Sustainable Overall Throughputability Effectiveness (S.O.T.E.) as a Metric for Production Systems

• Published in: Sustainability Vol. 10; no. 2; p. 362
• Main Authors: Durán, Orlando, Capaldo, Andrea, Duran Acevedo, Paulo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 31.01.2018
• Subjects: Case crushing; Case studies; Sustainability; System effectiveness

This paper proposes a new index for a comprehensive and systematic measurement of sustainability and throughput performance in production systems. The proposed index, called Sustainable Overall Throughput Effectiveness (S.O.T.E.), is designed on the basis of a comparison of the environmental and ope...