Collaborative Product and Service Life Cycle Management for a Sustainable World: Proceedings of the 15th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent E

Bys: Curran, Richard, Chou, Shuo-Yan, Trappey, Amy

Book Overview

"Collaborative Product and Service Life Cycle Management for a Sustainable World" gathers together papers from the 15th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (CE2008), to stimulate the new thinking that is so crucial to our sustained productivity enhancement and quality of life. It is already evident in this new century that the desire for sustainable development is increasingly driving the market to reach for new and innovative solutions that more effectively utilize the resources we have inherited from previous generations; with the obvious responsibility to future generations. Human productivity and progress can be positively engineered and managed in harmony with the provision and needs of our natural environment. One century on from the industrial revolution, this is now the time of the sustainable revolution; requiring holistic technological, process and people integrated solutions to sustained socio-economic enhancement.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848009712
• ISBN13: 9781848009714
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 621 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.1"