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Siemens understands sustainability in the holistic context of social responsibility, environment, and economy. In terms of sustainable manufacturing we present concepts that improve products and production at all levels of sustainability. The various company energy efficiency programs focus on key areas of production. It begins with energy aware product development processes supported by the EcoCare Matrix methodology as part of our PLM process. The energy optimization programs for the manufacturing and supply chain processes are implemented by four phases, the Energy Health Check, the analysis, the concept, and the implementation steps. However, sustainable manufacturing is more than just resources flow and consumption optimizations. We discuss an S.M.A.R.T. solution for India exchanging conventional light bulbs by long-life compact fluorescent lamps. Finally, we lead to the road of an integrated consideration of the interactions of resources supply and demand as well as product and production value adding processes to achieve next level sustainability solutions.
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Rohrmus, D. et al. (2011). Sustainable Manufacturing at Siemens AG. In: Seliger, G., Khraisheh, M., Jawahir, I. (eds) Advances in Sustainable Manufacturing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20183-7_12
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