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A Method for the Estimation of the Economic and Ecological Sustainability of Production Lines

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: This paper presents a method to evaluate the environmental and economical sustainability of a manufacturing line/plant along its whole life cycle. The concurrent analysis of LCA and LCC allows the process engineers to estimate the production sustainability during the design of a new production line. The method considers costs and environmental impacts of the initial deployment (i.e. initial investment and set-up), use (i.e. workload or maintenance required by each machine) and end of life (i.e. retirement) of the analyzed system. The approach has been tested in a company that manufactures extruded pipes with the aim to evaluate the relative benefits.

Source: Procedia CIRP

DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2014.06.072

Authors: Michele Germani, Marco Mandolini, Marco Marconi, Eugenia Marilungo

Institution: Marche Polytechnic University

Language: English

Topic: Life Cycle Costing Analysis

Subfield: Accounting

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Responsible consumption and production, Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2020331726

FWCI: 7.069

Cites: 16

Cited by: 23

Related to: 10