Green Manufacturing

Commentary, information and resources related to green manufacturing, sustainable manufacturing and sustainability in the US and abroad. Based on information from a variety of sources (web to print) and including technical information from researchers in the field as well as researchers at the University of California in the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Sustainability (LMAS - lmas.berkeley.edu).

Thursday, December 31, 2009

What about corporate sustainability reports (CSR)?

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A few weeks back I read a comment from an industry representative questioning the value of corporate sustainability reports - the CSR. Over...

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Friday, December 25, 2009

Green New Year

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The Copenhagen conference on climate change has just concluded (see http://en.cop15.dk/ ) and we will not really know or understand the ful...

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Green Balancing

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Knowledge is useful. This may not sound surprising coming from an academic. Or, if not knowledge, then at least start with data. As we hav...

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Diving Deeper - Green at the Process Level (Last of a 2 Part Series)

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The more information you have the easier it is to understand what is going on and what you should do next. This simple statement lays out t...

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Thursday, December 3, 2009

Diving Deeper - Green at the Process Level (Part I of II)

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In the last three postings we discussed the potential for combining lean approaches to manufacturing process optimization with green analys...

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Is green lean? (Last of a III part series)

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(Or ... is lean green?) We have been discussing the connection between lean and green. Lean has as its objectives removing everything and...

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Is green lean? (Part II of a III part series)

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(Or ... is lean green?) In the last posting we started the discussion about lean and green. Lean has for sure been a hot topic for some t...

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David Dornfeld: Berkeley, CA, United States; Dornfeld received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from UW-Madison in 1976 and is Will C. Hall Family Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at University of California Berkeley. He leads the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Sustainability (LMAS) (lmas.berkeley.edu) and the Sustainable Manufacturing Partnership (smp.berkeley.edu) studying green/sustainable manufacturing; manufacturing processes; precision manufacturing; process monitoring and optimization. He’s published over 400 papers, authored three research monographs, contributed chapters to several books and has seven patents. He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), recipient of ASME Ennor Award, 2010 and Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award,1986, Fellow of Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), recipient of 2004 SME Fredrick W. Taylor Research Medal, member Japan Society of Precision Engineering (JSPE) and recipient of 2005 JSPE Takagi Prize, Fellow of University of Tokyo Engineering and Fellow of CIRP (Int'l Academy for Production Engineering). He consults on design and manufacturing and associated IP issues.

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