Understanding Life Cycle Social Impacts in Manufacturing: A processed-based approach
| Autor: | David Dornfeld, Margot J. Hutchins, Stefanie L. Robinson |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Engineering
business.industry Process (engineering) Environmental resource management Social sustainability Environmental economics Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Product life-cycle management Sustainable products Hardware and Architecture Control and Systems Engineering Order (exchange) Sustainability business Unit process Social responsibility Software |
| Zdroj: | Hutchins, Margot J.; Robinson, Stefanie L.; & Dornfeld, David. (2013). Understanding Life Cycle Social Impacts in Manufacturing: A processed-based approach. Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 32(4). UC Berkeley: Laboratory for Manufacturing and Sustainability. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/84z0z75t |
| Popis: | Developing sustainable products and processes is growing in importance due to increasing regulation, consumer interest, access to information, and competitive forces. In order to adequately evaluate the sustainability of products and processes, there is a need to consider the impacts from all three pillars of sustainability – society, environment, and economics. There are substantial challenges to identifying and understanding the social impacts associated with manufacturing activities. This paper provides a framework for characterizing the social impacts of manufacturing throughout the life cycle of a product or process. Social impacts occur on various scales in manufacturing, from the level of a unit process to the level of the enterprise. Additionally, manufacturing activities impact consumers, communities, and larger political/spatial realms. This paper identifies key characteristics of social impacts associated with manufacturing that should be considered to more effectively address the social dimension of sustainability for products and processes. Examples involving a typical manufacturing process – welding – are presented to illustrate the utility of the framework. |
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