Additive manufacturing from the sustainability perspective: Proposal for a self-assessment tool
2019 (English)In: Procedia CIRP: Volume 81, Elsevier, 2019, p. 482-487Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Sustainable development
Sustainable Development
Abstract [en]
Emergent technologies and additive manufacturing have a significant role in shaping the future of manufacturing, enabling companies to produce complex products and parts in a more efficient and sustainable way. However, companies are struggling to identify and achieve the full potential of the technology from a sustainability perspective. The purpose of this paper is to develop a checklist to assess the sustainability performance of additive manufacturing adoption and exploitation, based on secondary data from the academic literature, technical reports, and company cases. Results rely on the identification of critical sustainability aspects for additive manufacturing and key performance indicators.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2019. p. 482-487
Series
Procedia CIRP, ISSN 2212-8271 ; 81
Keywords [en]
Additive manufacturing, Checklist, Performance indicators, SDGs, Sustainable operations, 3D printers, Additives, Benchmarking, Emergent technologies, Key performance indicators, Self-assessment tools, Sustainability performance, Sustainable development
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-50399DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2019.03.123Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85068483174OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-50399DiVA, id: diva2:1461431
Conference
52nd CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems (CMS), Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 12-14, 2019
2020-08-262020-08-262020-08-26Bibliographically approved