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  • Industrial Engineering
  • Materials Science
  • Environmental Science

Background:

  • Natural stone production efficiency impacts economic output and environmental performance (lead times, energy consumption).
  • Structured information on production processes is vital for responsible decision-making and assessing sustainability and productivity.
  • Existing methods like value stream mapping have limitations in relating sustainability data across processes, such as lead time variability and CO2 emissions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate the application and lessons learned from deploying new manufacturing process characterization standards.
  • To address the gap in characterizing and composing manufacturing processes with relevant environmental information.
  • To support stakeholders in better assessing production resources for sustainability and productivity in the natural stone industry.

Main Methods:

  • Application of newly developed manufacturing process characterization standards by ASTM International.
  • Focus on standardizing the representation of information characterizing stone production processes.
  • Analysis of challenges in mapping and relating sustainability data (e.g., lead time, CO2 emissions) between processes.

Main Results:

  • The study highlights the potential of ASTM International's manufacturing process characterization standards to fill existing gaps.
  • Demonstrates opportunities for characterizing processes with detailed environmental information.
  • Provides practical insights and lessons learned from the deployment of these standardization efforts.

Conclusions:

  • The deployment of manufacturing process characterization standards offers a structured approach to enhance natural stone production efficiency.
  • These standards facilitate better assessment of sustainability and productivity by enabling detailed environmental data integration.
  • Standardization efforts are crucial for overcoming limitations in current process analysis methods and improving decision-making in the industry.