The Assessment of Industrial Manufacturing Systems Towards Advanced Operations by Means of Integrated Modeling Approach

Abstract

The industrial sector driven by profitability and competitiveness faces with daunting challenges of energy demand, environmental constraints and credible high-quality performance in its operations. The modern methods of energy management, environmental management and quality management focus on pathways to more efficient, cost-effective and competitive operation within an integrated framework of the standards. Many countries already adopted the national standards and frameworks have proven to have a success report in increased awareness. The common elements of the standards provide the methodology to be integrated systematically. Hence, in this work a systematic modeling approach is proposed that will serve as a guidance to fulfill the required key performance indicators of energy, environmental and quality aspects in an industrial manufacturing system under the guidance of the international standards.

Moreover, the industrial and technological developments devoted to the practice of advanced industrial and manufacturing processes are of essence as a part of the strategy to be considered in the proposed systematic modeling approach. In this respect, the measurement technology meets the essential information and know-how to provide solutions to the operations of industrial manufacturing industry development. Therefore, contribution of the metrology is clarified and related within the proposed systematic model together with the international standards defining measurable and correlated parameters that provide furthermore the prospects of advanced manufacturing systems.