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How to Green Product Manufacturing

November 19, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Manufacturing can cut CO2 emissions and costs by following five tips on making the product manufacturing process greener, reports Greener Ideal. Reduce waste: If possible, choose a material where you can reuse the waste material, either melting it down or using it in another product. Reduce product parts: This reduces ... Read more »

Leveraging Manufacturing, Part III

June 14, 2012June 14, 2012 by David Dornfeld

We will finish up our example of leveraging (see part I and part II) with this article. Although there was a long dead space in postings, recall that the example was from a recent paper from our research group and focused on the gear train as used in transportation. The ... Read more »

Leveraging Manufacturing, Part II

May 3, 2012May 3, 2012 by David Dornfeld

My last article began to dig into the leveraging discussion and started to elaborate on this topic using an example. The example was from a recent paper from our research group at Berkeley and focused on an important aspect of vehicles and transportation – the gear train. The efficiency of ... Read more »

Tools of the Manufacturing Trade, Part VI

March 7, 2012March 2, 2012 by David Dornfeld

More Comments on Software In my last article, I posed the question, “Suppose you want to take some action – either at the design end or the manufacturing end. What tools can you rely on after you’ve done the background work and now want to move on to execution?” The ... Read more »

Sustainable Musings for the New Year

January 9, 2012January 9, 2012 by David Dornfeld

Choice Items for the New Year I’ve hit the pause button on the “Tools of the Trade” postings for the moment and, on the occasion of New Year, have included here a few items that seem a propos to green manufacturing – broadly interpreted – under the headlines “green or ... Read more »

Tools of the Green Manufacturing Trade, Part 4

December 27, 2011December 27, 2011 by David Dornfeld

Building the Green Manufacturing Pipeline In a recent article, I discussed the concept of “ubiquitously green” as we were getting into the green manufacturing subject in greater detail. I cited Miriam Webster (aka “the dictionally”) for a definition of ubiquitous as “existing or being everywhere at the same time; constantly ... Read more »

Tools of the Green Manufacturing Trade, Part I

November 1, 2011 by David Dornfeld

As any good engineer knows (and carpenter, surgeon, chef, etc. I imagine) you are only as effective at your task as the tools you have. And your own skill of course. Over the past two years we have discussed various approaches to greening manufacturing, the metrics you need to use, ... Read more »

Leveraging Manufacturing for a Sustainable World

December 14, 2010December 14, 2010 by David Dornfeld

I recently attended a conference on high performance manufacturing in Gifu, Japan, focusing on a variety of technical advances to push manufacturing ahead in the face of increasing competition, rising costs, difficult-to-process materials and changing requirements due to advanced product designs. A sub-theme of the conference was energy efficient manufacturing. ... Read more »

Greenwashing in Reverse: Lady Gaga’s Meat Dress

November 1, 2010 by David Dornfeld

Whenever I am thinking of what would be a good topic around which to build the next posting, I never have to wait long till something pops up. This time…the peculiar intersection of celebrity and the environment. Maybe you did not see this (it was hard to miss if you ... Read more »

Data Collection for Energy and Resource Monitoring

October 12, 2010October 12, 2010 by David Dornfeld

I mentioned in my last article that I was attending a manufacturing conference in Italy the end of August and that there was a lot more discussion about some aspects of green and sustainable manufacturing – at least efficient use of energy. This is supported by business surveys and comments ... Read more »

Greening the Supply Chain, Part 3

May 10, 2010September 13, 2010 by David Dornfeld

Our supply chain discussion started with some basic definitions of what is included in a supply chain from a manufacturing perspective, and then added what would be green elements for consideration. Last time I referred to Interface Carpets as a leader in sustainable business development because they have a corporate ... Read more »

Manufacturers: Beware of ‘Greenwashing’

October 4, 2009September 13, 2010 by David Dornfeld

There are a number of companies already addressing some of the green manufacturing challenges … and there are many who are not (yet). Andy Warhol said “Art is what you can get away with.” Ditto for advertising. Unfortunately also ditto for much green advertising. According to Wikipedia greenwashing is “a ... Read more »

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