The material efficiency represents the relationship of the manufactured products to the quantity of the assigned materials.

Materialeffizienz=Produktoutput/Materialinput

The meanwhile popular term is equivalent to material productivity, whereby the latter would be technically more correct (see also productivity).

Meaning won material efficiency regarding the industriellen trend of costs. Thus material costs represent 25% to 50% of the total costs of an enterprise in the processing trade at present in Germany approx., personnel expenditure however only. Due to the focusing of reduction of costs programs on the personnel expenditure the productivity rose around the factor 3.5, the material productivity however only around the factor 2.

Due to the meaning for the industry around the topic material efficiency numerous research projects and advancement programs were expenditure-praised. An important instrument for the increase of the material productivity is the energy and material flow management.

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• Material efficiency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Material efficiency is a description or metric which expresses the degree to which a construction project or physical process is carried out in a manner ...


• Tidepool | Materials Efficiency
  Materials efficiency is measured by the amount materials consumed per unit of end-use ... Examples of materials efficiency include closed-loop production ...