Sustainability Performance Indicators at Shop Floor Level in Large Manufacturing CompaniesShow others and affiliations
2017 (English)In: Procedia CIRP, Elsevier B.V. , 2017, p. 457-462Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
This article investigates sustainability in the performance measurement systems of Swedish manufacturing companies. It builds on a previous study that documents relatively few direct environmental indicators at shop floor level, which raises questions about possible indirect links between existing indicators and the environment that could be used to improve the environmental aspect of company's sustainability ambitions. A method for identifying and categorizing indirect links to sustainability issues was defined and used. The results suggest that at shop floor level 90% of the indicators have at least an indirect relation to one or more of the sustainability dimensions economy, environment and social, of which 26% are at least indirectly related to the environmental dimension. Despite the many indirect connections, participating companies perceive a need to improve sustainability indicators and some ideas are suggested.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier B.V. , 2017. p. 457-462
Keywords [en]
Environmental management, Performance Measurement System, Sustainability, Sustainability Performance Indicator, Benchmarking, Floors, Life cycle, Manufacture, Supply chain management, Waste disposal, Environmental aspects, Environmental indicators, Manufacturing companies, Sustainability dimensions, Sustainability indicators, Sustainability issues, Sustainability performance, Sustainable development
National Category
Other Engineering and Technologies
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-35798DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2016.11.199ISI: 000404511900079Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85020043898OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-35798DiVA, id: diva2:1110223
Conference
24th CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, CIRP LCE 2017, 8 March 2017 through 10 March 2017
Projects
Sure BPMSXPRESINNOFACTURE - innovative manufacturing development
Funder
XPRES - Initiative for excellence in production research2017-06-152017-06-152020-11-11Bibliographically approved