Simulation of Manufacturing Enterprises for Sustainability

Summary:

Simulation technology has been a significant tool for improving manufacturing operations in the past; but its focus has been on lowering costs, improving productivity and quality, and reducing time to market for new products.  In the future, it could similarly help us to achieve green, environmentally friendly or sustainable manufacturing. Changes will need to occur if simulation is to be applied successfully to sustainability. Manufacturers will need to focus on issues that they have not been concerned with in the past. New technologies and standards will be needed to model sustainable manufacturing systems.  This project focuses on the application of systems dynamics modeling, a simulation technology that has not been traditionally used by manufacturing, to sustainable manufacturing.

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