Increasing the Resource Efficiency of Machine Tools by Life Cycle Oriented Services

Abstract

The increasing responsibility of companies for sustainable manufacturing of their products requires a resource-efficient use of a machine tool. Aside from technical measures regarding the machines, life cycle oriented services present a high potential for improving resource efficiency. In order to exploit these potentials systematically, a method to identify and to analyze impacts of services on the resource efficiency of a machine tool is required. In this paper, existing approaches for increasing the resource efficiency of a machine tool are analyzed. Then a framework is presented that enables manufacturers of machine tools to improve the resource efficiency of their machines with different services.