Confronted with serious environmental problems caused by the growing mountains of
plastic packaging waste, the prevention and control of plastic waste has become a major …

Presented manuscript investigates the current sustainability research within the automotive
industry, through a comprehensive review of the different studies in vehicles' life cycle …

The global society faces huge challenges to meet the expanding needs of a growing
population within the constraints posed by a climate crisis and a strongly accelerated loss of …

Remanufacturing represents a higher form of reuse by focusing on value-added recovery,
rather than materials recovery (ie, recycling). Remanufacturing systems are widespread in …

Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing and Product Recovery (ECMPRO) has become
an obligation to the environment and to the society itself, enforced primarily by governmental …

In an attempt to improve the design of products and reduce design changes, cost, and time
to market, concurrent engineering or life cycle engineering has emerged as an effective …

The implementations of design for assembly and design for manufacture (DFM) led to
enormous benefits including simplification of products, reduction of assembly and …

This chapter gives a comprehensive account of the materials used in manufacturing
vehicles. In the first section it explains the properties and characteristics that a suitable …

Environmentally conscious design and manufacturing (ECD&M) is a view of manufacturing
that includes the social and technological aspects of the design, synthesis, processing, and …

This paper is a survey of the presently available literature on disassembly sequencing,
including the papers that are closely related to this topic. Disassembly theory is applied to …