Paper Info
Title
Startup methodology for production flow simulation projects assessing environmental sustainability.
Abstract
Environmental impact assessments for companies and products are important to increase sales and reduce environmental impact. To support improvements and detailed analyses, researchers have extended the use of simulation of production flows to include sustainability performance indicators. The research cases performed until recently lack standardized methodology and thus have comparability issues and an increase number of common faults. By using a common methodology and gathering best practice, future cases can gain a lot. Especially noted by the authors is that the project startup phase is critical for success. This paper proposes a methodology to support the startup phases of simulation projects with sustainability aspects in production flows. The methodology is developed and applied in an automotive industry study presented in this paper. Using a rigid project startup, such as the proposed methodology, reduces iterations during modeling and data collection and decreases time spent on modeling.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.5555/2675983.2676223
WSC '13: Winter Simulation Conference Washington D.C. December, 2013
Keywords
Field
DocType
sustainable development,automobile industry,discrete event simulation,production management,product life cycle management
Production manager,Data collection,Performance indicator,Systems engineering,Environmental impact assessment,Simulation,Computer science,Life-cycle assessment,Sustainability,Discrete event simulation,Automotive industry
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0891-7736
978-1-4799-2077-8
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
6
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tobias Dettmann120.40
Clas Andersson220.40
Jon Andersson371.73
Anders Skoogh47910.03
Björn Johansson514620.88
Per-Olof Forsbom620.40