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Manufacturing

Sustainable manufacturing

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REQUIREMENTS ANALYSES TO SUPPORT A MATERIAL INFORMATION MODEL FOR SUSTAINABILITY

November 21, 2013
Author(s)
Paul W. Witherell, Arvind Harinder, Katherine C. Morris
Materials, and therefore material selections, influence the sustainable impact of a product from beginning to end-of-life. With improved access to material information, product designers can attain newfound insight into the sustainability implications of

TOWARDS THE SYNTHESIS OF PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE ACROSS THE LIFECYCLE

November 21, 2013
Author(s)
Paul W. Witherell, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Sudarsan Rachuri
Product lifecycle management is an important aspect of today’s industry, as it serves to facilitate information exchange and management between most, if not all, stages of a product’s existence. As exchanged product information is inevitably subjected to

A Methodology for Handling Standards Terminology for Sustainable Manufacturing

October 30, 2013
Author(s)
Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, David J. Lechevalier, Katherine C. Morris, Sudarsan Rachuri
In order to develop the discipline of sustainable manufacturing, the language of discourse needs to be properly and clearly communicated, for both manufacturers and consumers. As a result a range of information standards that define the needed terminology

Feature Information Model for Disassembly

August 20, 2013
Author(s)
Shaw C. Feng
As sustainability becomes an important issue nowadays, disassembly becomes one of the key processes to turn out-of-service products into new or rebuilt products to save energy and materials. A disassembly process includes many subprocesses, such as

Energy Metrics for Product Assembly Equipment and Processes

August 13, 2013
Author(s)
Shaw C. Feng, FNU Kumaraguru, Christopher U. Brown, Boonserm Kulvatunyou
A key factor deciding the capacity to increase the sustainability of final products is the energy efficiency. The energy embodied in a product is an aggregation of all of the energy embodied in the products' components and subsystems, expended through its

Integration of Energy Information for Product Assembly and Logistics Processes

August 13, 2013
Author(s)
Shaw C. Feng, FNU Kumaraguru, Kincho H. Law, Kyeong Rim Ahn
This paper presents an on-going effort at NIST to model the energy performance in assembly and supply chain processes as a part of a larger sus-tainability improvement goal. Energy performance modeling comprises two dis-tinct metrics like energy

Status and Opportunities to Support Product Category Rules in the U.S.

August 12, 2013
Author(s)
Rita Schenck
Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) are a kind of ecolabel that discloses the environmental impacts of a product over its life cycle, using the science of life cycle assessment. EPDs hold out the promise of supporting science based decisions in

A Model Based Continuous Improvement Methodology for Sustainable Manufacturing

August 7, 2013
Author(s)
Sanjay Jain, Guodong Shao, Alexander Brodsky, Frank H. Riddick
This paper proposes a model based continuous improvement methodology to support efforts to achieve sustainable manufacturing, i.e., to increase efficiency and reduce environmental impact of manufacturing systems. Past efforts have provided guidance at a

IDENTIFYING THE MATERIAL INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS FOR SUSTAINABLE DECISION MAKING

August 7, 2013
Author(s)
Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Paul W. Witherell, Jae H. Lee, Katherine C. Morris, Sudarsan Rachuri
Materials play a central role in product manufacturing, contributing to each phase of product development in the form of either a component or process material. As the product revolves around materials, so does much of the product information. Material

SUSTAINABILITY CHARACTERIZATION FOR DIE CASTING PROCESS

August 7, 2013
Author(s)
Megan F. Watkins, Mahesh Mani, Kevin W. Lyons, Satyandra K. Gupta
The manufacturing sector accounts for approximately one-third of the total energy consumption in the United States. Today, sustainable manufacturing has become an area of increasing interest, as companies look to reduce their manufacturing footprint and

CHARACTERIZING ENERGY CONSUMPTION OF THE INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS

June 14, 2013
Author(s)
Jatinder Madan, Mahesh Mani, Kevin W. Lyons
Presently available systems for sustainability assessment do not fully account for aspects related to a product’s manufacturing. In an effort to make more sustainable decisions, today’s industry seeks reliable methods to assess and compare sustainability

Disassembly Process Information Model for Remanufacturing

April 22, 2013
Author(s)
Shaw C. Feng, Hanmin Lee, Thomas R. Kramer, Che B. Joung, Parisa Ghodous, Ram D. Sriram
The disassembly process is an essential activity performed on out-of-service products for remanufacturing. A disassembly process includes many subprocesses, such as separation, cleaning, repair, replacement, and inspection. The main purpose of performing

Toward an Integrated Decision Support Framework for Sustainability CAE

April 22, 2013
Author(s)
Lalit Patil, Lakshmi Srinivas, Krishna Murthy, Debasish Dutta, Sudarsan Rachuri
Sustainability evaluation is typically conducted after the product is completely designed. However, sustainability, like cost and weight, needs to be managed on a continuous basis, throughout the product development cycle. This requires a decision support

Simulation and Analysis for Sustainable Product Development

January 9, 2013
Author(s)
Mahesh Mani
Purpose: Simulation plays a critical role in the design of products, materials and manufacturing processes. However, there are gaps in the simulation tools used by industry to provide reliable results from which effective decisions can be made about

Modeling Gaps and Overlaps of Sustainability Standards

May 28, 2012
Author(s)
Paul W. Witherell, Sudarsan Rachuri, Anna D'Alessio
Organizational and production dispersions in manufacturing enterprises can create situations where manufacturers are asked to conform to multiple sustainability standards to participate in targeted markets. These standards may vary in scope, application

A Prototype Web-Based User Interface for Sustainability Modeling and Optimization

March 28, 2012
Author(s)
Guodong Shao, David Westbrook, Alexander Brodsky
A growing number of manufacturing industries are initiating efforts to address sustainability issues. Energy efficient manufacturing and low carbon manufacturing are gaining particular attention. Finding the optimal solution of operational strategy and

Energy Efficiency Analysis for a Casting Production System

December 14, 2011
Author(s)
Jonatan K. Berglund, John L. Michaloski, Swee K. Leong, Guodong Shao, Frank H. Riddick, Jorge Arinez, Stephan Biller
A growing number of manufacturing industries are initiating efforts to address sustainability issues. A study by the National Association of Manufacturers indicated that the manufacturing sector currently accounts for over a third of all energy consumed in

Trust Based Multi-Agent Filtering for Increased Smart Grid Security

October 24, 2011
Author(s)
Ion Matei, Vijay Srinivasan
We address the problem of state estimation of the power system for the Smart Grid.We assume that the monitoring of the electrical grid is done by a network of agents with both computing and communication capabilities. We propose a security mechanism aimed

A Decision-Guided Energy Management Framework for Sustainable Manufacturing

August 31, 2011
Author(s)
Guodong Shao, Alexander Brodsky, Jorge Arinez , Daniel A. Menasce , Paul Ammann
A growing number of manufacturing industries are initiating efforts to address sustainability issues. According to the National Association of Manufacturers, the manufacturing sector currently accounts for about one third of all energy consumed in the

Integration of Life Cycle Inventories Incorporating Manufacturing Unit Processes

August 31, 2011
Author(s)
Mark B. Campanelli, Jonatan K. Berglund, Sudarsan Rachuri
Sustainable manufacturing (SM) concerns the manufacture of products with regard to environmental, social, and economic impacts over the entire life cycle. With a primary focus on environmental concerns, life cycle assessment (LCA) can support SM practices
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