Author : Shozo Takata
Release : 2007-07-26
Genre : Technology & Engineering
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 351/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Advances in Life Cycle Engineering for Sustainable Manufacturing Businesses by : Shozo Takata
Download or read book Advances in Life Cycle Engineering for Sustainable Manufacturing Businesses written by Shozo Takata. This book was released on 2007-07-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life cycle engineering explores technologies for shifting industry from mass production and consumption paradigms to closed-loop manufacturing paradigms, in which required functions are provided with the minimum amount of production. This subject is discussed from various aspects: life cycle design, design for environment, reduce-reuse-recycle, life cycle assessment, and sustainable business models. This book collects papers from the 14th International CIRP Life Cycle Engineering Conference, the longest-running annual meeting in the field.