Advances in Sustainable Manufacturing Proceedings of the 8th Global
Non-renewable materials can no longer be disposed once humankind's ever increasing needs cannot be fulfilled anymore due to limited resources. Reuse and recycling become inevitable requirements for product and process design. Renewable resources must not
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Günther Seliger • Marwan K. Khraisheh I.S. Jawahir Editors
Advances in Sustainable Manufacturing
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The International Academy for Production Engineering
Editors Günther Seliger Technische Universität Berlin Department of Machine Tools and Factory Management Pascalstr. 8-9, 10587 Berlin Germany [email protected]
Marwan K. Khraisheh Masdar Institute of Science and Technology Masdar City Abu Dhabi UAE [email protected]
I.S. Jawahir Institute for Sustainable Manufacturing (ISM) University of Kentucky 414 C CRMS Building Lexington, KY 40506 USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-3-642-20182-0 e-ISBN 978-3-642-20183-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-20183-7 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011929783
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Preface The annual Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing (GCSM) sponsored by the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP) is committed to excellence in the creation of sustainable products and processes. These conserve energy and natural resources, have minimal impact upon the natural environment and society, and adhere to the core principle of considering the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. To promote this noble goal, there is a strong need for greater awareness education and training, including dissemination of new knowledge on principles and practices of sustainability applied to manufacturing. The Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing grants international colleagues opportunity to build effective relationships, expand knowledge, and improve practice globally. The conference has previously been held at different counties and locations: at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India in December 2009, at the Pusan National University, Korea in October 2008, at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA in September 2007, at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil in October 2006, at the Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China in October 2005, at the
