OBIETTIVI FORMATIVI

The course addresses the need for engineers to develop solutions which have the potential to address global challenges by providing products, services and processes taking into account local capabilities and constraints to achieve an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable society in a technological perspective. Resources required for manufacturing and use of such products are limited and not evenly distributed in the world. Locally available resources, local capabilities as well as local constraints have to be drivers for product- and process innovations with respect to the entire life cycle. The course aims to provide a tool box for supporting sustainable manufacturing practices to assist manufacturing companies reduce inputs, waste and costs, improve efficiencies, increase productive performance, achieve greater competitiveness. The course encourages an holistic system perspective integrating social, environmental, economical, and technological factors.

OBIETTIVI FORMATIVI (DETTAGLIO) E RISULTATI DI APPRENDIMENTO

The course addresses the need for engineers to develop solutions which have the potential to address
global challenges by providing products, services and processes taking into account local capabilities and
constraints to achieve an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable society in a technological
perspective. Resources required for manufacturing and use of such products are limited and not evenly
distributed in the world. Locally available resources, local capabilities as well as local constraints have to be
drivers for product- and process innovations with respect to the entire life cycle. The course aims to provide
a tool box for supporting sustainable manufacturing practices to assist manufacturing companies reduce
inputs, waste and costs, improve efficiencies, increase productive performance, achieve greater
competitiveness. The course encourages an holistic system perspective integrating social, environmental,
economical, and technological factors.

MODALITA' DIDATTICHE

Course slides presented during classes

Assignments on industrial cases

Articles reading

PROGRAMMA/CONTENUTO

Topic 1 – Cultural awareness
Topic 2 – Business Models for Industrial Sustainability
Topic 3 – Eco-design and Life Cycle Assessment
Topic 4 – Industrial Symbiosis
Topic 5 – Industrial Sustainability and Sustainable Manufacturing toolbox
Topic 6 – Simulation and sustainability
Topic 7 – Industry 4.0 for sustainability
Topic 8 – Global Manufacturing evolution and Factories of the Future

TESTI/BIBLIOGRAFIA

J. Randers, 2052, Edizioni Ambiente, 2012
Pauli G., Blue Economy, Report to Club of Rome, 2010 (ITA or ENG version)

Graedel, T.E., Allenby, B.R., Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Engineering, PEARSON, 2010

McDonough, Braungart M, Cradle to cradle, Northpoint press, 2002

Hawken, P., Lovins, A.B,., Lovins, L.H., Natural capitalism: the next industrial revolution. 2nd Ed., Routledge, 2005