Advances in Life Cycle Engineering for Sustainable Manufacturing Businesses

Download or read book Advances in Life Cycle Engineering for Sustainable Manufacturing Businesses written by Shozo Takata and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-26 with total page 474 pages. 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.