Integrated Environmental and Economic Performance Monitoring

该补助金为研究提供资金，以整合制造商的环境和经济绩效信息。 这项研究将试图帮助工业界在真实的时间里看到改善经济和环境绩效的机会。 其目标是开发新的业务/过程仪表和相应的分析方法，将量化和定性的联合环境和经济性能的制造工厂。 该项目将把人们熟悉的成本管理原则（特别是以活动为基础的成本计算）扩展到环境管理中，以便建立一个综合的经济和环境绩效衡量框架。 一个制造工厂的流程模型，使用基于活动的成本，质量和能量的方法将被开发。 制造过程传感器将用于提高性能测量的响应时间。 数据流将被集成到一个基于网络浏览器的显示器中，该显示器提供了不同详细程度的工厂性能读数。 这些工具将在实际的制造工厂中实施和测试。 这一试验平台将用于评估在进行综合经济和环境评估方面的调查结果和经验教训，如果成功，这项研究将提供新的业务和流程工具以及相应的分析方法，以量化和定性制造工厂的环境和经济综合绩效。 这些工具将通过为制造工厂与其他工厂和其他行业进行基准测试提供基础，推动具有环保意识的制造业（并最终实现可持续发展）。 公司将利用这些方法来加速为更可持续的社会做出贡献。

This grant provides funding for research to integrate environmental and economic performance information for manufacturers. This research will attempt to help industry see, in real time, opportunities for improving both economic and environmental performance. The objective is to develop new business/process instrumentation and corresponding methods of analysis that will quantify and qualify the joint environmental and economic performance of manufacturing plants. This project will extend familiar cost management principles (in particular Activity-Based Costing) into environmental management in order to create a combined economic and environmental performance measurement framework. A model of a manufacturing plant's processes using an Activity-Based Cost, Mass, and Energy approach will be developed. Manufacturing process sensors will be used to enhance response time of performance measurements. The data streams will be integrated into a web-browser based display that provides read-outs of the plant's performance at various levels of detail. The tools will be implemented and tested in an actual manufacturing plant. This test-bed will be used to assess the findings and lessons learned with respect to developing integrated economic and environmental assessments.If successful, this research will provide new business and process instrumentation and corresponding methods of analysis that will quantify and qualify the joint environmental and economic performance of manufacturing plants. These tools will advance the cause of environmentally conscious manufacturing (and ultimately, sustainable development) by providing a basis for benchmarking a manufacturing plant with other plants and other industries. Companies will use these methods to accelerate their contributions to a more sustainable society.