TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) A1 - Kleine-Möllhoff, Peter A1 - Braun, Anja A1 - Reichenberger, Volker A1 - Seiter, Stephan T1 - Approach to enable a material efficiency-strategy for small and medium sized manufacturing enterprises JF - Procedia CIRP N2 - It has not yet been possible to achieve the desired aim of decoupling economic growth from global material demand. Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) represent the backbone of most industrialized economies. Although material efficiency is of vital importance for many SMEs, few of them actually treat it as their top priority. There is a cornucopia of tools and methods available, which can be used for material efficiency purposes. These, however, have gained little groud in the SME-field. This work deals with the enabling factors for material efficiency improvements in manufacturing SMEs and projections towards aspects of supply chain and circular economy. A multi-disciplinary decoupling approach for manufacturing SMEs and an implementation roadmap for further practical development are proposed. The approach combines appropriate complexity of technology and socio-economic considerations. It enables a connection to existing methods and the implementation of established information technologies. KW - productivity KW - material KW - manufacturing KW - decision support tool Y1 - 2018 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-17174 SN - 2212-8271 SS - 2212-8271 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2017.11.106 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2017.11.106 VL - 69 SP - 787 EP - 792 S1 - 6 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER -