Research Study: Inter-Relationship of Operational Decisions and Environmental Impacts

这项研究的目标是开始确定生产企业运营决策的环境影响，并将这些影响在时间和物理尺度上与亚细胞级别的决策和供应链级别的决策联系起来。这将解决在环境无害设计和制造中研究的系统经常被遗漏的操作特征。在某些情况下，造成这种差距的原因是，对所谓的EBDM“系统”的定义过于宽泛或过于狭隘，从而使假设过于简单化。这项研究的长期目标是确定整合制造企业各层级之间的运营决策对环境影响的机制。这项调查是第一步，以便更好地了解和确定可能对环境产生积极和不利影响的运营层面的因素。更广泛的影响包括通过地方和区域一级的EBDM活动使堪萨斯州的第一个绿色制造努力成为可能。一旦对环境绩效和运营特征有了更好的初步了解，对制造业供应链的关注就可以广泛应用于这一区域范围之外。

The goal of this research study is to begin to identify environmental impacts of operational decisions of the production enterprise and relate those impacts across time and physical scales to decisions made at the sub-cellular level and decisions made at the supply chain level. This will address the often-missed operational characteristics of the system under study in Environmentally Benign Design and Manufacturing. The gap has been cause in some cases due to over simplification of assumptions stemming from too broad or too narrow definitions of what is termed the EBDM "system". The long term goal of the research is to determine the mechanism for integrating the environmental impacts of operational decisions made across and between the levels of the manufacturing enterprise. This investigation takes the first step in order to lead to a better understanding, and identification of, the operational level factors that have potential for positive and adverse environmental impact. The broader impacts include enabling the first green manufacturing effort in Kansas through EBDM activities at the local and regional level. The focus on the manufacturing supply chain can be broadly applied beyond this regional scope, once the preliminary understanding of the environmental performance and operational characteristics are better understood.