Material efficiency in companies of the manufacturing industry : classification of measures
- Improving material efficiency in the manufacturing industry is a sustainability imperative for companies due to economic and environmental advantages such as the reduction of material costs and resource use. Innovative solutions in terms of material efficiency measures are diverse and widespread. As a systematic assessment of efficiency approaches and their effects are likely to support dissemination and deployment, this paper aims to develop an approach that helps to classify material efficiency measures. The classification approach presents different dimensions and properties of material efficiency measures based on a literature analysis regarding existing classification approaches as well as on work that has been conducted for theImproving material efficiency in the manufacturing industry is a sustainability imperative for companies due to economic and environmental advantages such as the reduction of material costs and resource use. Innovative solutions in terms of material efficiency measures are diverse and widespread. As a systematic assessment of efficiency approaches and their effects are likely to support dissemination and deployment, this paper aims to develop an approach that helps to classify material efficiency measures. The classification approach presents different dimensions and properties of material efficiency measures based on a literature analysis regarding existing classification approaches as well as on work that has been conducted for the Eco-Innovation Observatory. The classification has been designed as basis for an empirical impact assessment of material efficiency measures based on a data sample that stems from the German Material Efficiency Agency.…
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| Document Type: | Conference Object |
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| Author: | Susanne Fischer |
| Publisher: | Univ.-Verl. der TU Berlin |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Source Title (English): | Innovative solutions : proceedings |
| First Page: | 102 |
| Last Page: | 107 |
| External link: | https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:83-opus4-70762 |
| Conference Name: | 11th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing, Berlin, Germany, 23rd - 25th September, 2013 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 670 Industrielle und handwerkliche Fertigung |
| Licence: |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung |
