Manufacturing and the environment |
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| Authors: | P. Young Professor Dr-Ing. G. Byrne M. Cotterell |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Cork Regional Technical College, Ireland;(2) Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland |
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| Abstract: | The Industrial Revolution transformed society and its interaction with the environment, increasing the use of natural resources and the pace of development of new products and processes. This has left permanent changes in the structure of society and also on the earth through depletion of resources, alteration of natural habitats and pollution from unwanted byproducts of the production process and discarded products at the end of their useful life. Recently, concern for the environment has led manufacturing industry to take a proactive role in the development of cleaner manufacturing processes and the design of recyclable products. The goal is sustainable development, where the waste from one process becomes the raw material for another in a large cycle which imitates the natural food chain.This paper outlines the requirements for such sustainable development, and gives an example of the elimination of unwanted by-product through the use of dry cutting. |
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| Keywords: | Clean manufacturing Design for environment Dry cutting Environment Industrial ecology Sustainable development |
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