TY - GEN
T1 - Sustainability assessment of the injection molding process and the effects of material selection
AU - Roy, Utpal
AU - Li, Yunpeng
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2014 by ASME.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This paper discusses the use of the proposed Material Information Model (MIM) [1] in assessing the sustainability of the Injection Molding (IM) process, and clarifies how to use the material information (based on the characteristics of different types of polymers) to quantify the material impacts. The assessment criteria include energy/water consumption and waste (pollution) production during the process and the effects of other materials during production (like the use of additives) that may add to environmental burdens. This paper addresses issues mainly at the IM process level taking the followings into account - pollution and manufacturing cost, energy and water consumption, waste management, operation safety, hazards to the plastic manufacturing personnel and other environmental impacts - To develop requisite process metrics for measuring the sustainability performances of the IM process. The ideas discussed in the paper lead to the development of computational approaches for selecting the "best" processmaterial combination.
AB - This paper discusses the use of the proposed Material Information Model (MIM) [1] in assessing the sustainability of the Injection Molding (IM) process, and clarifies how to use the material information (based on the characteristics of different types of polymers) to quantify the material impacts. The assessment criteria include energy/water consumption and waste (pollution) production during the process and the effects of other materials during production (like the use of additives) that may add to environmental burdens. This paper addresses issues mainly at the IM process level taking the followings into account - pollution and manufacturing cost, energy and water consumption, waste management, operation safety, hazards to the plastic manufacturing personnel and other environmental impacts - To develop requisite process metrics for measuring the sustainability performances of the IM process. The ideas discussed in the paper lead to the development of computational approaches for selecting the "best" processmaterial combination.
KW - Injection molding
KW - Material selection
KW - Sustainability
KW - Sustainability assessment
KW - Sustainability drivers
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U2 - 10.1115/DETC2014-35205
DO - 10.1115/DETC2014-35205
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84961351883
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
BT - 19th Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Conference; 8th International Conference on Micro- andNanosystems
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE 2014
Y2 - 17 August 2014 through 20 August 2014
ER -