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Sustainability in Manufacturing

Publication year: 2007

ISBN: 978-3-540-49871-1

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This book is a kind of final report on Sfb 281 results gained in 12 years of research on sustainability in manufacturing at the Technical University of Berlin. This outcome is supplemented by selected contributions of external research partners from Brazil, China, Denmark, Japan and USA. New processes in remanufacturing as cleaning by laser and prototypical realizations of disassembly systems for different products e.g. washing machines, mobile phones or car engines are presented. The paradigm change in manufacturing from how to produce products most efficiently into how to avoid producing products while still maintaining customer satisfaction and corporate profits is addressed. Teaching and learning in a global university environment are identified as powerful means to overcome the barriers of established thinking habits in societal institutions thus coping with the challenge of sustainability.


Subject: Engineering, Disassembly, Engineering Education, Life Cycle Assessment, Manufacturing, Modularity, Reuse, development, life cyclelife-cycle assessment (LCA), management, material, sustainability, sustainable development