Title :
Feasibility study on sustainable manufacturing system
Author :
Kumazawa, Toshimitsu ; Kobayashi, Hideki
Author_Institution :
Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp., Kawasaki, Japan
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ECODIM.2003.1322727
