An Overview of a Proposed Measurement Infrastructure for Sustainable Manufacturing

Published

December 23, 2009

Author(s)

Shaw C. Feng, Che B. Joung

Abstract

As the global resources depletion, climate change, and environmental pollution are worsening due to increasing globalized industrialization, manufacturing industry is under pressure to cope with the problems and maintain competiveness. Sustainable manufacturing has been proposed to meet the challenges faced by the industrialized countries. The measurement of sustainability in manufacturing is an enabler to quantitatively measure performance in sustainability in specific manufacturing processes. A sustainable manufacturing measurement infrastructure is proposed in this paper. The components include sustainable indicators and metrics repository, measurement methods and guidelines, and sensor descriptions. The sustainability measurement infrastructure provides a foundation for decision-making tools development and is expected to be tightly integrated into business strategy development processes.

Proceedings Title

Proceedings of the 7th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing

Conference Dates

December 2-4, 2009

Conference Location

Chennai,

Pub Type

Conferences

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Keywords

Sustainable Manufacturing, Sustainability Performance Analysis, Sustainability Measurement

Citation

Feng, S. and Joung, C. (2009), An Overview of a Proposed Measurement Infrastructure for Sustainable Manufacturing, Proceedings of the 7th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing, Chennai, , [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=904166 (Accessed March 14, 2025)