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Methods and Tools for Sustainable Manufacturing Networks—Results of a Case Study

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Manufacturers need be proactive, innovative and operationally efficient to succeed in the current business environment. The transition toward sustainable manufacturing requires new approaches in the design, manufacture and use of products and services. These approaches need to take into account the network of stakeholders who influence and can be influenced by the sustainability of the product in the course of its life cycle. This paper presents results of a case study that used and tested methods and tools developed for creating a sustainable business model for a manufacturing company. The main research questions addressed here are: how to develop a sustainable business model; and how to explicitly illustrate to potential customers the life cycle costs of different solutions.

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    Identified and developed in the Sustain Value project http://www.sustainvalue.eu/publications/D2_6_Final.pdf.

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Acknowledgments

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7, 2007–2013) under grant agreement 262931. The authors wish to acknowledge the European Commission for their support and the case company for their contribution to the study.

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  1. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, P.O. Box 1300, 33101, Tampere, Finland

    Teuvo Uusitalo, Helena Kortelainen & Susanna Kunttu

  2. University of Cambridge, Institute for Manufacturing, 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0FS, UK

    Padmakshi Rana & Steve Evans

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  3. Asset Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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Uusitalo, T., Kortelainen, H., Rana, P., Kunttu, S., Evans, S. (2015). Methods and Tools for Sustainable Manufacturing Networks—Results of a Case Study. In: Amadi-Echendu, J., Hoohlo, C., Mathew, J. (eds) 9th WCEAM Research Papers. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15536-4_7

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