Organisational sustainability readiness: A model and assessment tool for manufacturing companies

Barletta, Ilaria Giovanna; Hoffenson, Steven; Johansson, Björn

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125404

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“…Furthermore, the sustainability strategies that most companies commit to follow nowadays [99][100][101][102] also challenge the industry to analyze the viability of a product due to its negative contribution toward the global nature and living beings' well-being. This analysis aimed to help companies decide which strategy will provide both profit and sustainability.…”

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Quantifying the Impact of Production Globalization through Application of the Life Cycle Inventory Methodology and Its Influence on Decision Making in Industry

Prado-Galiñanes

Domingo

2021

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Industries are nowadays not only expected to produce goods and provide services, but also to do this sustainably. What qualifies a company as sustainable implies that its activities must be defined according to the social and ecological responsibilities that are meant to protect the society and the environment in which they operate. From now on, it will be necessary to consider and measure the impact of industrial activities on the environment, and to do so, one key parameter is the carbon footprint. This paper demonstrates the utility of the LCI as a tool for immediate application in industries. Its application shall facilitate decision making in industries while choosing amongst different scenarios to industrialize a certain product with the lowest environmental impact possible. To achieve this, the carbon footprint of a given product was calculated by applying the LCI method to several scenarios that differed from each other only in the supply-chain model. As a result of this LCI calculation, the impact of the globalization of a good’s production was quantified not only financially, but also environmentally. Finally, it was concluded that the LCI/LCA methodology can be considered as a fundamental factor in the new decision-making strategy that sustainable companies must implement while deciding on the business and industrial plan for their new products and services.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quantifying the Impact of Production Globalization through Application of the Life Cycle Inventory Methodology and Its Influence on Decision Making in Industry

Prado-Galiñanes

Domingo

2021

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“…The potential economic benefits were quantified. Barletta et al [49] valued SM for its contribution to environmental sustainability, and they presented the assessment model and tools to evaluate sustainability readiness of smart manufacturing systems. Ante et al [50] proposed a hierarchical structure of key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the performance of smart manufacturing systems; the performances were evaluated at strategic, tactical, and operational levels, and the dependences of system elements were taken into consideration in quantifying KPIs.…”

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Generic Design Methodology for Smart Manufacturing Systems from a Practical Perspective. Part II—Systematic Designs of Smart Manufacturing Systems

Zhang

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In a traditional system paradigm, an enterprise reference model provides the guide for practitioners to select manufacturing elements, configure elements into a manufacturing system, and model system options for evaluation and comparison of system solutions against given performance metrics. However, a smart manufacturing system aims to reconfigure different systems in achieving high-level smartness in its system lifecycle; moreover, each smart system is customized in terms of the constraints of manufacturing resources and the prioritized performance metrics to achieve system smartness. Few works were found on the development of systematic methodologies for the design of smart manufacturing systems. The novel contributions of the presented work are at two aspects: (1) unified definitions of digital functional elements and manufacturing systems have been proposed; they are generalized to have all digitized characteristics and they are customizable to any manufacturing system with specified manufacturing resources and goals of smartness and (2) a systematic design methodology has been proposed; it can serve as the guide for designs of smart manufacturing systems in specified applications. The presented work consists of two separated parts. In the first part of paper, a simplified definition of smart manufacturing (SM) is proposed to unify the diversified expectations and a newly developed concept digital triad (DT-II) is adopted to define a generic reference model to represent essential features of smart manufacturing systems. In the second part of the paper, the axiomatic design theory (ADT) is adopted and expanded as the generic design methodology for design, analysis, and assessment of smart manufacturing systems. Three case studies are reviewed to illustrate the applications of the proposed methodology, and the future research directions towards smart manufacturing are discussed as a summary in the second part.

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“…The authors of A. H. Rashed and A. Shah, T. Gehringer, I. Barletta and M. Despeisse, S. Hoffenson and B. Johansson believe that entrepreneurship is a key stakeholder in accelerating the implementation of sustainable development goals [4,6,7].…”

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“…D. Gligor, C. N. Jurcut believe that the involvement of entrepreneurs in sustainable development associations affects their competitiveness [11]. Some experts felt that there was a need to develop the region's competitiveness through sustainable development [12][13][14][15][16][17] that the level of enterprise readiness for sustainable development should be determined [7,18]. R. Baumgarther and D. Ebner have identified four stages of sustainability that can occur in enterprises [19].…”

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The role of entrepreneur cooperation in the implementation of the sustainable development goals

2021

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The authors proposed a method for evaluating the level of cooperation among associations for sustainable development and their participants. The indicators of the structure, of the scale and the diversification of cooperation have been selected by expert method. As a result, the method classifies participants, including entrepreneurs, by level of cooperation. Researchers have proposed classes of participants in cooperation for sustainable development. This classification is based on the grouping methods and calculation of the interval. If the participant had higher class, this means the participant had the closer links in the cooperation for sustainable development, and vice versa. This assessment allows us to determine the desire for cooperation of each participant (entrepreneur, NGO, investor, university, government). The method has been tested on the basis of 12 associations for sustainable development, including 951 participants for 2021. Between 1964 and 2020, the importance of large entrepreneurs increased in associations for sustainable development, especially the chemical entrepreneurs. The growth rate and the share of other participants are insignificant compared to large entrepreneurs in the associations. Small and medium-sized entrepreneurs have barriers to entry into associations. It is necessary to form a partnership of all participants for the sustainable development at the same time.

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Organisational sustainability readiness: A model and assessment tool for manufacturing companies

Cited by 37 publications

References 52 publications

Quantifying the Impact of Production Globalization through Application of the Life Cycle Inventory Methodology and Its Influence on Decision Making in Industry

Quantifying the Impact of Production Globalization through Application of the Life Cycle Inventory Methodology and Its Influence on Decision Making in Industry

Generic Design Methodology for Smart Manufacturing Systems from a Practical Perspective. Part II—Systematic Designs of Smart Manufacturing Systems

The role of entrepreneur cooperation in the implementation of the sustainable development goals

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