Sustainability management requires differentiated information on the environmental and economic consequences of material demand's increasing and decreasing factors. Material flow cost accounting fails to provide this information due to the common undifferentiated determination of realized costs...

Background: Remanufacturing products for sustainability involves layout and production planning, tools and equipment, material arrangement and handling, inventory management, technology integration, and more. This study presents an empirical vision through a discrete event simulation (DES) model...

Nachhaltigkeit rückt zunehmend in den Fokus der Wirtschaft und der Gesellschaft. Dies gilt insbesondere für Personenkraftwagen als Teil des Mobilitätssektors. Eine Möglichkeit, bestehende Fahrzeuge nachhaltig länger zu nutzen, ist, refabrizierte Ersatzteile zu verwenden. Bisher wird dies...

Research about the circular economy is dominated by engineers, architects, and social scientists in fields other than economics. The concepts they study can be useful in economic models of policies – to reduce virgin materials extraction, to encourage green design, and to make better use of...