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Modeling, Simulation and Analysis for Sustainable Product Development

November 17, 2010
Author(s)
Mahesh Mani, Bjoern J. Johansson, Kevin W. Lyons, Ram D. Sriram, Gaurav Ameta
Simulation plays a critical role in the design of products, materials and manufacturing processes. Increasingly, simulation is replacing physical tests to ensure product reliability and quality thereby facilitating steady reductions in design cycles

Modeling and Simulation Analysis Types for Sustainable Manufacturing

October 6, 2010
Author(s)
Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao, Yung-Tsun T. Lee
Sustainable manufacturing could be further be promoted by the effective use of Modeling and Simulation (M&S) applications. These applications can evaluate manufacturing operations in light of increasing legislation and awareness for environmental

A Framework for Multi-Resolution Modeling of Sustainable Manufacturing

September 22, 2010
Author(s)
Sanjay Jain, Deogratias Kibira
This paper proposes a multi-resolution framework for application of system dynamics modeling to sustainable manufacturing. Sustainable manufacturing involves interaction of four complex systems namely manufacturing, environmental, financial, and social

Framework and Indicators for a Sustainable Manufacturing Mapping Methodology

August 31, 2010
Author(s)
Marja Paju, Juhani Heilala, Markku Hentula, Antti Heikkila, Bjorn Johansson, Swee K. Leong, Kevin W. Lyons
Increasing numbers of companies in the manufacturing industry have identified market potential for implementing sustainable and green manufacturing. Yet, current sustainability assessment tools for companies are complicated, requiring vast amounts of data

Summary of the NIST Workshop on Sustainable Manufacturing: Metrics, Standards, and Infrastructure

August 31, 2010
Author(s)
Sudarsan Rachuri, Ram D. Sriram, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Prabir Sarkar, Jae H. Lee, Kevin W. Lyons, Vijay Srinivasan, Sharon J. Kemmerer
This paper summarizes the presentations, discussions, and recommendations of the NIST Workshop Sustainable Manufacturing: Metrics, Standards, and Infrastructure held at NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, October 13th through October 15th, 2009. The primary

A Measurement Infrastructure for Sustainable Manufacturing

August 6, 2010
Author(s)
Shaw C. Feng, Che B. Joung
Global resource degradation, climate change, and environmental pollution are worsening due to increasing globalized industrialization. The manufacturing industry has thus been put under pressure to cope with these problems while maintaining competiveness

Editorial: Special Issue on: "Developing Sustainable Products, Processes and Services"

August 1, 2010
Author(s)
Sudarsan Rachuri, Prabir Sarkar, Dimitris Kiritsis, Masaru Nakano
We are witnessing an increased interest to ensure that future generations have adequate resources to maintain a high standard of living. The World Commission on Environment and Development defines sustainable development as, Sustainable development is

Sustainable Manufacturing: Metrics, Standards, and Infrastructure - Workshop Summary

May 31, 2010
Author(s)
Sudarsan Rachuri, Ram D. Sriram, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Prabir Sarkar, Jae H. Lee, Kevin W. Lyons, Sharon J. Kemmerer
This report summarizes the presentations, discussions, and recommendations of the NIST Workshop Sustainable Manufacturing: Metrics, Standards, and Infrastructure held at NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, October 13th through October 15th, 2009. The

A Virtual Machining Model for Sustainability Analysis

May 12, 2010
Author(s)
Guodong Shao, Deogratias Kibira, Kevin W. Lyons
Sustainability has become a very significant research topic since it impacts many different manufacturing industries. The adoption of sustainable manufacturing practices and technologies offers industry a cost effective route to improve economic

Impact of Energy Measurements in Machining Operations

May 12, 2010
Author(s)
Minna S. Lanz, Mahesh Mani, Swee K. Leong, Kevin W. Lyons, Ari Ranta, Kimmo Ikkala, Nils Bengtsson
OOver the past years, institutions in general are increasingly interested and involved in sustainability and social responsibility. In addition, social and political pressures have led to the creation of new regulations and policies that support new

Sustainable Manufacturing: Metrics, Standards, and Infrastructure - NIST Workshop Report

April 21, 2010
Author(s)
Sudarsan Rachuri, Jae H. Lee, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Prabir Sarkar, Kevin W. Lyons, Ram D. Sriram, Sharon J. Kemmerer
This report summarizes the presentations, discussions and recommendations of NIST Workshop on Sustainable Manufacturing: Metrics, Standards, and Infrastructure held at NIST, USA, on October 13th through October 15th, 2009. The primary objective of this

Comparison of Electronics Products Standards for Sustainability

March 1, 2010
Author(s)
Gaurav Ameta, Prabir Sarkar
This paper focuses on electronics product standards in relation to sustainability. Sustainability can be viewed as the ability of the current generation to meet its own need while protecting the environment so that the future generations can also meet

Development Overview of Sustainable Manufacturing Metrics

February 18, 2010
Author(s)
Shaw C. Feng, Che B. Joung
The manufacturing industry is facing the challenge of measuring sustainability performance in a product s life cycle. Developing metrics for sustainable manufacturing is critical to enable manufacturing companies to quantitatively measure the

Development Overview of an Information Model for Disassembly

December 23, 2009
Author(s)
Shaw C. Feng, Hanmin Lee, Che B. Joung, P. Ghodous
Manufacturing is a fundamental support of an industrialized society. Currently, manufacturing industry is facing major challenges, such as resources depletion, global climate change, environmental pollution, and social well being for the future generations

A System Dynamics Modeling Framework for Sustainable Manufacturing

August 10, 2009
Author(s)
Deogratias Kibira, Sanjay Jain, Charles McLean
This paper proposes a framework for application of system dynamics modeling to sustainable manufacturing. Sustainable manufacturing involves interaction of multiple complex systems including those in manufacturing, environmental, financial, and social

Environmental impact of manufactured products: A measure inspired by nature

July 10, 2009
Author(s)
Prabir Sarkar, Sudarsan Rachuri, Hyo Won Suh, Kevin W. Lyons, Ram D. Sriram
Environmental impacts of products are generally determined by using criteria or indicators. There are many criteria or indicators available and during design selecting some of them and assigning weight is difficult. As natural systems are considered to be

Towards Information Networks to Support Composable Manufacturing

October 15, 2008
Author(s)
Mahesh Mani, Albert W. Jones, Jun H. Shin, Ram D. Sriram
Rigid, supply-chain organizational structures are giving way to highly dynamic collaborative partnerships. These partnerships will develop rapidly by composing global manufacturing resources in response to open market opportunities; and, they will disband

Science based Information Metrology for Engineering Informatics

September 1, 2007
Author(s)
Sudarsan Rachuri
Engineering informatics is the discipline of creating, codifying (structure and behavior that is syntax and semantics), exchanging (interactions and sharing), processing (decision making), storing and retrieving (archive and access) the digital objects

Sustaining Engineering Informatics: Toward Methods and Metrics for Digital Curation

September 1, 2007
Author(s)
Joshua Lubell, Eswaran Subrahmanian, Mahesh Mani, Sudarsan Rachuri
Ensuring the long-term usability of engineering informatics (EI) artifacts is a challenge, particularly for products with longer life cycles than the computing hardware and software used for their design and manufacture. Addressing this challenge requires

Data Exchange of Parametric CAD Models Using ISO 10303-108

July 1, 2007
Author(s)
Junhwan Kim, Mike Pratt, Raj G. Iyer, Ram D. Sriram
Modern CAD systems generate feature-based product shape models with parameterization and constraints. Until recently, standards for CAD data exchange among different CAD systems were restricted to the exchange of pure shape information. These standards

Dimensional Inspection Planning Based on Product Data Standards

July 1, 1994
Author(s)
Shaw C. Feng
This paper describes an activity model for dimensional inspection planning that bridges the gap between product design and the dimensional measurement of manufactured products. Functionally, this model specifies requirements for developing a part of a
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