What Is Sustainable Manufacturing?

Sustainable development is a hot issue globally, and its two implementation mechanisms are "sustainable production" and "sustainable consumption". The so-called sustainable production refers to the production of material information, the production of human beings and the production of the environment, which are compatible with each other and balanced. The core of sustainable production is that the product design, material selection, production technology, production facilities, market utilization, waste generation and disposal of each product must take environmental protection into account and meet the requirements of sustainable development. Just as pollution source control replaces pollution end treatment, sustainable production is the development and extension of pollution prevention strategies.

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Sustainable development is a hot issue globally. Its two implementation mechanisms are "sustainable production" and "sustainable consumption". The so-called sustainable production refers to the production of material information, the production of human beings and the production of the environment, which are mutually adapted and balanced. The core of sustainable production is that the product design, material selection, production technology, production facilities, market utilization, waste generation and disposal of each product must take environmental protection into account and meet the requirements of sustainable development. Just as pollution source control replaces pollution end treatment, sustainable production is the development and extension of pollution prevention strategies.

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The main contents of sustainable production include environmental design, reduction of toxic chemicals usage and life cycle analysis. Environmental design refers to guiding the concept of environment throughout the entire product design, maximizing the consideration of resource recycling and minimizing waste generation, not just product design and machinery design. To reduce toxic chemicals is to fully consider the dangers of workers using chemicals in the production process and the potential to pollute the external environment, and minimize the use of toxic chemicals. Life cycle analysis is to study the impact of product use on the environment, study the final destination of products entering the market, strengthen the market and after-sales service, so that products can be recovered, disassembled and recycled to the maximum extent.

The production of material information, human production and environmental production, the coordination of these three productions is an important prerequisite for achieving sustainable regional development. Coordination requires specific operations, and coordination operations require theories, guidelines, methods, and techniques that can correctly guide operations. In order to change the operation relationship of the three types of production from disharmony to harmony, the key lies in coordinating the contact methods and contents of the three types of production to ensure the harmonious operation of the entire system. To ensure the development of the three productions and the correct connection between the three productions.

(1) Strengthening environmental management

Deepening the environmental impact assessment system is an important aspect of strengthening environmental management. Environmental impact assessment is to predict the possible impact of human social behavior on the environment through three types of production, and then to evaluate their contributions (positive, negative, and magnitude) to the harmonious operation of three types of production, and then to human society Behavioural adjustments.

(2) Carry out environmental construction

According to three production theories, environmental construction should be carried out. Specifically, it is to allocate investment in human resources and funds to ensure investment in environmental construction. Environmental construction is different from the traditional primary, secondary, and tertiary industries. Its fundamental task is not to provide living materials for human production, but to coordinate the relationship between the three types of production, and to ensure that environmental energy sources provide living materials continuously. And means of production, and then a fundamental measure to fundamentally solve the unsustainable development of human society.

(3) Cooperative social behavior

Human social behavior is composed of government behavior, market behavior, and public behavior, and government behavior is dominant. The government can combine its own means into a systematic overall behavior to raise the public's awareness of sustainable development, thereby regulating the growth of the population, changing the consumption concept and consumption mode that only pursue material enjoyment, and paying attention to material While investing human resources in production, pay attention to investing human resources in environmental production, and so on. Of course, the government may also be driven by recognition of lagging or short-term interests, regardless of the affordability of environmental production, to cater to the tendency of material production to simply pursue maximum economic benefits, and to stimulate the public's tendency to pursue high consumption. This requires the public with a sense of sustainable development to restrict government behavior.
The similarities and differences between the meaning of sustainable production and clean production Clean production refers to the continuous application of environmental strategies for comprehensive prevention in production processes and products to reduce the risk of production activities to humans and the environment; sustainable production is human society and is related to Production activities in harmony with people, nature and society. From these two definitions, there are similarities between clean production and sustainable production, which are manifested in the following aspects: In philosophy, the two have a common era background and theoretical basis, and both are facing severe environmental problems in order to solve economic development. The contradiction between the environment and the resources arises at the historic moment, all based on the industrial ecology theory. In practice, the two approaches are more connected. The implementation methods of cleaner production are classified into two categories: source reduction and recycling, including: reducing resource and energy consumption, reusing raw materials, intermediate products and products, recycling materials and products, and using renewable resources as much as possible. Environmentally sound alternative technologies. In fact, the above approaches are also the implementation ways of sustainable production at the enterprise level to promote harmony between production and nature.
There are three differences between sustainable production and cleaner production in terms of implementation level, target orientation and content dimension:
1. The biggest difference is that the implementation level is different. Cleaner production emphasizes the full-process control of resource utilization and waste discharge in the production activities. It focuses on the production activities of a single enterprise and is mainly implemented within a single enterprise. One product, one device, and one production line can adopt a cleaner production solution. Therefore, cleaner production is a production activity that is limited to the enterprise level. But sustainable production is different. It requires that the production activities or activity methods of the entire social level including enterprise production, regional production and industrial production meet their requirements. This is because the "small-scale" efforts of individual companies to save resources and protect the environment in production activities cannot guarantee that other companies will inevitably choose the same behavior. Only when sustainable development is realized can this kind of demand for the "consistency" of micro-individual production behaviors become a "large-scale" macro issue. In addition, resource conservation and environmental protection depend not only on the efforts of individual enterprises, regions and industrial sectors, but also on the cooperation between different enterprises, regions and industrial sectors. For example, a single enterprise, region, and industrial sector always has its own waste that cannot be eliminated or reused, and this waste may be the raw materials for production of other enterprises, regions, and industrial sectors. Material energy can become the production raw material of other downstream enterprises, regions and industrial sectors, which will undoubtedly help to save resources and reduce environmental pressure. It can be seen that the implementation level of cleaner production is limited to the enterprise level, while sustainable production is at the level of the entire society.
2. Goal-oriented differences The goal of cleaner production is to save resources and energy, maximize economic benefits, and minimize harm to humans and the environment. Compared with clean production, the goal of sustainable production appears more comprehensive, mainly in the following aspects: the impact of production activities on people. Clean production considers the impact of production activities on human health and safety, and one of the goals of its production activities is to minimize the harm of production processes and products to people. Sustainable production must not only consider the impact of production activities on human health and safety, but also the impact of production activities on the development of human capacity; it requires producers to give full play to their initiative and creativity in production activities, and then Realize the full development of one's own ability, and finally promote the all-round development of adults. The impact of production activities on society. Society is the social life system of people formed by the interaction of political, economic, and cultural systems. Therefore, to evaluate the impact of production activities on society, we can start from the impact of production activities on the political, economic, and cultural three social basic levels or subsystems. Go ahead. Clean production only focuses on the impact of production activities on the economic system. It mainly emphasizes the economic benefits or efficiency of production. As far as the impact of production activities on the political and cultural systems is concerned, it is obviously insufficiently focused. However, the social impact of sustainable production on production activities has been given full attention. It not only emphasizes the economic efficiency of production activities, but also its benign promotion of political development, as well as the health-oriented role of production activities on cultural development. For example, in terms of the contribution or impact of production on social employment, sustainable production has given high attention, and this concern has gone beyond clean production.
3 The content dimensions of clean production and sustainable production are different. Clean production includes the control of pollution and resources generated during the entire process from raw material selection, processing, refining, output, use to waste disposal and product development, planning, design, construction and production. Economical use. Good execution of this process depends on both technology and management. But relative to management, cleaner production is more dependent on the development of green technologies. Therefore, cleaner production can be regarded as a technical route problem to a large extent, and its basic content is generally developed in the single dimension of "technology". This is not the case for sustainable production. It not only needs to solve a series of technical problems that must be faced in specific production activities, but also urgently needs to change the current unsustainable production and operation mode of the entire society, including industrial structure and industrial layout. This change is not only an innovation in management methods, but also institutional innovation. Therefore, sustainable production is not limited to "technology". Institutional innovation is as important as technological innovation. It is to carry out comprehensive changes to traditional unsustainable production methods along the two dimensions of "technology" and "institution". From the perspective of content, the two-dimensional expansion of sustainable production in the two dimensions of "technology" and "institution" is clearly different from the one-dimensional extension of cleaner production in the "technology" dimension only.