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As negative implications of resource exploitation and further undesirable ecological developments, e.g. climate change, increase, companies are confronted with novel challenges. Especially during the production stage of a product’s lifecycle companies have the possibility to influence the resource consumption by choosing the most efficient process chain for a certain manufacturing task. To compare accumulated resource flows of different process chains, a new valuation method using a resource efficiency index was developed. Exemplarily, this paper will analyze the resource consumption of two alternative process chains for surface hardening of a workpiece resembling a guide rail.
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Reinhart, G., Reinhardt, S., Föckerer, T., Zäh, M.F. (2011). Comparison of the Resource Efficiency of Alternative Process Chains for Surface Hardening. In: Hesselbach, J., Herrmann, C. (eds) Glocalized Solutions for Sustainability in Manufacturing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19692-8_54
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