Professor Nakano gave a lecture on "Sustainable Manufacturing: Past and Future Trends in Japan"
Professor M. Nakano
In his lecture, Professor Masaru Nakano provided a definition and approaches of sustainable manufacturing and described past efforts and challenges related to ecological manufacturing in Japan, as well as the strategic technology roadmap developed since 2005. The efforts include issues such as environmental pollution, energy, material, and global warming, along with ecological technology and policy. In addition, he introduced studies on sustainable manufacturing for green society with clean energy vehicles as a research example in the SDM.
Masaru Nakano is a professor of Graduate School of System Design and Management, Keio University, Japan. He was a principal researcher and laboratory manager at Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc before joining Keio. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in operations research from Kyoto University and a Dr. Eng. degree in industrial engineering from Nagoya Institute of Technology. Dr. Nakano has studied in the fields of robotics, manufacturing system design, simultaneous engineering, global supply chain management, enterprise integration, business process reengineering, marketing and consumer research, and sustainable manufacturing. He is a member of IFIP, JSME, ORSJ, JIMA, etc.