An Investigation into Holistic Planning of Urban Factories

Value creation and manufacturing of products is an important part of cities’ sustainable development. Urban-Factories allow such value creation within urban areas. Although Urban-Factories might have unintended negative impacts on their neighborhood, mainly environmental impacts, their urban locatio...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Procedia CIRP 2019, Vol.80, p.649-654
Main Authors: Abdoli, Shiva, Juraschek, Max, Thiede, Sebastian, Kara, Sami, Herrmann, Christoph
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Integrated planning
Logistics
Systems engineering
Urban factories
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Value creation and manufacturing of products is an important part of cities’ sustainable development. Urban-Factories allow such value creation within urban areas. Although Urban-Factories might have unintended negative impacts on their neighborhood, mainly environmental impacts, their urban location can offer positive impacts for both the surrounding city and the companies. To achieve these positive impacts, the design of Urban-Factories requires studying other extra aspects, such as urban services and logistics. However, the logistics aspect of Urban-Factories is mostly studied when the decisions regarding other design aspects are already made. Yet, overlooking logistics (or any other aspect) in early stages might lead to losing good design solutions, potentially negatively affecting lifetime performance of Urban-Factories. Therefore, this paper proposes an approach for analyzing the design knowledge of Urban-Factories in a holistic manner, while providing attention to logistics aspects. The practicality of the proposed approach is demonstrated with a case study.
ISSN:2212-8271
2212-8271
DOI:10.1016/j.procir.2019.01.100