Innovation and Sustainable Manufacturing: Research and Development

Innovation and Sustainable Manufacturing: Research and Development addresses the manufacturing sustainability challenge from different points of view, drawing on research from different disciplines to shed light on the latest green technologies, green product design methods, and materials.

Addressing the needs of practitioners as well as academics, this book examines a range of important themes such as environmental impacts and how to assess them, how to set boundary conditions to include or exclude downstream supply chains, how to improve sustainability without sacrificing productivity, the cost benefits of sustainability, and how to trace impacts in manufacturing.

By providing a thorough review of global research in this field, Innovation and Sustainable Manufacturing acts as an ideal entry point into this discipline for researchers, and a guide to the latest developments for forward-thinking practitioners.

• Covers how different stages of the manufacturing supply chain can impact on sustainability
• Combines research from a variety of disciplines to provide a comprehensive coverage of this complex subject
• Explores the relationship between sustainability and other goals such as productivity, quality, and profitability

About the Author

Carolina Machado received her PhD degree in Management Sciences (Organizational and Politics Management/Human Resources Management) from the University of Minho in 1999, a Master degree in Management (Strategic Human Resource Management) from Technical University of Lisbon in 1994, and a Degree in Business Administration from the University of Minho in 1989. Dr. Machado has lectured in human resource management subjects since 1989 at the University of Minho and has been an Associate Professor there since 2004. Her professional experience and research interests include human resource management, international human resource management, human resource management in SMEs, training and development, change management, and knowledge management. She is Head of the Department of Management and Head of the Human Resource Management Work Group at the University of Minho, as well as the Chief Editor of the International Journal of Applied Management Sciences and Engineering (IJAMSE).

J. Paulo Davim is a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He is also an honorary professor in several universities/colleges in China, India and Spain. He has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience in manufacturing, materials, mechanical and industrial engineering, with special emphasis in machining and tribology. He has worked as an evaluator of projects for the European Research Council (ERC) and other international research agencies as well as an examiner of Ph.D. theses for many universities in different countries. He is the editor-in-chief of several international journals, guest editor of several journals, series editor for Elsevier’s Woodhead Publishing Reviews: Mechanical Engineering book series, and scientific advisor for many international journals and conferences. Presently, he is an editorial board member of 30 international journals and acts as reviewer for more than 100 prestigious journals. In addition, he has also published as editor (and co-editor) more than 150 books and as author (and co-author) more than 15 books, 100 book chapters and 500 articles in journals and conferences. He has published more than 280 articles in prestigious journals.