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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 4478 |
| Journal | Sustainability |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Publication status | Published - 2 Mar 2023 |
Abstract
Modern factory planning requires a holistic perspective taking economic as well as environmental sustainability over the entire factory life cycle into account. As a complex socio-technical system, the factory life cycle consists of multiple life cycles of the inherent factory elements. A holistic understanding of the individual life cycles and their interdependencies is missing for both planning and operation of a factory. Therefore, the goal is to develop a system understanding about life cycle-oriented factory planning and to analyze the contribution of relevant factory elements to the sustainability of a factory. As a result, a knowledge base for life cycle costing and assessment of the entire factory is established using an impact path model. The qualitative model supports factory planners in deriving planning measures for the sustainable design of a factory and in determining data requirements for the quantitative evaluation of the economic and environmental sustainability of a factory. It shows that the production and logistics concepts essentially define the sustainability potential during planning, while the resulting life cycle behavior of the process facilities and workers is responsible for the majority of costs and environmental impacts of a factory. Factory planners must therefore become aware of the implications of planning decisions on factory operation when developing concepts in the future.
Keywords
- factory elements, factory environment, factory life cycle, factory planning, life cycle assessment, life cycle costing
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science(all)
- Computer Science (miscellaneous)
- Environmental Science(all)
- Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
- Social Sciences(all)
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Energy(all)
- Energy Engineering and Power Technology
- Computer Science(all)
- Hardware and Architecture
- Environmental Science(all)
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
- Engineering(all)
- Building and Construction
- Computer Science(all)
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Energy(all)
- Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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In: Sustainability, Vol. 15, No. 5, 4478, 02.03.2023.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards a Holistic Life Cycle Costing and Assessment of Factories
T2 - Qualitative Modeling of Interdependencies in Factory Systems
AU - Hingst, Lennart
AU - Dér, Antal
AU - Herrmann, Christoph
AU - Nyhuis, Peter
N1 - This research was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), grant number 412409961.
PY - 2023/3/2
Y1 - 2023/3/2
N2 - Modern factory planning requires a holistic perspective taking economic as well as environmental sustainability over the entire factory life cycle into account. As a complex socio-technical system, the factory life cycle consists of multiple life cycles of the inherent factory elements. A holistic understanding of the individual life cycles and their interdependencies is missing for both planning and operation of a factory. Therefore, the goal is to develop a system understanding about life cycle-oriented factory planning and to analyze the contribution of relevant factory elements to the sustainability of a factory. As a result, a knowledge base for life cycle costing and assessment of the entire factory is established using an impact path model. The qualitative model supports factory planners in deriving planning measures for the sustainable design of a factory and in determining data requirements for the quantitative evaluation of the economic and environmental sustainability of a factory. It shows that the production and logistics concepts essentially define the sustainability potential during planning, while the resulting life cycle behavior of the process facilities and workers is responsible for the majority of costs and environmental impacts of a factory. Factory planners must therefore become aware of the implications of planning decisions on factory operation when developing concepts in the future.
AB - Modern factory planning requires a holistic perspective taking economic as well as environmental sustainability over the entire factory life cycle into account. As a complex socio-technical system, the factory life cycle consists of multiple life cycles of the inherent factory elements. A holistic understanding of the individual life cycles and their interdependencies is missing for both planning and operation of a factory. Therefore, the goal is to develop a system understanding about life cycle-oriented factory planning and to analyze the contribution of relevant factory elements to the sustainability of a factory. As a result, a knowledge base for life cycle costing and assessment of the entire factory is established using an impact path model. The qualitative model supports factory planners in deriving planning measures for the sustainable design of a factory and in determining data requirements for the quantitative evaluation of the economic and environmental sustainability of a factory. It shows that the production and logistics concepts essentially define the sustainability potential during planning, while the resulting life cycle behavior of the process facilities and workers is responsible for the majority of costs and environmental impacts of a factory. Factory planners must therefore become aware of the implications of planning decisions on factory operation when developing concepts in the future.
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