Safe and Sustainable Value Creation by Design
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This is an open access book. It gathers the first volume of the proceedings of the 21st Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing, held on September 10-12, 2025, in Bologna, Italy. With a focus on Safe and Sustainable Value Creation by Design, the chapters in this book report on strategies towards the sustainable transformation of industry. They cover applications of Lean Six Sigma, circularity evaluation, and methods for footprint calculations. They discuss new design approaches and advances in additive manufacturing and materials to improve safety and sustainability. All in all, they offer extensive and timely information for both researchers and professionals in the field of manufacturing and business development.
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The need to integrate sustainable leadership into sustainable manufacturing.- Validating Behavioural Model of Rational Choice for Net Zero Manufacturing: An Action Research Approach.- Driving Sustainability with Green Lean Six Sigma: A DMAIC-Based Approach.- Corporate Sustainability: A Procedure Model for Strategy Development and Implementation.- Tools and Methods Supporting SMEs in Implementing Circular Practices.- A Circular Economy Indicator Screening Tool for Manufacturing-as-a-Service Systems.- Cost and environmental impact savings enabled by Industrial Symbiosis implementation.- Design of Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model for Global and Closed-Loop Supply Chain Networks Considering GHG Emissions, Recycling Rate, and Costs Using Linear Physical Programming.- Characterization of the Calendering Process for Sulfide-Based Solid-Electrolyte Separators.- Towards Addressing Co-Creation Gaps: Automating Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design Workflows with Electronic Lab Notebooks.- Calcium Ferrites: Innovative and Multifunctional Solutions for Wastewater Treatment.- SSbD Industrial Case Study: Sustainable Alternatives to Anti-Stick Coatings for Aluminum Molds in Bakery Application.- Product Generation Interoperability to Enable Circular Economy in Product Development.- Enhancing Sustainability in Polymer Additive Manufacturing by Simulations through Computational Fluid Dynamics.- Use cases for data spaces to support sustainable engineering decisions in additive manufacturing.- Evaluating Mechanical Performance and Sustainability in Metallic Additive Manufacturing: A Comparative Study of Selective Laser Melting and Wire Laser Metal Deposition.- Data-driven energy consumption modeling of injection molding machine modules.- Sustainability Index-Based Characterization of Al 3003 part in Die-Press versus Incremental Sheet Forming.- Harvesting Nature's Red Gold: An Environmental Assessment of Lycopene Conventional Extraction.