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The 18th CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) 2011 continues a long tradition of scientific meetings focusing on the exchange of industrial and academic knowledge and experiences in life cycle assessment, product development, sustainable manufacturing and end-of-life-management. The theme “Glocalized Solutions for Sustainability in Manufacturing” addresses the need for engineers to develop solutions which have the potential to address global challenges by providing products, services and processes taking into account local capabilities and constraints to achieve an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable society in a global perspective. Glocalized Solutions for Sustainability in Manufacturing do not only involve products or services that are changed for a local market by simple substitution or the omitting of functions. Products and services need to be addressed that ensure a high standard of living everywhere. Resources required for manufacturing and use of such products are limited and not evenly distributed in the world. Locally available resources, local capabilities as well as local constraints have to be drivers for product- and process innovations with respect to the entire life cycle. The 18th CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) 2011 serves as a platform for the discussion of the resulting challenges and the collaborative development of new scientific ideas.

Engineering. --- Engineering design. --- Engineering economy. --- Industrial engineering. --- Sustainable development. --- Manufacturing processes --- Sustainable engineering --- Production management --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Industrial & Management Engineering --- Environmental aspects --- Manufacturing management --- Engineering sustainability --- Green engineering --- Industrial processing --- Manufacture --- Process engineering (Manufactures) --- Processes, Manufacturing --- Processing, Industrial --- Production processes --- Energy efficiency. --- Production engineering. --- Energy industries. --- Industrial and Production Engineering. --- Sustainable Development. --- Energy Efficiency (incl. Buildings). --- Energy Economics. --- Engineering Design. --- Industrial management --- Engineering --- Green technology --- Environmental engineering --- Industrial arts --- Production engineering --- Machine-tools --- Materials --- Energy Efficiency. --- Energy Policy, Economics and Management. --- Design, Engineering --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Management engineering --- Simplification in industry --- Value analysis (Cost control) --- Design --- Energy policy. --- Energy and state. --- Energy and state --- Power resources --- State and energy --- Industrial policy --- Energy conservation --- Consumption of energy --- Energy efficiency --- Fuel consumption --- Fuel efficiency --- Manufacturing engineering --- Process engineering --- Industrial engineering --- Mechanical engineering --- Government policy

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Business models, which aims at determining how efficient can be a life cycle strategy from different point of view (customer, policy, environment, economics,…). End of life strategies, presenting recent approaches and technological solutions for end-of life treatments. Product development for sustainability, which aims at showing how designers integrate environmental conside- tions to improve their solutions. Product life cycle management, dealing with methods and tools to support life cycle considerations. This book is divided into four sections reflecting the above themes and will be of interest to academics, students and practitioners, specializing in environmental issues in mechanical engineering. We hope that you will find it of the greatest interest to compare your various points of view within the field broached throughout the conference. We hope you all - joy reading this book, which aims to be a reference textbook for all - searchers in this particular field and for the teaching staff confronted with training methodologies in integrated design and environment. It will allow you to assess the scope of the development prospects in an extremely wide ranging field. Finally, we would like to highlight the very significant input of the m- bers of the organizing committee for the success of the conference and to express our sincere appreciation to all the authors and to the members of the international program committee.

Product life cycle --- Sustainable development --- Life cycle, Product --- Manufactures --- Marketing --- Product management --- Life cycle --- Engineering design. --- Computer aided design. --- Manufactures. --- Environmental management. --- Waste disposal. --- Engineering Design. --- Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design. --- Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes. --- Environmental Management. --- Waste Management/Waste Technology. --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Manufactured goods --- Manufactured products --- Products --- Products, Manufactured --- Commercial products --- Manufacturing industries --- CAD (Computer-aided design) --- Computer-assisted design --- Computer-aided engineering --- Design --- Design, Engineering --- Engineering --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- Computer-aided engineering. --- Waste management. --- CAE --- Data processing