TY - GEN
T1 - Green manufacturing
T2 - 31st Annual National Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management 2010, ASEM 2010
AU - Chiu-Wei, Cheng Chu
AU - Beruvides, Mario G.
AU - Simonton, James L.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Energy cost and environmental issues are an ever increasing concern for business organizations, governmental agencies, and the public. A country may consume a great deal of energy and create more emissions than other countries, but their consumption may be proportional to their productivity when compared to others. Therefore, standardized environmental performance evaluations and their characteristics are needed and are the topic of this paper. A standardized environmental performance evaluation method makes the comparisons between countries, companies, or industries more meaningfully. These methods include efficiency indicators, total welfare indicators, resource depletion index, and ecosystem risk index. The methods are discussed based on the linkage between productivity and emissions/energy consumption, and the effects of evaluations on green manufacturing. Two evaluation methods, efficiency indicators and total welfare indicators are recommended because of their capability and reliability for evaluating environmental performance fairly and comprehensively. In addition, an application of efficiency indicators is demonstrated and recommended to conduct more accurate comparisons across green manufacturers.
AB - Energy cost and environmental issues are an ever increasing concern for business organizations, governmental agencies, and the public. A country may consume a great deal of energy and create more emissions than other countries, but their consumption may be proportional to their productivity when compared to others. Therefore, standardized environmental performance evaluations and their characteristics are needed and are the topic of this paper. A standardized environmental performance evaluation method makes the comparisons between countries, companies, or industries more meaningfully. These methods include efficiency indicators, total welfare indicators, resource depletion index, and ecosystem risk index. The methods are discussed based on the linkage between productivity and emissions/energy consumption, and the effects of evaluations on green manufacturing. Two evaluation methods, efficiency indicators and total welfare indicators are recommended because of their capability and reliability for evaluating environmental performance fairly and comprehensively. In addition, an application of efficiency indicators is demonstrated and recommended to conduct more accurate comparisons across green manufacturers.
KW - Environmental performance evaluation
KW - Green manufacturing
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84880462388
SN - 9781617824449
T3 - 31st Annual National Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management 2010, ASEM 2010
SP - 148
EP - 152
BT - 31st Annual National Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management 2010, ASEM 2010
Y2 - 13 October 2010 through 16 October 2010
ER -