Sustainable Manufacturing Indicator Repository (SMIR)

Description/Summary:

The Sustainable Manufacturing Indicator Repository (SMIR) aims to provide a centralized access to sustainability indicators to help companies measure their sustainability performance. The Sustainable Manufacturing Indicator Repository provides:

Analysis of 13 publicly available indicator databases
Categorized indicator sets based on similarity and application of indicator
Search capability of related indicators (future work)

Design and manufacturing strongly influence a product's life cycle impacts on the environment and the company's sustainability. Sustainable manufacturing is an approach for the creation and distribution (supply chain) of innovative products and services that minimally use natural resources, contain no toxic substances, produce zero waste, create net-zero greenhouse gases across the entire life cycle of products and services, and are socially responsible.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Sustainable development is a pattern of resource use that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for future generations. The term was used by the Brundtland Commission which coined what has become the most often-quoted definition of sustainable development as development that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” (Source: The World Commission on Environment and Development Report on Our Common Future, published by Oxford University Press in May 1987.)

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Last Updated: 02/2011

Type of software: Web-based Portal

Authors:

Shaw Feng
Che B. Joung
Prabir Sarkar
Kristy Thompson
Sharon Kemmerer

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Web-based

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Sustainable Manufacturing Indicator Repository Homepage

References/Credits/Disclaimers:

The Sustainable Manufacturing Indicator Repository was produced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the U.S. government and by statute are not subject to copyright in the United States . Recipients of these tools assume all responsibility associated with their operation, modification, maintenance, and subsequent redistribution.

Names of companies and products, and links to commercial pages are provided in order to adequately specify procedures and equipment used. In no case does such identification imply recommendation or endorsement by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, nor does it imply that the products are necessarily the best available for the purpose.

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