Feasibility study on sustainable manufacturing system

Author

Kumazawa, Toshimitsu ; Kobayashi, Hideki

Author_Institution

Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp., Kawasaki, Japan

fYear

2003

fDate

8-11 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

517

Lastpage

520

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the business model of vacuum cleaner, taking closed material flow cycle into account. From the viewpoints of the material and cash flow, the feasibility of the sustainable global production system is examined. The simulation system is implemented based on a discrete simulation software, Visual SLAM. In this system, some manufacturing scenarios are evaluated by using actual data, including data on manufacturing in China. As a result, the feasibility of some scenarios is shown.

Keywords

discrete event simulation; electrical products industry; electronic products; environmental factors; manufacturing data processing; manufacturing systems; production engineering computing; recycling; sustainable development; China; Visual SLAM; business model; cash flow; closed material flow cycle; discrete simulation software; sustainable global production system; sustainable manufacturing system; vacuum cleaner; Discrete event simulation; Environmental factors; Manufacturing automation software; Manufacturing data processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2003. EcoDesign '03. 2003 3rd International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tokyo, Japan

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8590-x

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECODIM.2003.1322727

Filename

1322727