Workshop: Research and Education Needs in Sustainable Manufacturing; Atlanta, Georgia; July 2016

该奖项支持一个研讨会，该研讨会将作为一个平台，收集、讨论和综合专家的意见，以解决可持续制造中的几个问题。研讨会的成果可在全国范围内用于启动国家议程和研究和教育路线图，以实施可持续制造实践。制造业是经济增长的引擎，特别是因为制造业的增长带动了其他部门的额外活动。然而，近年来，美国制造业萎缩，面临诸多挑战。 可持续性已经引发了新一轮的制造业创新，并可能成为提高制造业竞争力的工具。 为了在可持续制造中实现先进制造创新，必须同时在产品、流程和系统层面加以解决。实施更可持续的制造实践需要采用闭环物料流战略，在产品报废时回收产品的内含价值，以增加产品再利用、部件再制造和材料回收。在这方面，存在着许多挑战，涉及报废产品非破坏性拆卸的技术能力，并为核心能力开发、部件再制造和不同材料类型的报废处理提出建议。需要更好的工具来实现对整个生命周期产品性能的建模、分析和预测。此外，行业领导者一再强调可持续制造业的教育和劳动力发展需求。研讨会将于2016年7月在格鲁吉亚亚特兰大举行。受邀演讲者带来了可持续制造领域独特而互补的专业知识。研讨会的目标是：（1）检查产品、工艺和系统领域的当前最先进能力，以实现基于全生命周期的可持续制造;（2）确定报废产品非破坏性拆卸的技术差距，并为核心能力发展提出建议;（3）确定再制造的技术差距，并为能力发展提出建议;（4）评估不同类型材料的报废处理技术能力（如金属、聚合物和纤维），并制定高可持续性影响材料的具体需求、差距和挑战;（5）收集现有的能力和工具，以实现对整个生命周期产品性能的建模、分析和预测;以及（6）为研究、教育和劳动力发展计划提出建议，以推进可持续制造技术。 讲习班的结果将汇编成一份报告并广为散发。

This award supports a workshop that will serve as a platform to gather, discuss, and synthesize inputs from experts to address several issues in sustainable manufacturing. The outcomes of the workshop can be used nationwide to initiate a national agenda and a roadmap for research and education to operationalize sustainable manufacturing practices. The manufacturing sector is the engine for economic growth, particularly because growth in manufacturing drives additional activity in other sectors. However, in recent years, US manufacturing has dwindled and has faced numerous challenges. Sustainability has generated a new wave of manufacturing innovation and could become the vehicle to increase manufacturing competitiveness. To enable advanced manufacturing innovation in sustainable manufacturing, it must concurrently be addressed at the product, process and systems levels. Implementing more sustainable manufacturing practices requires the adoption of a closed-loop material flow strategy, where embedded value from products is recovered at end-of-life to increase product reuse, component remanufacturing and material recycling. In this respect many challenges exist with respect to technology capabilities for end-of-life non-disruptive product disassembly and formulate recommendations for core capability development, component remanufacturing and end-of-life processing of different material types. There is a need for better tools that can enable modeling, analysis and prediction of total lifecycle product performance. In addition, the education and workforce development needs in sustainable manufacturing have been repeatedly emphasized by industry leaders. The workshop will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, in July 2016. The invited speakers bring distinct and complementary expertise in sustainable manufacturing. The objectives of the workshop are to (1) examine current state-of-art capabilities in product, process and systems domains to enable total lifecycle-based sustainable manufacturing; (2) identify technology gaps for end-of-life non-disruptive product disassembly and formulate recommendations for core capability development; (3) identify technology gaps for remanufacturing and formulate recommendations for capability development; (4) assess technology capabilities for end-of-life processing of different material types (such as metals, polymers and fibers) and formulate specific needs, gaps and challenges for high sustainability-impact materials; (5) gather existing capabilities and tools available to enable modeling, analysis and prediction of total lifecycle product performance; and (6) formulate recommendations for research, education and workforce development programs to advance sustainable manufacturing technologies. The workshop findings will be compiled to a report and widely disseminated.