Modular Planning Concept for Green Factories

The book introduces a novel concept to address sustainability and enviromental consciousness for factories considering that factory planning nowadays is characterized by the need to involve multidisciplinary experts and integrating planning tasks depending on the specific planning case. The concept consists of a general philosophy and vision to enable a target setting according to a specific planning case and provides a tool for the selection of most important planning activities. Those planning activities are integrated to modules, whose tasks and proceedings for each planning expert involved are described to specifiy a green factory. In addition, methods and tools to support the specification are identified and embedded in an overall evaluation concept. While existing approaches focus on generality but do not address environmental aspects in a case-specific way, the Green Factory Planning is the first of its kind planning approach that enables a group of experts to plan a factory environmental-consciousness through adressing interfaces among factory elements while focusing on the most important drivers for green performance in a specific case.