Standardizing environmental performance evaluation of manufacturing systems through ISO 20140

Published

August 6, 2020

Author(s)

Hitoshi Komoto, William Z. Bernstein, Soonjo Kwon, Fumihiko Kimura

Abstract

Standards play a critical role in the realization of more sustainable practices in manufacturing systems. This is especially critical considering the trends in digitization and virtualization of production systems. More data is being generated at unprecedented rates and variety than ever before. To evaluate the environmental performance of manufacturing systems, practitioners often deploy ad-hoc methods or implement one-off solutions that are difficult to replicate in similar scenarios. Such situations can drive-up costs and cause significant delays. Hence, there is a strong need for standard methods that help describe and replicate environmental performance evaluation (EPE) processes. In response, ISO 20140 provides guidelines for converting and aggregating environmental performance evaluation data. This paper provides an overview of ISO 20140, and showcases the usefulness of ISO 20140 by describing and analyzing the usage view of the EPE process. The analysis is conducted with an evaluation experiment jointly conducted by National Institute of Standards and Technology in the United States and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan.

Volume

90

Conference Dates

May 13-15, 2020

Conference Location

Grenoble, FR

Conference Title

Proceedings of the 27th CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering (LCE)

Pub Type

Conferences

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2020.02.043

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Keywords

Standards, ISO 20140, smart manufacturing, sustainable manufacturing, environmental performance evaluation (EPE) data, ISO TC184 SC5 WG10

Citation

Komoto, H. , Bernstein, W. , Kwon, S. and Kimura, F. (2020), Standardizing environmental performance evaluation of manufacturing systems through ISO 20140, Proceedings of the 27th CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering (LCE), Grenoble, FR, [online], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2020.02.043, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=929286 (Accessed June 22, 2025)