Sustainable and Lifecycle Information-based Manufacturing Program

Summary:

To prepare for a future where manufacturing has a zero net impact on the environment, the United States industry will require key resources and methods that will enable it to measure sustainability along several dimensions allowing accurate assessment of status and progress.  These resources and methods require a science-based identification of dimensions, associated measurements and classification and characterization of information relevant to sustainable products, processes, and services.  Such traceable information is critical to product designers and manufacturing engineers so that they can incorporate sustainability in their efforts and comply with international regulations.  To create this information infrastructure the program will: analyze standards requirements and best practices for sustainable manufacturing; create lifecycle information models for interoperability among systems and tools that support sustainable manufacturing; and validate and test information models for sustainable design and manufacturing.

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