Sustainable Manufacturing: Metrics, Standards, and Infrastructure - Workshop summary

Abstract

ext generation product design and manufacturing will be strongly influenced by life cycle environmental impacts and resource depletion. Sustainable manufacturing is a systems approach for the creation and distribution (supply chain) of innovative products and services, that: minimizes resources (inputs such as materials, energy, water, and land); eliminates toxic substances; and produces zero waste that in effect reduces green house gases, e.g., carbon intensity, across the entire life cycle of products and services.Hence, sustainable manufacturing practices will play an important role in "meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."[1] Sustainable manufacturing is causing companies to implement new design and analysis procedures, energy reduction methods, material reduction efforts, and improved materials handling practices. Thus, minimizing environmental impact has become a critical manufacturing industry requirement throughout the product life cycle. To foster sustainable practices, there needs to be a measurement methodology to assign the energy and environmental cost at each stage in that life cycle. Information must be available at Manuscript

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