ABSTRACT
Summary
Each year, the day at which humans have used all of the planet’s renewable resources for that year moves earlier; in 2019, it was estimated this occurred on July 29. Increased societal understanding of these planetary limits has made sustainability an increased concern for manufacturers. Decision makers seeking to implement sustainable manufacturing must balance the social, economic, and environmental outcomes that are associated with various manufacturing alternatives and processes. In highly competitive, consumer-oriented industries like the automotive industry, this holds especially true.
This chapter presents a quantitative framework for sustainable manufacturing and applies it to the automotive industry. The Multi-Attribute Value Theory (MAVT) methodology is used to compare the optimal car manufacturing material.
