Glocalized Solutions for Sustainability in Manufacturing: Proceedings of the 18th CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, May 2nd - 4th, 2011

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Electricity Metering and Monitoring in Manufacturing Systems....Pages 1-10
Implementing Life Cycle Engineering efficiently into Automotive Industry Processes....Pages 11-16
Leveraging Manufacturing for a Sustainable Future....Pages 17-21
Sustainability Engineering by Product-Service Systems....Pages 22-28
Solvis Zero-Emission Factory – The ‘Solvis way’ – Structure and Subject....Pages 29-31
Manufacturing and the Science of Sustainability....Pages 32-39
Indian Solar Thermal Technology – Technology to Protect Environment and Ecology....Pages 40-43
Assessment of Energy and Resource Consumption of Processes and Process Chains within the Automotive Sector....Pages 45-50
Assessment of Alternative Propulsion Systems for Vehicles....Pages 51-56
Concept and Development of Intelligent Production Control to enable Versatile Production in the Automotive Factories of the Future....Pages 57-62
Resource Efficiency – what are the Objectives?....Pages 63-66
Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Remanufacturing and New Manufacturing of a Manual Transmission....Pages 67-72
Coordination of Design-for-Recycling Activities in Decentralized Product Design Processes in the Automotive Industry....Pages 73-78
A Strategic Framework for the Design of Recycling Networks for Lithium-Ion Batteries from Electric Vehicles....Pages 79-84
Recovery of Active Materials from Spent Lithium-Ion Electrodes and Electrode Production Rejects....Pages 85-89
New Technologies for Remanufacturing of Automotive Systems Communicating via CAN Bus....Pages 90-95
LCM applied to Auto Shredder Residue (ASR)....Pages 96-99
Eco-Innovation by Integrating Biomimetic with TRIZ Ideality and Evolution Rules....Pages 101-106
Reasoning New Eco-Products by Integrating TRIZ with CBR and Simple LCA Methods....Pages 107-112
Proposal of an Integrated Eco-Design Framework of Products and Processes....Pages 113-117
Development of CAD System for Life Cycle Scenario-Based Product Design....Pages 118-123
Environmental Impact Assessment Model for Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 124-129
Considering the Social Dimension in Environmental Design....Pages 130-135
Proposal of an Ecodesign Maturity Model: supporting Companies to improve Environmental Sustainability....Pages 136-141
Environmental and Operational Analysis of Ecodesign Methods Based on QFD and FMEA....Pages 142-147
Synergico: a new “Design for Energy Efficiency” Method enhancing the Design of more environmentally friendly Electr(on)ic Equipments....Pages 148-153
Improving Product Design based on Energy Considerations....Pages 154-159
Eco-Design Tool to support the Use of Renewable Polymers within Packaging Applications....Pages 160-165
State-of-the-art Ecodesign on the Electronics Shop Shelves? A Quantitative Analysis of Developments in Ecodesign of TV Sets....Pages 167-172
Simultaneous Application of Design for Sustainable Behavior and Linked Benefit Strategies in Practice....Pages 173-178
Strategic Evaluation of Manufacturing Technologies....Pages 179-184
Consideration of the Precautionary Principle – the Responsible Development of Nano Technologies....Pages 185-188
Proposal of a Design Support Method for Sustainability Scenarios 1st Report: Designing Forecasting Scenarios....Pages 189-194
Evaluating Trade-Offs Between Sustainability, Performance, and Cost of Green Machining Technologies....Pages 195-200
Sustainable Production by Integrating Business Models of Manufacturing and Recycling Industries....Pages 201-206
Life Cycle Engineering – Integration of New Products on Existing Production Systems in Automotive Industry....Pages 207-212
Managing Sustainability in Product Design and Manufacturing....Pages 213-218
A System for Resource Efficient Process Planning for Wire EDM....Pages 219-224
Increased Trustability of Reliability Prognoses for Machine Tools....Pages 225-228
Hidden Aspects of Industrial Packaging The Driving Forces behind Packaging Selection Processes at Industrial Packaging Suppliers....Pages 229-234
Applying Functionally Graded Materials by Laser Cladding: a cost-effective way to improve the Lifetime of Die-Casting Dies....Pages 235-239
A Total Life-Cycle Approach towards Developing Product Metrics for Sustainable Manufacturing....Pages 240-245
Carbon Footprint Analysis for Energy Improvement in Flour Milling Production....Pages 246-251
Modelling Machine Tools for Self-Optimisation of Energy Consumption....Pages 253-257
Energy-Efficient Machine Tools through Simulation in the Design Process....Pages 258-262
Energy Consumption Characterization and Reduction Strategies for Milling Machine Tool Use....Pages 263-267
An Investigation into Fixed Energy Consumption of Machine Tools....Pages 268-273
Energy Efficiency Measures for the Design and Operation of Machine Tools: An Axiomatic Approach....Pages 274-279
Analyzing Energy Consumption of Machine Tool Spindle Units and Identification of Potential for Improvements of Efficiency....Pages 280-285
Energy Consumption as One Possible Exclusion Criterion for the Reuse of Old Equipment in New Production Lines....Pages 287-292
Optimizing Energy Costs by Intelligent Production Scheduling....Pages 293-298
Methodology for an Energy and Resource Efficient Process Chain Design....Pages 299-304
A New Shop Scheduling Approach in Support of Sustainable Manufacturing....Pages 305-310
Comparison of the Resource Efficiency of Alternative Process Chains for Surface Hardening....Pages 311-316
Synergies from Process and Energy Oriented Process Chain Simulation – A Case Study from the Aluminium Die Casting Industry....Pages 317-322
Context-Aware Analysis Approach to Enhance Industrial Smart Metering....Pages 323-328
Exergy Efficiency Definitions for Manufacturing Processes....Pages 329-334
State of Research and an innovative Approach for simulating Energy Flows of Manufacturing Systems....Pages 335-340
Modular Modeling of Energy Consumption for Monitoring and Control....Pages 341-346
Architecture for Multilevel Monitoring and Control of Energy Consumption....Pages 347-352
Green Performance Map – An Industrial Tool for Enhancing Environmental Improvements within a Production System....Pages 353-358
Analysis and Quantification of Improvement in Green Manufacturing Process of Silicon Nitride Products....Pages 359-364
Evaluation of the Environmental Impact of different Lubrorefrigeration Conditions in Milling of γ-TiAl Alloy....Pages 365-370
Quantitative and Qualitative Benefits of Green Manufacturing: an Empirical Study of Indian Small and Medium Enterprises....Pages 371-376
Preliminary Environmental Assessment of Electrical Discharge Machining....Pages 377-382
Development of an Interpretive Structural Model of Obstacles to Environmentally Conscious Technology adoption in Indian Industry....Pages 383-388
Identifying Carbon Footprint Reduction Opportunities through Energy Measurements in Sheet Metal Part Manufacturing....Pages 389-394
Sustainable Production Research - a Proposed Method to design the Sustainability Measures....Pages 395-400
Green Production of CFRP Parts by Application of Inductive Heating....Pages 401-406
Saving Potential of Water for Foundry Sand Using Treated Coolant Water....Pages 407-412
Modular Grouping Exploration to design Remanufacturable Products....Pages 413-418
Development of Part Agents for the Promotion of Reuse of Parts through Experiment and Simulation....Pages 419-424
Systematic Categorization of Reuse and Identification of Issues in Reuse Management in the Closed Loop Manufacturing....Pages 425-430
Approach for Integration of Sustainability Aspects into Innovation Processes....Pages 431-436
Remanufacturing Engineering Literature Overview and Future Research Needs....Pages 437-442
Effects of Lateral Transshipments in Multi-Echelon Closed-Loop Supply Chains....Pages 443-447
Development of an Interpretive Structural Model of Barriers to Reverse Logistics Implementation in Indian Industry....Pages 448-453
Recycling of LCD Screens in Europe - State of the Art and Challenges....Pages 454-458
End of Life Strategies in the Aviation Industry....Pages 459-464
Contribution of Recycling Processes to Sustainable Resource Management....Pages 465-469
Business Issues in Remanufacturing: Two Brazilian Cases in the Automotive Industry....Pages 470-475
A Systematic Investigation for Reducing Shredder Residue for Complex Automotive Seat Subassemblies....Pages 476-481
Eco Quality Polymers-EQP....Pages 482-485
Intelligent Products to Support Closed-Loop Reverse Logistics....Pages 486-491
The Prospects of Managing WEEE in Indonesia....Pages 492-496
Medical Electrical Equipment - Good Refurbishment Practice at Siemens AG Healthcare....Pages 497-500
Sustainable Product Lifecycle Management: A Lifecycle based Conception of Monitoring a Sustainable Product Development....Pages 501-506
Semantic Web Based Dynamic Energy Analysis and Forecasts in Manufacturing Engineering....Pages 507-512
Energy Data Acquisition and Utilization for Energy-Oriented Product Data Management....Pages 513-518
Integrating Energy-Saving Process Chains and Product Data Models....Pages 519-524
Challenges in Data Management in Product Life Cycle Engineering....Pages 525-530
Business Game for Total Life Cycle Management....Pages 531-536
Requirements Management – a Premise for adequate Life Cycle Design....Pages 537-542
Towards a Methodology for Analyzing Sustainability Standards using the Zachman Framework....Pages 543-548
Sustainability through Next Generation PLM in Telecommunications Industry....Pages 549-553
Challenges of an Efficient Data Management for Sustainable Product Design....Pages 554-557
Product and Policy Life Cycle Inventories with Market Driven Demand: An Engine Selection Case Study....Pages 558-563
A Case-study: Finding References to Product Development Knowledge from Analysis of Face-to-Face Meetings....Pages 564-568
CAD-Integrated LCA Tool: Comparison with dedicated LCA Software and Guidelines for the Improvement....Pages 569-574
Comparison of two LCA Methodologies in the Machine-Tools Environmental Performance Improvement Process....Pages 575-580
Developing Impact Assessment Methods: an Approach for addressing inherent Problems....Pages 581-586
Developing a Conceptual Framework for UT based LCA....Pages 587-592
Towards the Integration of Local and Global Environmental Assessment Methods: Application to Computer System Power Management....Pages 593-598
Cradle to Cradle and LCA – is there a Conflict?....Pages 599-604
Environmental Assessment of Printed Circuit Boards from Biobased Materials....Pages 605-610
Application of Life Cycle Engineering for the Comparison of Biodegradable Polymers Injection Moulding Performance....Pages 611-616
Using Ecological Assessment during the Conceptual Design Phase of Chemical Processes – a Case Study....Pages 617-622
Environmental Footprint of Single-Use Surgical Instruments in Comparison with Multi-Use Surgical Instruments....Pages 623-628
Comparative Carbon Footprint Assessment of Door made from Recycled Wood Waste versus Virgin Hardwood: Case Study of a Singapore Wood Waste Recycling Plant....Pages 629-634
A Target Costing-Based Approach for Design to Energy Efficiency....Pages 635-640
Life Cycle Costing Assessment with both Internal and External Costs Estimation....Pages 641-646
Environmental and Economic Evaluation of Solar Thermal Panels using Exergy and Dimensional Analysis....Pages 647-651
Implications of Material Flow Cost Accounting for Life Cycle Engineering....Pages 652-656
Aircraft Engine Component Deterioration and Life Cycle Cost Estimation....Pages 657-662
Life Cycle Cost Estimation using a Modeling Tool for the Design of Control Systems....Pages 663-668
Assessing the Value of Sub-System Technologies including Life Cycle Alternatives....Pages 669-674
Costing for Avionic Through-Life Availability....Pages 675-680
Eco Global Evaluation: Cross Benefits of Economic and Ecological Evaluation....Pages 681-686
Back Matter....Pages 687-689