How does the carbon footprint of machining products include metal and outsourcing processes?
Is it enough to deal with the product carbon footprint if existing management or relevant information has been completed? For the machining industry, the answer is often not that simple. The boundaries, methods and evidence of concern are not exactly the same for different standards, clients and management purposes. Product carbon footprint needs to define functional units and life cycle boundaries, and convert activity data in raw material, manufacturing, transportation, use and disposal stages into carbon dioxide equivalents. In the past, when the mechanical processing industry dealt with the carbon footprint of products, each unit often
