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Concluding Remarks and Observations About the Future

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This chapter first looks at the principal developments in manufacturing over the last several hundred years and where this is leading in the future. The role of sustainable manufacturing, and requirements to actually enable this, is discussed. Then, some discussion of “what is manufacturing’s role” relative to the life cycle impact and resource consumption of products is presented. Depending on what phase of product represents the most impact will determine the strategies for greening the product. Finally, the concept of “leveraging” manufacturing to insure the maximum improvement in product life cycle impact is introduced.

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  1. Laboratory for Manufacturing and Sustainability (LMAS), Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 5100A Etcheverry Hall, Mailstop 1740, Berkeley, CA, 94720-1740, USA

    David Dornfeld

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Dornfeld, D. (2013). Concluding Remarks and Observations About the Future. In: Dornfeld, D. (eds) Green Manufacturing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6016-0_12

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