Artefacts and guidelines for designing sustainable manufacturing systems

Abstract

The following key questions are the main focus of this paper: Which are the needs to integrate sustainability and efficiency performances in Intelligent Manufacturing System design? And: How can these needs be approached using concepts from Intelligent Manufacturing System engineering methods in the context of design of sustainable manufacturing systems? This paper answers these questions with: “green” artefacts and guidelines for helping to maximize production efficiency and balance environmental constraints already in the system design phase. In this way the engineers designing the manufacturing system can have guidelines for decision support and tools for improving energy efficiency, CO2 emissions and other environmental impacts integrated into a software engineering method for intelligent manufacturing development.