In this context, the concepts of sustainable production, sustainable manufacturing, energy efficiency and process sustainability are assuming importance at industrial, academic and legislative levels. Companies need to implement these kinds of approaches to be compliant with regulations, maintain position in the market and satisfy customers. Academia need to develop innovative methods and tools to support companies in the different decision-making processes related to the abovementioned themes [2].
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Marco Marconi [email protected] Roberto Menghi [email protected]
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Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Largo dell’Università, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
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Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy
The energy/resource management of a production system requires first of all the knowledge of how, when and where energy and resources are consumed. Only in this way the most appropriate and effective improvement strategies can be adopted. Energy and resource assessment tools play a key role to minimize resource wastes, favour collaboration among relevant internal and external stakeholders, assess the entire production process/line/plant by using key performance indicators [6]. Scientific literature includes several examples of tools to support the analysis and optimization of manufacturing systems. This is the case of the ISO 50001 Analyzer that supports in performing energy audits compliant with the standard [3]. The entire plant, instead, is analysed by the tool from Boyd et al. [1] that allows to compare the energy efficiency performance of a plant with reference data to hav
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