The Design of Sustainable City Multi-Floor Manufacturing Processes Under Uncertainty in Supply Chains

Tygran Dzhuguryan,Bogusz Wiśnicki,Zofia Jóźwiak,Agnieszka Deja

doi:10.3390/su12229439

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Journal: Sustainability	Publication Date: Nov 13, 2020
Citations: 14	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: Maritime University of Szczecin

Abstract

The application of multi-floor manufacturing (MFM) in huge cities is related to the rational use of urban areas and the solution to traffic problems. The operation of the city MFM clusters depends on the efficiency of production and transport management considering technical, economic, environmental, and other factors. The primary goal of this paper was to identify and analyze the drivers of sustainable supply chains (SSCs) that influence or encourage the design of sustainable processes in city MFM clusters under uncertainty in supply chains. This paper presents an SSC performance model for city MFM clusters under uncertainty. The proposed model is universal and is based on material flow analysis (MFA) methodology. The presented analysis helps to determine the conditions for rhythmic deliveries with the use of the multi-IRTs. The coefficients of rhythmic deliveries for multiple intelligent reconfigurable trolleys (IRTs) and the capacity loss of freight elevators allow us to periodically assess the sustainability processes in city MFM clusters related to the flow materials. These assessments are the basis for the decision-making and planning of SSCs.

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The acceleration of the urbanization of an agglomeration under the conditions of a modern information society, an increase in the share of high-rise buildings in the urban environment, intensive urban traffic, the use of advanced technologies, and the high demand for consumer goods all contribute to the further improvement of multi-floor factories [1,2,3,4,5,6,7] and the development of city multi-floor manufacturing (MFM) [5,6]
The conceptual principles of the sustainable supply chains (SSCs) design are based on the selection and analysis of the critical aspects that have the biggest impact on the sustainable processes of city MFM clusters under uncertainty in supply chains
This study presented the concept of sustainable process design in city MFM clusters under uncertainty in supply chains

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The acceleration of the urbanization of an agglomeration under the conditions of a modern information society, an increase in the share of high-rise buildings in the urban environment, intensive urban traffic, the use of advanced technologies, and the high demand for consumer goods all contribute to the further improvement of multi-floor factories [1,2,3,4,5,6,7] and the development of city multi-floor manufacturing (MFM) [5,6]. A city MFM cluster is characterized by the presence of a group of multi-floor production and non-production buildings, a city logistics node in a dedicated residential area of a huge city, connected by various types of communication and fulfillment of orders for the manufacturing of products and services for the population and enterprises of the city and agglomeration [15] Such clusters formed in the urban environment are facilitated by the policy of allocating urban enterprise zones, which offer tax incentives, infrastructure incentives, and reduced rules for attracting investment and private companies [16], provided that sustainable production is developed, preserving the integrity of biological and physical natural systems [17]

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