Engineering for Sustainability

Engineering for Sustainability This book outlines a series of principles to help engineers design products and services to meet customer and societal needs with minimal impact on resources and the ecosystem. The third volume in a series on sustainable engineering, this book provides up-to-date information on planning and implementing sustainable activities. Using examples and case studies from the government, military, academia, and commercial enterprises, the authors provide a set of tools for long-term sustainability. The book explains how an entire enterprise can be engineered to sustain itself and not just certain products. Sustainability and sustainable development have become popular goals. They have also become wide-ranging terms that can be applied to any entity or enterprise on a local or a global scale for long time periods. As enterprises and systems become more complex and development a support costs increase, the question remains: how does one engineer an enterprise or a product for sustainability? Engineering for Sustainability provide common sense information for engineering, planning, and carrying out those tasks needed to sustain military products and services and, in turn, the entire enterprise.This book tackles the problem from the top down, beginning with discussions on planning initiatives and implementing sustainable activities. It outlines a series of principles to help engineers design products and services to meet customer and societal needs with minimal impact on resources and the ecosystem. Using examples and case studies from the government, military, academia, and commercial enterprises, the authors provide a set of tools for long-term sustainability and explain how an entire enterprise can be engineered to sustain itself.Achieving the high levels of sustainability needed in complex military and industrial systems is too often an elusive goal. Competing rules and regulations, conflicting goals and performance metrics, the desire to incorporate promising commercial off Autor: Dennis F.X. (Babson College Mathaisel, Joel M. Manary Wydawnictwo: Taylor & Francis Rok wydania: 2012 Okładka: twarda Liczba stron: 518 Wymiary: 25.5 x 18.5 x 2.9 cm Ilustracje: 108 Tables, black and white; 140 Illustrations, black and white Język: angielski ISBN: 9781439853511