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).

Friday, June 27, 2014

The internet of (green) things

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Or … what would my refrigerator tell me if it could talk? Recently I was at a conference on manufacturing where I was caught in in an aval...

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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Creating the Circular Economy, Part I

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Or putting some wheels on the Ricoh comet circle The end of the last posting (an embarrassing long time ago!) spoke of the need to do a be...

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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

New Year's Resolutions

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or ... Things that renew our faith in the future! Over the New Year in the US (perhaps other places too) there is a tradition of making a ...

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Thursday, December 5, 2013

Extending the life of products

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Déjà vu all over again! The last few postings have been concentrating on effective utilization of resources and resource productivity as a d...

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Saturday, November 9, 2013

Sustainability as a Driver for Manufacturing Innovation

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7th Wu Lecture at University of Michigan I was invited to present the Seventh S. M. Wu Lecture in Manufacturing Science at the University of...

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Monday, October 21, 2013

Effective utilization of resources, Part 3

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So … what is effective? In the last posting we covered some additional background about “resource productivity” as a driver for innovatio...

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Effective utilization of resources, Part 2

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Examples of productive use of resources The posting in July discussed thinking more seriously about “resource productivity” as a driver ...

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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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