Abstract
The evaluation and selection among the best production practices beyond the conventional linear models is, nowadays, concerned with those holistic approaches drawn toward environmental assessment in industry. Therefore, researchers need to develop an analysis that can evaluate the performance of industrial organization in the light of their environmental viewpoint. This study implemented a pilot co-integrated scheme based on an innovative in-house Holistic Assessment Performance Index for Environment (HAPI-E) industry tool while assimilating the principles of circular economy through the Eco-innovation Development and Implementation Tool (EDIT). For the latter, nine qualitative indicators were motivated and enriched the weighting criteria of the questionnaire. The decomposition of the complexity and preferences mapping was accompanied by a multi-criteria holistic hierarchical analysis methodology in order to synthesize a single index upon a need-driven scoring. This multi-criteria decision approach in industry can quantify the material and process flows, thus enhancing the existing knowledge of manipulating internal resources. The key-criteria were based on administrative, energy, water, emissions, and waste strategies. Subsequently, the HAPI-E industry tool was modeled on the food industry, being particularly focused on pasta-based industrial production. Then, the parameters of this tool were modeled, measured, and evaluated in terms of the environmental impact awareness. The magnitude of necessary improvements was unveiled, while future research orientations were discussed. The HAPI-E industry tool can be utilized as a precautionary methodology on sustainable assessment while incorporating multifaceted and quantification advantages.
Highlights
Today, environmental awareness is considered a multifaceted issue that attracted the scientific interest worldwide
The abundant approaches to sustainability have been explored for the manufacturing industry, but despite efforts that foster carbon footprint reduction, the majority of enterprises continue to operate in the traditional linear model of production and consumption which is conceptualized under the take-make-dispose rationale
The results elaboration has been proceeded by using the “Business Performance Management Singapore—BPMSG Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) Excel template with multiple inputs” [55], and the ranking (Rk) of criteria are presented at the following Table 5, showing the Holistic Assessment Performance Index for Environment (HAPI-E) industry tool main criteria weights and scoring
Summary
Environmental awareness is considered a multifaceted issue that attracted the scientific interest worldwide Such an integrated framework upon environmental consciousness of products’ risk has been developed from Khan et al [1]. In this framework the participative roles of product designers, manufacturing engineers, environmental analysts, and risk experts were examined in designing and developing environmental awareness in association with varied product design choices [1]. In another holistic framework, the environmental perspective of designing was associated with the architectural accessibility, the interior design, and the interactive technologies [2]. The interrelationship between the entities of environment and sustainability was developed in the literature under the three interlinked framework of environmental indicators (EI) at the industrial and manufacturing contexts, sustainable production (SP) schemes, and sustainable development (SD) of environmental indicators
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