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。研讨会的成果可以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。可持续发展引发了制造业创新的新浪潮，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的制造创新，必须同时在产品、过程和系统层面进行解决。实施更可持续的制造实践需要采用闭环物料流策略，其中产品的内在价值在生命周期结束时得到回收，以增加产品的重复使用、组件再制造和材料回收。在这方面，存在许多挑战，涉及寿命终止无破坏性产品拆卸的技术能力，并为不同材料类型的核心能力开发、组件再制造和寿命终止加工制定建议。我们需要更好的工具来对整个生命周期的产品性能进行建模、分析和预测。此外，可持续制造业的教育和劳动力发展需求已被行业领导者反复强调。该研讨会将于2016年7月在佐治亚州亚特兰大举行。受邀的演讲者在可持续制造方面带来了独特和互补的专业知识。研讨会的目标是：(1)检查当前产品、工艺和系统领域的最先进能力，以实现基于全生命周期的可持续制造；(2)识别报废无损产品拆解的技术差距，制定核心能力发展建议；(3)识别再制造的技术差距，提出能力发展建议；(4)评估不同材料类型（如金属、聚合物和纤维）的报废处理技术能力，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，以实现产品全生命周期性能的建模、分析和预测；(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。讲习班的调查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.