Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing: Utility Tradeoffs and Statistical Analysis for Pollution Prevention

小行星9528629 该补助金提供资金，为预防污染的设计决策制定一个强大的理论基础。 该研究将开发一种严格的新方法，用于在产品设计，制造，使用和处理的整个范围内集成定量决策分析。 具体而言，将开发一种方法，用于结合统计制造过程控制与生命周期分析和并行多目标设计优化。 污染及其清除成本将被视为产品缺陷。 该项目将大大扩展以前的工作，开发可用于任何行业的设计工具。 将规定制造工艺及其产生的废物流的分类程序。 如果成功，美国制造商将能够更好地将国际市场独特的、针对具体地点的考虑纳入其设计分析，以确定最佳的污染预防战略。 我们的目标不是试图确定“环境正确”的替代品。 相反，它是开发一种数学上严格的方法来模拟污染，成本和质量之间的不确定性权衡。 将确定最佳策略组合，包括产品设计规范、材料、制造工艺设计和制造工艺控制设置。 制造商将能够预测这些事件并将其整合到设计决策过程中，而不是产生污染，等待监管机构做出回应，然后付出代价。 这样做的双重好处是，他们的产品将在市场上拥有战略优势，同时也减少了污染。

9528629 Thurston This grant provides funding to develop a robust theoretical foundation for design decisionmaking for pollution prevention. The research will develop a rigorous new method for integrating quantitative decision analysis over the entire range of product design, manufacture, use and disposal. Specifically, a methodology for combining statistical manufacturing process control with lifecycle analysis and concurrent multiobjective design optimization will be developed. Pollution and its removal cost will be treated as product defects. This project will significantly expand on previous work to develop design tools that can be used by any industry. Procedures for classes of manufacturing processes and their resultant waste streams will be specified. If successful, United States manufacturers will be better able to integrate the unique, site-specific considerations of the international marketplace into their design analysis to identify optimal pollution prevention strategies. The goal is not to attempt to identify the "environmentally correct" alternative. Instead, it is to develop a mathematically rigorous method for modeling tradeoffs under uncertainty between pollution, cost and quality. The best combination of strategies will be identified, including specification of the product design, materials, manufacturing process design and manufacturing process control settings. Instead of generating pollution, waiting for the regulators to respond, then paying the price, manufacturers will be able to anticipate these events and integrate them into the design decision-making process. The twin benefits are that their products will then possess a strategic advantage in the marketplace, and also generate less pollution.