标准2025美国材料与试验协会（ASTM）国际可持续发展委员会（E60）已制定了一项新的指南，该指南有助于企业制定合理、务实的运营目标，以降低制造过程对环境的影响。
该项标准（即将发布，标准的编号为E3096，制造过程环境方面关键绩效指标的定义、选择和组织指南）了使用关键绩效指标（KPI）来衡量自我完善目标的程度。
ASTM国际成员美国马里兰州盖瑟斯堡市的美国国家标准技术研究院肖恩峰（Shaw C. Feng）表示：“使用该指南，工业用户可开发出一系列KPI，以评估其制造工艺的可持续性绩效。”
据Feng博士介绍，该标准能帮助用户确定要衡量的内容，以确定其是否达到可持续发展的目标。良好的测量将是具体的、可衡量的、可获得的/可实现的，相关度高的、有时限的。
制造商可以使用该指南来确定测量重点，以跟踪并减少制造过程中可能产生的环境影响（如有害物质）。
他们邀请了行业专业人士参与到试点实践，根据相关经验改进后续的版本。
Tracking the Sustainability of Manufacturing Processes
ASTM International’s committee on sustainability (E60) has developed a new guide that will help companies set reasonable, realistic operational objectives for reducing the environmental impact of their own manufacturing processes.
The standard (soon to be published as E3096, Guide for the Definition, Selection, and Organization of Key Performance Indicators for Environmental Aspects of Manufacturing Processes) uses key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure how well an objective for self-improvement is being met.
“Using this guide, industrial users will develop sets of KPIs to assess the sustainability performance of their manufacturing processes,” says ASTM International member Shaw C. Feng of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland. According to Feng, the standard helps users identify what to measure to determine whether their sustainability goals are being met. Good measurements will be specific, measurable, attainable/achievable, relevant, and time-bound, among others.
Manufacturers can use the guide to help set measurement priorities for tracking and reducing environmental impacts, such as harmful substances, that can be generated by the manufacturing process.
Industry professionals are invited to participate in pilot implementations of the guide to help improve future versions based on experience.