Providing A Green Value Stream Map to Improve Production Performance

Abstract

Today, the cement industry has gone through a growing trend. Achieving the country's economic development, social development and cultural development goals is essential. However, in line with these benefits, the environmental damage caused by cement factories is inevitable. In the present research, which was carried out to reduce environmental losses, value flow mapping and simulation by Arena software were used in two stages. It was determined in the first stage using the current simulated situation and the waste and environmental pollution created. Then by redrawing the future value flow map and using experts' opinions, the amount of reduced pollution caused by some measures was estimated. Then, in the second stage a new simulation was done to evaluate the reduced environmental pollution. The results of this research showed that by using the methods mentioned above in the primary production line process of the Cement Company, about 30% of waste and pollutions were reduced.

Received: 25 April 2023 | Revised: 25 June 2023 | Accepted: 27 July 2023 

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to this work.

Data Availability Statement

Data available on request from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

Author Contribution Statement

Somaieh Alavi: Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Investigation, Data curation, Writing - original draft, Supervision, Project administration. Parisa Siamaki: Software, Formal analysis, Investigation, Data curation, Writing - review & editing, Visualization, Seyedmehdi Mirmohammadsadeghi: Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Investigation, Writing - original draft, Supervision.