Abstract
Today sustainability-related decision making plays a critical role in manufacturing. However, due to the lack of a formal representation of the information regarding material properties and manufacturing processes, the adoption and use of rules related to sustainability evaluation in the design phase are still heavily experienced-based. Thus, a new generation of Computer Aided Design (CAD) system is needed for designers to achieve intelligent decision making about product sustainability evaluation. The first step towards such a goal is to develop an "Information Model" to integrate all the relevant information. This paper proposes a three-layered framework for Process-oriented Information Model development and utilization, which can evaluate energy consumption for different processes under a generalized information core. The sustainability analysis of a gear design has been presented here to demonstrate the implementation of the proposed framework.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 272-280 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Transactions of the North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SME |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue number | January |
| State | Published - 2014 |
| Event | 42nd North American Manufacturing Research Conference 2014, NAMRC 2014 - Detroit, United States Duration: Jun 9 2014 → Jun 13 2014 |
Keywords
- Process-oriented information model
- Sustainability-related decision making
- Sustainable manufacturing
- System implementation
- Three-layered architecture
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Mechanical Engineering
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering