Anyone who's ever covered a wall with sticky notes to clearly map all of the steps in a process knows how valuable that exercise can be. It can streamline workflow,increase efficiency and improve the overall quality of the halt result. Now, a public-private team led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created a modern international standard that can "map" the critically important environmental aspects of manufacturing processes, or main to significant improvements in sustainability while keeping a product's life cycle low cost and efficient.
Source: phys.org