Ahmad Shamraiz, Wong Kuan Yew, Butt Shahid Ikramullah
School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, 44000, Pakistan.
Institute of Management, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Piazza Martiri della Liberta, 33, 56127, Pisa, Italy.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2023 Mar;30(15):43068-43095. doi: 10.1007/s11356-022-22172-z. Epub 2022 Jul 29.
Due to significant requirement of energy, water, material, and other resources, the manufacturing industries significantly impact environmental, economic, and social dimensions of sustainability (triple bottom-line). In response, today's research is focused on finding solution towards sustainable manufacturing. In this regard, sustainability assessment is an essential strategy. In the past, a variety of tools was developed to evaluate the environmental dimension. Because of this fact, previous review studies were grounded mostly on tools for green manufacturing. Unlike previous review articles, this study was aimed to review and analyze the emerging sustainability assessment methodologies (published from 2010 to 2020) for manufacturing while considering the triple bottom-line concept of sustainability. In this way, the paper presents a decade review on this topic, starting from 2010 as the guidelines for the social dimension became available in 2009. This paper has analyzed various methods and explored recent progress patterns. First, this study critically reviewed the methods and then analyzed their different integrating tools, sustainability dimensions, nature of indicators, difficulty levels, assessment boundaries, etc. The review showed that life cycle assessment and analytic hierarchy process-based approaches were most commonly used as integrating tools. Comparatively, still, environmental dimension was more commonly considered than economic and social dimensions by most of the reviewed methods. From indicators' viewpoint, most of the studied tools were based on limited number of indicators, having no relative weights and validation from the experts. To overcome these challenges, future research directions were outlined to make these methods more inclusive and reliable. Along with putting more focus on economic and social dimensions, there is a need to employ weighted, validated, and applicable indicators in sustainability assessment methods for manufacturing.
由于对能源、水、材料和其他资源的巨大需求，制造业对可持续发展的环境、经济和社会层面（三重底线）产生了重大影响。作为回应，当今的研究重点是寻找可持续制造的解决方案。在这方面，可持续性评估是一项至关重要的策略。过去，人们开发了各种工具来评估环境层面。因此，以往的综述研究大多基于绿色制造工具。与以往的综述文章不同，本研究旨在回顾和分析2010年至2020年期间出现的制造业可持续性评估方法，同时考虑可持续性的三重底线概念。通过这种方式，本文对该主题进行了十年回顾，从2010年开始，因为社会层面的指导方针于2009年出台。本文分析了各种方法并探讨了近期的进展模式。首先，本研究对这些方法进行了批判性回顾，然后分析了它们不同的整合工具、可持续性维度、指标性质、难度级别、评估边界等。综述表明，生命周期评估和基于层次分析法的方法最常被用作整合工具。相比之下，大多数综述方法仍然更常考虑环境层面而非经济和社会层面。从指标的角度来看，大多数研究工具基于数量有限的指标，没有相对权重且未经专家验证。为了克服这些挑战，概述了未来的研究方向，以使这些方法更具包容性和可靠性。除了更加关注经济和社会层面外，还需要在制造业的可持续性评估方法中采用加权、经过验证且适用的指标。
