Sustainability issues have been receiving escalating worldwide attentions. Industrial development models begin to refer to sustainability as part of their industrial plans. Sustainability represents also a lead concept for influencing relevant stakeholders to develop policy initiatives for research and innovation. The broad approach considers environmental, economical and societal needs as multiple objectives converging on sustainability. How to approach these multi-objectives is not often well understood. Strategic studies focussing new production systems have been carried at European and national level in the last years with the aim to support the broad-based innovation strategy of the European Commission and the role of the stakeholders at national and European level. These studies contain knowledge directly generated by the performers and represent a value asset for Europe in sustainable technology development. MANUFUTURE initiative -conceived in the beginning of this century as a European response to the needs of manufacturing facing the knowledge economy- contributes with a high level strategy that provides the reference model for industrial transformation. The Research Innovation Value Chain -mentioned as an action line for Manufuture-represents the operational place where stakeholders can network to respond to the multi-objectives of sustainability. The DMAIC five-steps is a method -proposed in this paper with example of generic and specific interventions- that enables to define the quality-oriented value creation process for modernizing manufacturing in established production and manufacturing environments. The method helps to create an operative framework for a research action to sustain the process through tools and animation events. The aim is to influence research and innovation policies in different European countries with regard to different sectors, from traditional ones to high tech to meet the key objectives of the Manufuture Initiative.
Strategic studies towards industrial transformation
Paci AM
2009
Abstract
Sustainability issues have been receiving escalating worldwide attentions. Industrial development models begin to refer to sustainability as part of their industrial plans. Sustainability represents also a lead concept for influencing relevant stakeholders to develop policy initiatives for research and innovation. The broad approach considers environmental, economical and societal needs as multiple objectives converging on sustainability. How to approach these multi-objectives is not often well understood. Strategic studies focussing new production systems have been carried at European and national level in the last years with the aim to support the broad-based innovation strategy of the European Commission and the role of the stakeholders at national and European level. These studies contain knowledge directly generated by the performers and represent a value asset for Europe in sustainable technology development. MANUFUTURE initiative -conceived in the beginning of this century as a European response to the needs of manufacturing facing the knowledge economy- contributes with a high level strategy that provides the reference model for industrial transformation. The Research Innovation Value Chain -mentioned as an action line for Manufuture-represents the operational place where stakeholders can network to respond to the multi-objectives of sustainability. The DMAIC five-steps is a method -proposed in this paper with example of generic and specific interventions- that enables to define the quality-oriented value creation process for modernizing manufacturing in established production and manufacturing environments. The method helps to create an operative framework for a research action to sustain the process through tools and animation events. The aim is to influence research and innovation policies in different European countries with regard to different sectors, from traditional ones to high tech to meet the key objectives of the Manufuture Initiative.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
