A Review of Simulation Based Life Cycle Assessment in Manufacturing Industry

• The manufacturing industry has a duty to minimize their environmental impact and more and more legislations include environmental impact evaluations from a life cycle perspective to avoid burden shift. Current manufacturing industry increase their use of computer-based simulations for optimizing production processes. In recent years, a number of studies have been published, combining simulations with life cycle assessments (LCA), to evaluate and minimize the environmental impact of production activities, as part of improving the production processes. Still, current knowledge concerning simulations for LCA is rather scattered. Therefore, this paper reviews relevant literature covering simulation based LCA for production development. The results of the review and cross comparison of papers are structured following the 6 categories in line with the ISO standard definition of LCA (goal formulation, scope definition, environmental impact assessment, data quality, level of modelling details, and model validation) and report the strengths and constraints of the reviewed studies. 

Ämnesord

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Maskinteknik -- Produktionsteknik, arbetsvetenskap och ergonomi (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Mechanical Engineering -- Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics (hsv//eng)

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Samhällsbyggnadsteknik -- Miljöanalys och bygginformationsteknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Civil Engineering -- Environmental Analysis and Construction Information Technology (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

life cycle assessment

production process

simulation

Production and Automation Engineering

Produktion och automatiseringsteknik

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