Comparison of Four Environmental Assessment Tools in Swedish Manufacturing: A Case Study
| Autor: | Martin Kurdve, Mats Zackrisson, Anna Runa Kristinsdortter, Sasha Shahbazi, Christina Jönsson |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Performance management
Computer science media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development lcsh:TJ807-830 lcsh:Renewable energy sources 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law 01 natural sciences Teknik och teknologier Production (economics) Quality (business) Environmental impact assessment environmental assessment tool Productivity Life-cycle assessment lcsh:Environmental sciences 0505 law 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common sustainable manufacturing green lean Sustainable development lcsh:GE1-350 Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Sustainable manufacturing lcsh:Environmental effects of industries and plants 05 social sciences Value stream mapping lcsh:TD194-195 Risk analysis (engineering) 050501 criminology Engineering and Technology |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability Volume 11 Issue 7 Sustainability, Vol 11, Iss 7, p 2173 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su11072173 |
| Popis: | To achieve sustainable development goals, it is essential to include the industrial system. There are sufficient numbers of tools and methods for measuring, assessing and improving the quality, productivity and efficiency of production, but the number of tools and methods for environmental initiatives on the shop floor is rather low. Incorporating environmental considerations into production and performance management systems still generally involves a top-down approach aggregated for an entire manufacturing plant. Green lean studies have been attempting to fill this gap to some extent, but the lack of detailed methodologies and practical tools for environmental manufacturing improvement on the shop floor is still evident. This paper reports on the application of four environmental assessment tools commonly used among Swedish manufacturing companies&mdash Green Performance Map (GPM), Environmental Value Stream Mapping (EVSM), Waste Flow Mapping (WFM), and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)&mdash to help practitioners and scholars to understand the different features of each tool, so in turn the right tool(s) can be selected according to particular questions and the industrial settings. Because there are some overlap and differences between the tools and a given tool may be more appropriate to a situation depending on the question posed, a combination of tools is suggested to embrace different types of data collection and analysis to include different environmental impacts for better prioritization and decision-making. |
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