Framework for ecolabeling using discrete event simulation

  • Authors:
  • Jon Andersson;Björn Johansson;Jonatan Berglund;Anders Skoogh

  • Affiliations:
  • Chalmers University of Technology Sweden;Chalmers University of Technology Sweden;Chalmers University of Technology Sweden;Chalmers University of Technology Sweden

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2012 Symposium on Emerging Applications of M&S in Industry and Academia Symposium
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Ecolabled products have shown a competitive advantage to other products. Regulatory changes and market pressure creates an increased need for environmental impact assessments. The dominating method for environmental impact assessments - life cycle assessment (LCA) lacks support to properly analyze the dynamic aspects of business operations and production processes. This Paper proposes to use discrete event simulation to support more extensive and detailed environmental assessments on selected parts of the production process, keeping simplicity for parts of less importance and interest.