Managing CO2 Emissions in the Manufacturing Sector—A Methodological Proposal

The diversity of manufacturing processes is staggering, and they contribute to various degrees of carbon emissions too, depending on the materials processed and the parameters of machine tools and equipment used. Most of the time, production managementManagement is focused on optimization of the machine use and the reduction of nonconformities, while at the same time keeping a high level of productivity and just-in-time connectivity within the global supply chains. In more complex situations, the sustainabilitySustainability factor is also taken into consideration, in terms of materials use, scrap and waste, emissions and spills, and human resource involvement. We aim to complete these approaches with a methodology for the identification of the level of CO2 emissionsCO2 emissions on small-scale machining processes, in order to further develop a mathematical model of enterprise-wide contributions to carbon emissions, focusing on the decarbonization of the economy.