Sustainable Production Management Applied to Cold Forming Technologies

Abstract

In today’s globalization of businesses, the behavior of the industrial consumers registers a change regarding the products available on market. The industrial consumers become increasingly selective when they decide which components are to be integrated into their final products. The trend observed in business processes is to accommodate the former production processes with the sustainability requirements and recommendations. By considering the markets requests, the manufacturers start to develop sustainable products and associated processes considering the entire life cycle of the product. One of the main jobs of the designers is to integrate in all development and production phases the applicable requirements and finally to come in front of customers with a product which satisfies the technical requirements, on one side, and the sustainability requirements, on the other side, without affecting the capability of the product to be used in a safe way. Safety should be considered in an integrative approach related to producer and user, environmental impact and business efficiency. UDC: [658.5:621.7.016.3]:502.131.1; JEL: O14, L61, M11