ASSESSING THE ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT OF MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS: A SURVEY OF CURRENT LITERATURE
Environmental sustainability is now becoming a high priority for many major industries. While the growing concern to preserve our environment is critical to consumers, industries can also realize additional benefits of higher production efficiency and lower costs with this emphasis. Current research has focused on identifying carbon maps of supply chains by assessing the carbon footprint of their products. There appears little work done on establishing methodologies that standardize these attempts. The proposed paper surveys existing approaches, identifies commonly utilized methodologies and looks beyond carbon criteria for sustainable manufacturing. The challenges of establishing a comprehensive and standardized index based on all the manufacturing aspects, allowing companies to quickly assess the environmental footprint of their manufactured products are detailed. This exploratory paper also details possible approaches to alleviate shortcomings in current research.
Environmental sustainability Green manufacturing Environmental footprint Standardized performance indez
M. Gaussin G. Hu M.R. Shankar B. Bidanda
P.le Systèmes Industriels et Logistiques, Institut Fran.ais de Mécanique Avancée, Clermont Ferrand,F Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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上海
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2009-08-02（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）