Toward Sustainable Manufacturing through PLM, GIS and LCA interaction Kiyan Vadoudi 1a , Nadege Troussier 1b , Toney Wh Zhu 2 University of Technology of Troyes Troyes, France kiyan.vadoudi@utt.fr nadege.troussier@utt.fr Toney_wh_zhu@shu.edu.cn Abstract— With today’s global awareness of environmental issue as well as social and economic aspects, manufacturing industry is seeking a comprehensive strategic approach to be more sustainable. By continuous sharing of information among the different product lifecycle phases, product lifecycle management acts as an information strategy, which builds a coherent data structure by consolidating systems. Moreover, when the manufacturing is happening, there is location base information available within manufacturing process, which can be used into tools to assess manufacturing process in context of sustainability. This paper presents a new information strategy framework for the green manufacturing paradigm based on integration between current PLM structure and geographical information systems. The proposed IT framework is a comprehensive qualitative answer to the question of how to design and/or improve green manufacturing systems as well as a roadmap for future quantitative research to better evaluate this new paradigm. Keywords— Sustainability; Green Manufacturing; Eco design; Product Lifecycle Management; Geographical Information System; Lifecycle Assessment I. INTRODUCTION In the recent decade rising consumption in natural resources, increase of world-population, environmental impacts, limited natural resources (energy, materials), global communication networks based on standards and an unstoppable worldwide globalization, are increased pressure on companies to think beyond the economic benefits of their processes and products and consider the environmental and social effects. In this context manufacturing industries play important role on environmental dimension of sustainability and it has become the goal for manufacturers to promote manufacturing processes and manufactured products to minimize environmental impacts while maintaining social and economic benefits. Green Manufacturing is presented as an advanced manufacturing mode and a sustainable development strategy, to integrate all the issues of manufacturing through reducing the use of natural resources and the waste and emission, while retaining quality of products and services. Furthermore, product related processes are strongly based on the use of information and Product Life-cycle Management (PLM), as a business strategy, represents a very important approach for achieving a more sustainable way of work and life by managing the entire lifecycle of a product, from ideation, design and manufacture, through service and disposal. PLM, as an information technology platform is able to response this need and drives faster time-to-market, enhances collaboration for global engineering teams, reduces development costs, improves customer satisfaction, and increases the value of product portfolios. On the other side, when the manufacturing is happening there is location-based information available within manufacturing process, which can be used into tools to characterize manufacturing process. In fact manufacturing operations occur in both space and time and by tying these together managers can quickly the action to reduce environmental effects, wastes and bottlenecks through the whole manufacturing process. In this regard Geographical Information System (GIS) is the most efficient location-based technologies, which can be used for businesses to achieve their manufacturing and logistics goals. What is needed now is a new version of IT platform that makes manufactures able to comply better with sustainability requirements. Therefore, the main objective of this paper is to assist manufactures to be more sustainable by using new IT structure, which is based on using geographical information through the structure of PLM to lead, develop and implement the strategic change from conventional design and manufacturing to eco-innovative product design and sustainable manufacturing. This research methodology is based on a mere literature study, evaluating the potential of using GIS in manufacturing systems to improve sustainability in territorial scale, which can be seen as a pre-study to demonstrate and illustrate the impact of taking account of geographic information in PLM to design sustainable systems. It is not possible to discuss implementation of GIS for all aspects of manufacturing and especially in this paper we will focus on geographical information concerning resources, energy, waste and