Sutherland Speaks on Sustainable Manufacturing in Japan

Purdue Environmental and Ecological Engineering (EEE) Professor John W. Sutherland delivered a presentation on the paper entitled “Product Redesign for Improved Value Recovery via Disassembly Bottleneck Identification and Removal,” held in Kamakura, Japan as part of the CIRP Life Cycle Engineering Conference in March 2017. The paper was coauthored by EEE Professor Fu Zhao and Ph.D. student Liang Cong. The paper explored how products can be redesigned to promote value recovery at end of life. As Chair of the CIRP Scientific and Technical Committee focused on Life Cycle Engineering, Sutherland also closed the conference (see figure).

The full paper can be accessed at: https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S2212827116313853

While in Japan, Sutherland was an invited speaker at a special satellite workshop on “Life Cycle Engineering” held at Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan.  The workshop was organized by Professor Yasushi Umeda of the University of Tokyo.  Other speakers at the workshop were Professors Sami Kara (University of New South Wales), Michael Hauschild (TU Denmark), and Christoph Herrmann (TU Braunschweig).  Sutherland’s presentation was on “Securing the Future: Advanced, Smart, and Sustainable Manufacturing in the United States.”

To learn more about Professor John W. Sutherland, visit: https://engineering.purdue.edu/EEE/People/ptProfile?resource_id=57089

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