Management of Technological Innovation: Hierarchical Decision-Making in Life-Cycle Processing and Planning for Computer and Electronic Products

提案#9421194加州大学伯克利分校最近更严格的政府立法和日益增长的“绿色”产品功能的消费主义的趋势，促使制造商考虑采取积极主动的方法，将其产品和工艺对环境的影响降至最低。计算机和电子制造商一直在通过溶剂替代和包装材料的选择来引领这一范式转变。然而，这些努力在很大程度上是通过不协调的地方努力进行的，只有有限的转变为企业范围的环境战略。该提案对计算机和电子产品制造的分层决策进行了多学科的综合分析。这一分析中的一个关键问题是制定衡量环境绩效的过程、产品规划和公司层面的衡量标准。在工艺层面，将开发分析模型，以评估金属成型、注塑、板组装、底盘组装、拆卸和重新研磨操作的废水、能源利用、生产率和质量之间的权衡。可以结合工艺模型和度量来评估替代制造/回收路径，以及材料选择和几何特征的变化。最后，使用工程数据，将探索环境绩效的总体组织度量的发展。拟议的研究还将审查垂直一体化的影响，以及在分散制造和回收方面对供应商环境绩效的影响。分析模型将通过对我们的工业合作伙伴太阳微系统公司和休斯飞机公司的生产现场以及他们的制造和回收供应商的现场研究来补充。将通过对工业产品的现场案例研究和在工程学院、哈斯工商管理学院和公共卫生学院编写课程材料来部署研究。

Proposal# 9421194 University of California at Berkeley The recent trend of more stringent government legislation and growing consumerism for "green" product features have driven manufactures to consider a proactive approach towards minimizing the environmental impact of their products and processes. Computer and electronics manufactures have been leading this paradigm shift through efforts in solvent substitution and selections of packaging materials. However, these efforts have occurred largely through uncoordinated local efforts, with only limited transformation into corporate wide environmental strategies. This proposal presents an multi-disciplinary, integrated analysis of hierarchical decision-making for the manufacture of computer and electronics products. A key issue in this analysis is the development of process, product planning and firm level metrics for measuring environmental performance. At the process level, analytical models will be developed to evaluate trade-off between effluents, energy utilization, production rate and quality for metal forming, interjection molding, board assembly, chassis assembly, disassembly and regrind operations. The process models and metrics can be combined to evaluate alternative manufacturing / recycling paths, as well as changes in material selection and geometric features. Finally, using engineering data, the development of overall organizational metrics for environmental performance will be explored. The proposed research will also examine the impact of vertical integration and influence on vendor environmental performance in decentralized manufacturing and recycling. The analytical modeling will be complemented by field studies at production sites of our industrial partners, Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hughes Aircraft Company, as well as sites of their manufacturing and recycling vendors. Deployment of research will occur through both on-site case studies of industrial products and creation of curriculum material in the College of Engi neering, Haas School of Business Administration and the School of Public Health.