Environmental Performance Measurement for Green Manufacturing Program Based on BP Neural Network

Abstract

To make the environmental performance measuring system a useful inspective and supervisory tool during the life cycle of a Green Manufacturing (GM) program, a measure system is presented. It includes three primary indexes corresponding to the GM program life cycle, which are fundamental construction level, application level and continuous improving level. And 19 secondary measures are subdivided, too. After that, the values of the measures are determined involving qualitative and quantitative index. And then Back Propagation Neural Network (BPNN) is applied to evaluate the environmental performance of GM programs in enterprise, in which 10 samples are used to train the measuring model with Matlab 7.0, and the data are selected from the Internet and digital library. The environmental performance evaluation of a machine tool company in Chongqing shows the effectiveness and validity of the model, and this method can be applied in industrial enterprises while implementing GM.

A dual factor decision making model in green manufacturing

“…Green manufacturing (GM) is a manufacturing strategy that is growing in importance. Its goal is to minimize the environmental impact and maximize the utilization of resources throughout a product's entire lifecycle, including design, production, packaging, use, and disposal, while simultaneously emphasizing sustained economic growth (Wang and Li, 2010). Green manufacturing is therefore concerned with developing methods for manufacturing products from the initial conceptual design to the end-of-life (EOL) disposal of the product.…”

“…Manufacturing organizations around the world are increasingly recognizing the need to address the environmental impacts of their products (Wang and Li, 2010). These environmental impacts must be addressed without compromising the economic viability of the organization.…”

“…To help structure their efforts to reduce the environmental impacts of their products, many organization have adopted -green manufacturing‖ (GM) strategies (Wang and Li, 2010). There are many definitions of GM in the literature.…”

A dual factor decision making model in green manufacturing

“…Green manufacturing (GM) is a manufacturing strategy that is growing in importance. Its goal is to minimize the environmental impact and maximize the utilization of resources throughout a product's entire lifecycle, including design, production, packaging, use, and disposal, while simultaneously emphasizing sustained economic growth (Wang and Li, 2010). Green manufacturing is therefore concerned with developing methods for manufacturing products from the initial conceptual design to the end-of-life (EOL) disposal of the product.…”

“…Manufacturing organizations around the world are increasingly recognizing the need to address the environmental impacts of their products (Wang and Li, 2010). These environmental impacts must be addressed without compromising the economic viability of the organization.…”