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Summary of the NIST Workshop on Sustainable Manufacturing: Metrics, Standards, and Infrastructure

August 31, 2010
Author(s)
Sudarsan Rachuri, Ram D. Sriram, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Prabir Sarkar, Jae H. Lee, Kevin W. Lyons, Vijay Srinivasan, Sharon J. Kemmerer
This paper summarizes the presentations, discussions, and recommendations of the NIST Workshop Sustainable Manufacturing: Metrics, Standards, and Infrastructure held at NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, October 13th through October 15th, 2009. The primary

A Measurement Infrastructure for Sustainable Manufacturing

August 6, 2010
Author(s)
Shaw C. Feng, Che B. Joung
Global resource degradation, climate change, and environmental pollution are worsening due to increasing globalized industrialization. The manufacturing industry has thus been put under pressure to cope with these problems while maintaining competiveness

Editorial: Special Issue on: "Developing Sustainable Products, Processes and Services"

August 1, 2010
Author(s)
Sudarsan Rachuri, Prabir Sarkar, Dimitris Kiritsis, Masaru Nakano
We are witnessing an increased interest to ensure that future generations have adequate resources to maintain a high standard of living. The World Commission on Environment and Development defines sustainable development as, Sustainable development is

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

May 31, 2010
Author(s)
Sudarsan Rachuri, Ram D. Sriram, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Prabir Sarkar, Jae H. Lee, Kevin W. Lyons, Sharon J. Kemmerer
This report summarizes the presentations, discussions, and recommendations of the NIST Workshop Sustainable Manufacturing: Metrics, Standards, and Infrastructure held at NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, October 13th through October 15th, 2009. The

A Virtual Machining Model for Sustainability Analysis

May 12, 2010
Author(s)
Guodong Shao, Deogratias Kibira, Kevin W. Lyons
Sustainability has become a very significant research topic since it impacts many different manufacturing industries. The adoption of sustainable manufacturing practices and technologies offers industry a cost effective route to improve economic

Impact of Energy Measurements in Machining Operations

May 12, 2010
Author(s)
Minna S. Lanz, Mahesh Mani, Swee K. Leong, Kevin W. Lyons, Ari Ranta, Kimmo Ikkala, Nils Bengtsson
OOver the past years, institutions in general are increasingly interested and involved in sustainability and social responsibility. In addition, social and political pressures have led to the creation of new regulations and policies that support new

Sustainable Manufacturing: Metrics, Standards, and Infrastructure - NIST Workshop Report

April 21, 2010
Author(s)
Sudarsan Rachuri, Jae H. Lee, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Prabir Sarkar, Kevin W. Lyons, Ram D. Sriram, Sharon J. Kemmerer
This report summarizes the presentations, discussions and recommendations of NIST Workshop on Sustainable Manufacturing: Metrics, Standards, and Infrastructure held at NIST, USA, on October 13th through October 15th, 2009. The primary objective of this

Comparison of Electronics Products Standards for Sustainability

March 1, 2010
Author(s)
Gaurav Ameta, Prabir Sarkar
This paper focuses on electronics product standards in relation to sustainability. Sustainability can be viewed as the ability of the current generation to meet its own need while protecting the environment so that the future generations can also meet

Development Overview of Sustainable Manufacturing Metrics

February 18, 2010
Author(s)
Shaw C. Feng, Che B. Joung
The manufacturing industry is facing the challenge of measuring sustainability performance in a product s life cycle. Developing metrics for sustainable manufacturing is critical to enable manufacturing companies to quantitatively measure the

Development Overview of an Information Model for Disassembly

December 23, 2009
Author(s)
Shaw C. Feng, Hanmin Lee, Che B. Joung, P. Ghodous
Manufacturing is a fundamental support of an industrialized society. Currently, manufacturing industry is facing major challenges, such as resources depletion, global climate change, environmental pollution, and social well being for the future generations
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