Motivation and Industrial Relevance

Increasing need for manufacturing companies to improve their environ-mental and economic performance (Eco-Efficiency) due to altering demands from:

• customers with an increasing demand for environmentally friendly products,
• legislation by new regulations, forcing companies to reduce their emissions,
• supply market by confronting companies with resource scarcity and increasing energy and raw material prices.

Overall Commercial Objective

Support manufacturing companies with a decision support process to identify optimal improvement measures to increase the Eco-Efficiency of their production processes.

Scientific Objectives

• Comprehensive environmental and economic key performance indicator (KPI) system.
• Holistic procedure model to improve Eco-Efficiency of production  processes.
• Simulation model combining Discrete Event Simulation (DES) and Material Flow Analysis (MFA).
• Detailed analysis of suitability of Eco-Efficiency improvement measures in production systems.