Sustainable manufacturing – efficiency and effectiveness
• Energy
• Water
• Materials
• Chemicals
• Planetary and other boundaries in manufacturing
• ..........
Circular economy
• Product-service systems
• Maintenance engineering
• Recycle and resource circulation
• Reuse and remanufacturing
• Reverse logistics
• Service engineering
• Industrial symbiosis
• Planetary and other absolute boundaries in circular economy
• ..........
Life cycle management
• Life cycle planning and development
• Sustainability of value chains
• Development and application of sustainability tools for industry
• Corporate Sustainability Reporting and UN SDGs
• Sustainability according to the UN SDGs in SMEs
• Sustainable business models
•Use of footprinting in industry
• ..........
Sustainable consumption and production
• National Footprints
• Green growth
• ..........
Life cycle engineering education and training
• LCE curricula
• Transfer of LCE practice from
academia to industry
• ..........
Analysis
• Life cycle assessment
• Life cycle costing
• Sustainability assessment of emerging technologies (IoT, robotics, additive manufacturing, …)
• ..........
Synthesis
• Design for environment/sustainability
• Life cycle design
• ..........
Absolute sustainability assessment