Simulation and Sustainability Enhancing Event-Discrete-Simulation Software with Sustainability Criteria

Nowadays global initiatives face numerous prob- lems: non-transparent financial developments on the global markets, only a few years after the biggest economic crisis of our times, unsolved ecological problems that, given the ascent of emerging economies, are seemingly getting worse and the almost surreal speed at, which new technologies are changing our societies. The impacts these changes are having on compa- nies worldwide are as numerous as their effects on the popula- tion. Sustainability and Sustainable Development have become key words in the hope of addressing and managing the changes that lay ahead of human societal development. This paper attempts to highlight shortcomings in the concept of sustaina- bility and ways to make the concept more workable by present- ing the development of an Environmental Management Infor- mation System (EMIS) as a combination of discrete event simulation and ecological material flow analysis for production processes.

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