Integrating Sustainability Assessment into Manufacturing Decision Making

Prior efforts have focused on environmental assessment coupled with manufacturing cost analysis; however, few have attempted integrated sustainability assessment for manufacturing. An approach is developed for sustainable manufacturing decision making and demonstrated for a machining work cell. Assessment results are obtained and discussed for three production scenarios. A multi-criteria decision making method is applied to aggregate the results from individual economic, environmental, and social assessments. Limitations and future opportunities revealed by this study are discussed, including the challenges of incorporating actual production data, accessibility to social information, and amenability to the optimization of a spectrum of loosely coupled sustainability metrics.

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