A New Analysis and Investigation of Sustainable Manufacturing through a Perspective Approach

Analysis of the sustainability for the whole manufacturing does not exist until now, investigating it is still highly appreciated especially distinguish between machine design, manufacturing processes and manufacturing systems. A framework to analyze the completely manufacturing streams: machine design stream; manufacturing processes stream; and manufacturing systems streams in terms of sustainability enablers, will be illustrated and discussed to identify which enablers are significant in each manufacturing stream and which manufacturing stream is more significant toward sustainability than others are. The main goal of this paper is to explain how to classify sustainability in all streams of manufacturing as a whole through identifying the sustainability enablers and their items in each stream to give a full picture of sustainable manufacturing considering the triple bottom line of sustainability (TBL). This analysis and investigation show that it is a very urgent to identify the sustainable enablers into manufacturing as a whole not from individual side of view.