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    Evaluation of energy and resource efficiency supported by enterprise modeling
    ( 2013)
    Jochem, R.
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    Weinaug, H.
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    Kolomichuk, S.
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    Oertwig, N.
    The multi-perspective modeling method is an enhancement of enterprise modeling and will enable understandable, operational views ("perspectives") on sustainable value creation. The goal is to allow all stakeholders to make decisions towards the sustainability in their context, ranging from individual enterprise decisions up to cooperation strategies. As known, the sustainability is based on the environmental, economic and social dimensions. The energy and resource efficiency is an essential subset within the sustainability context that affects mainly the first two dimensions. This paper presents an enterprise modeling driven and supported analysis of energy and resource efficiency, which was performed at several small and medium sized enterprises. The experiences gained from this application case are described and their consequences for the multi-perspective modeling method are argued.
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    Rapid Sustainable Plant Assessment (RSPA) - Experiences of practical application and its impact on the further development
    ( 2013)
    Steingrimsson, J.G.
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    Weinaug, H.
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    Oertwig, N.
    Sustainability may have the means to ensure that manufacturing can prevail at the forerun of modern societies, ensuring a profitable productivity without harming the environment and societal values. Without establishing means to evaluate how well the sustainability is carried out in the manufacturing industries, this cause is lost. The Rapid Sustainable Plant Assessment (RSPA) tool was developed in 2012, to assess how well manufacturing enterprises are doing in the different dimensions of sustainability. This paper discusses the development that the RSPA tool has undertaken in order to increase the general applicability of the tool and the industry direction created in order to assess specific industry's characteristics. Also, primary results of industrial application are presented. The paper also provides an outlook on further development of the tool and proposes mechanisms to seamlessly integrate the RSPA results to more detailed analysis methods such as the multi-perspective modelling.
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    Multi-perspective modelling of sustainability aspects within the industrial environment and their implication on the simulation technique
    ( 2011)
    Rabe, M.
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    Jochem, R.
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    Weinaug, H.
    Modelling is a broadly accepted analytic instrument and planning tool. Today, modelling is mainly applied for engineering and physics purposes and covers a short time horizon when compared to intergenerational justice. In parallel, sustainability is gaining increased importance for the industrial planning, because themes like global warming, child labour, and compliance with social and environmental standards have to be taken into account. Sustainability is characterized by comprehensively examining the three dimensions of economic, environmental, and social questions as well as their long-term perspective. Adequate indicators and an adaptation of modelling and simulation methods and procedures are necessary to evaluate the sustainability of industrial processes. A further challenge is the consideration of sustainability effects coming from the usual manufacturing process structure of a value creation network, in particular from cross-company cooperation and geographically distributed production. This article analyses the implications of those advanced tasks on the simulation technique and its application and proposes a conceptual framework for the modelling and simulation of such networks, which differentiates the effects of sustainability by the level of decision-making within enterprises.
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    The role of multi-disciplinary B2(B2B) networks in the "Future Enterprise"
    ( 2009)
    Mihók, P.
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    Rabe, M.
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    Weinaug, H.
    The "ERA Coordination Initiative in the field of Networked Enterprise" is a study, launched by DG INFSO, D4: Networked Enterprise & RFID Unit. One of the major inputs of the study is the interest towards an ERA-NET that would focus on "the Future Enterprise", a cross-thematic, cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral research area of horizontal nature. In this paper the authors consider the challenges and the role of multi-disciplinary B2(B2B) networks in this research area. Some relations to the Advanced ICT for the Product Lifecycle" (AITPL) - a broader research area - are presented.
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    Logistics performance improvement and synchronization of material flow and money flow
    ( 2007)
    Mertins, K.
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    Rabe, M.
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    Schallock, B.
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    Weinaug, H.