TY - GEN

T1 - Corporate Strategy Based Quantitative Assessment of Sustainability Indicators at the Example of a Laser Powder Bed Fusion Process

AU - Wurst, Johanna

AU - Schneider, Jannik Alexander

AU - Ehlers, Tobias

AU - Mozgova, Iryna

AU - Lachmayer, Roland Johann

N1 - Funding Information: Acknowledgement. This research has been funded by the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony (MWK) – School for Additive Manufacturing SAM.

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - The definition of the sustainability of a product or a process depends on certain consideration. Frameworks for a methodological evaluation of environmental sustainability are proposed in ISO 14040/44 though a standardized assessment based on fixed parameters and standards is not suitable for every application. Here, an approach to define sustainability based on individually formulated corporate strategies using the example of the “cradle-to-grave” assessment using Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) as an additive manufacturing process is presented. By means of this approach, components of corporate strategies are identified and analyzed regarding existing conflicting goals and correlated with previously defined sustainability potentials. The result of this correlation is strategy-specific influencing factors, indicators and quantifiable variables that relate to the process chain of the LPBF method under investigation. A method is presented which, based on the correlations determined, enables to quantitatively assess the sustainability of the product during its life cycle. The application of this method is shown and verified at the example of two literature-based corporate strategies. Finally, the challenges for future developments of sustainability-oriented quantification options are discussed on the basis of the results.

AB - The definition of the sustainability of a product or a process depends on certain consideration. Frameworks for a methodological evaluation of environmental sustainability are proposed in ISO 14040/44 though a standardized assessment based on fixed parameters and standards is not suitable for every application. Here, an approach to define sustainability based on individually formulated corporate strategies using the example of the “cradle-to-grave” assessment using Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) as an additive manufacturing process is presented. By means of this approach, components of corporate strategies are identified and analyzed regarding existing conflicting goals and correlated with previously defined sustainability potentials. The result of this correlation is strategy-specific influencing factors, indicators and quantifiable variables that relate to the process chain of the LPBF method under investigation. A method is presented which, based on the correlations determined, enables to quantitatively assess the sustainability of the product during its life cycle. The application of this method is shown and verified at the example of two literature-based corporate strategies. Finally, the challenges for future developments of sustainability-oriented quantification options are discussed on the basis of the results.

KW - Corporate strategy

KW - Laser Powder Bed Fusion

KW - Sustainability assessment

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85115843022&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/978-981-16-6128-0_4

DO - 10.1007/978-981-16-6128-0_4

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 978-981-16-6127-3

SN - 978-981-16-6130-3

T3 - Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies

SP - 34

EP - 44

BT - Sustainable Design and Manufacturing

A2 - Scholz, Steffen G.

A2 - Howlett, Robert J.

A2 - Setchi, Rossi

PB - Springer Verlag

CY - Singapore

ER -