DYNAMIC SUSTAINABILITY FACTOR MANAGEMENT

• US 20100274603A1
• Filed: 04/24/2009
• Published: 10/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated (Rockwell Automation, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated (Rockwell Automation, Inc.)
• Inventors: Walker, Marcia Elaine, Kaufman, Philip John
• Application Number:
  US12/429,817
• Publication Number:
  US 20100274603A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/279 Recognition of textual entities
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/82 Energy audits or management systems therefor
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/84 Greenhouse gas [GHG] management systems

Abstract

A dynamic sustainability factor management system that can facilitate scoring of sustainability factors associated with an industrial environment is provided. Particularly, the system can evaluate factors related to the ‘planet,’ ‘people,’ and ‘profits’ to establish a sustainability rating. This rating can be generated and applied in most any level of granularity as desired. Additionally, weighting factors can be individually applied to sustainability factors in computation of the sustainability score. These weighting factors facilitate individualization or personalization in calculation of a score.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates sustainability factor scoring, comprising:

a collection component that gathers a plurality of sustainability factors associated with an industrial environment; and

a score generation component that establishes a dynamic sustainability score based at least in part upon a subset of the plurality of sustainability factors.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of sustainability factors are at least one of factors related to planet, people or profit.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a calculation component that computes the dynamic sustainability score based at least in part upon the subset of the plurality of sustainability factors.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the dynamic sustainability score is at least one of an individual value, a combinatorial value, a multi-factorial value, or a weighted value.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a weighting component that facilitates consideration of at least one weighting factor in computation of the dynamic sustainability score.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one weighting factor is user defined.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one weighting factor is a regulatory factor.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a calculation component that facilitates computation of a lifecycle dynamic sustainability score, wherein the lifecycle sustainability score is an aggregation of a plurality of dynamic sustainability scores associated with a product lifecycle.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the product lifecycle includes a plurality of lifecycle phases.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the plurality of lifecycle phases includes extraction, material, components, assembly, sale, consumer use, recycle or disposal.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the dynamic sustainability score is associated with a product from at least one of a unit or batch perspective.

12. The system of claim 1, further comprising a storage component that facilitates retaining the dynamic sustainability score.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the storage is located in at least one of a local, remote, distributed or cloud-based store.

14. A computer-implemented method for dynamic sustainability scoring of an industrial environment, comprising:

employing a processor that executes computer executable instructions stored on a computer readable storage medium to implement the following acts;

collecting a plurality of sustainability factor data elements; and

establishing a dynamic sustainability score based at least in part upon a subset of the sustainability factor data elements, wherein the dynamic sustainability score is at least one of an individual value, a combinatorial value, a multi-factorial value, or a weighted value.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, further comprising calculating the dynamic sustainability score based upon a computer-executable algorithm.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, further comprising weighting the dynamic sustainability score based at least in part upon a policy, preference or regulatory factor.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein the plurality of sustainability factor data elements are at least two of planet-related, people-related or profit-related elements.

18. The computer-implement method of claim 14, further comprising establishing a lifecycle dynamic sustainability score that represents a sustainability score in each phase of a product or process cycle.

19. A computer-executable system, comprising:

means for collecting a plurality of sustainability factors related to a product or process within an industrial environment; and

means for calculating a dynamic sustainability rating as a function of a subset of the plurality of sustainability factors, wherein the sustainability rating is one of an individual value, a combinatorial value, a multi-factorial value, or a weighted value.

20. The computer-executable system of claim 19, further comprising means for weighting a subset of the sustainability factors based upon a policy or preference.