A Process-Planning Framework for Sustainable Manufacturing

Process planning in manufacturing today focuses on optimizing the conflicting targets of cost, quality, and time. Due to increasing social awareness and subsequent governmental regulation, environmental impact becomes a fourth major aspect. Eventually, sustainability in manufacturing ensures future...

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Published in:Energies (Basel) 2021-09, Vol.14 (18), p.5811
Main Authors: Reiff, Colin, Buser, Matthias, Betten, Thomas, Onuseit, Volkher, Hoßfeld, Max, Wehner, Daniel, Riedel, Oliver
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Competitiveness
computer-aided process planning
Decision making
Energy consumption
Government regulations
laser metal-wire deposition
life-cycle assessment
Manufacturing
Manufacturing industry
Milling (machining)
Multiple criterion
Ontology
Optimization
Process planning
Sustainability
Sustainable development
sustainable manufacturing
Sustainable production
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Summary:Process planning in manufacturing today focuses on optimizing the conflicting targets of cost, quality, and time. Due to increasing social awareness and subsequent governmental regulation, environmental impact becomes a fourth major aspect. Eventually, sustainability in manufacturing ensures future competitiveness. In this paper, a framework for the planning of sustainable manufacturing is proposed. It is based on the abstraction and generalization of manufacturing resources and part descriptions, which are matched and ranked using a multi-criteria decision analysis method. Manufacturing resources provide values for cost, quality, time and environmental impacts, which multiply with their usage within a manufacturing task for a specific part. The framework is validated with a detailed modeling of a laser machine as a resource revealing benefits and optimization potential of the underlying data model. Finally, the framework is applied to a use case of a flange part with two different manufacturing strategies, i.e., laser metal-wire deposition and conventional milling. The most influential parameters regarding the environmental impacts are the raw material input, the manufacturing energy consumption and the machine production itself. In general, the framework enabled the identification of non-predetermined manufacturing possibilities and the comprehensive comparison of production resources.
ISSN:1996-1073
1996-1073
DOI:10.3390/en14185811