Multi-Layer Stream Mapping: Application to an Injection Moulding Production System

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2017

Authors

M. N. Gomes (Author) Other; António J. Baptista (Author) Other; Alcibiades P. Guedes (Author) FEUP; Inês Ribeiro (Author) Other; E. J. Lourenço (Author) Other; Paulo Peças (Author) Other

Book

Title: Sustainable Design and Manufacturing 2017 : Selected papers on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing

Pages: 193-202

ISBN: 978-3-319-57077-8

Publisher: Springer

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology

Other information

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-57078-5_19

Abstract (EN): The Multi-Layer Stream Mapping (MSM) methodology addresses current challenges regarding the applicability of Lean Thinking concepts in the domain of sustainability assessment tools. Therefore, MSM aims to assess the overall performance of a production system, while evaluating the productivity and efficiency of resource utilization as well as evaluate the costs related to missuses and inefficiencies and other process and domains variables. This paper highlights the benefits arising from the application of the MSM methodology in a real industrial case regarding the injection moulding process, namely fostering the quantification of the efficiency of different resources streams, for its improvement, for the several production processes involved. So, it is explained how MSM can contribute for a more sustainable production system with a continuously increasing productivity.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 10