Green manufacturing : fundamentals and applications / David A. Dornfeld, editor.

Includes index (pages287-289).

Introduction to Green Manufacturing / David Dornfeld, Chris Yuan, Nancy Diaz, Teresa Zhang, and Athulan Vijayaraghavan -- The Social, Business, and Policy Environment for Green Manufacturing / Hazel Onsrud, Rachel Simon -- Metrics for Green Manufacturing / Corinne Reich-Weiser, Rachel Simon, Timo Fleschutz, Chris Yuan, Athulan Vijayaraghavan, and Hazel Onsrud -- Green Supply Chain / Yifen Chen, Rachel Simon, Corinne Reich-Weiser, Justin Woo -- Principles of Green Manufacturing / Moneer Helu, David Dornfeld -- Closed-Loop Production Systems / Athulan Vijayaraghavan, Chris Yuan, Nancy Diaz, Timo Fleschutz, and Moneer Helu -- Semiconductor Manufacturing / Sarah Boyd, David Dornfeld -- Environmental Implications of Nano-manufacturing / Chris Yuan, Teresa Zhang -- Green Manufacturing Through Clean Energy Supply / Chris Yuan -- Packaging and the Supply Chain: A Look at Transportation / Rachel Simon, Yifen Chen -- Enabling Technologies for Assuring Green Manufacturing / Athulan Vijayaraghavan, Moneer Helu -- Concluding Remarks and Observations About the Future / David Dornfeld.

This book "introduces the basic definitions and issues surrounding green manufacturing at the process, machine, and system (including supply chain) levels. The book shows, by way of several examples from different industrial sectors, the potential for substantial improvement and the paths to achieve such improvement. In addition, this book discusses regulatory and government motivations for green manufacturing and outlines strategies for making manufacturing more environmentally benign as well as production more sustainable ..."--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.