Sustainable production and logistics in global networks

This book represents the conference papers of the CIRP International Confernce on Manufacturing Systems 2010 and represents the theoretical and practical state of knowledge concerning the main confernce topic "Sustainable Production and Logistics in Global Networks". It includes two key-note papers by Prof. H. ElMaraghy - "Manufacturing Systems Sustainability Through Prefect Co-evolution" - and Prof. H.-P. Wiendahl - "Should CIRP develop a Production Theory?". The included papers are dealing with a broad range of topics such as Productions & logistics networks, Sustainability, Product and service development/management - (special session: IPS2), Production systems (including special session: SPECIES), Lean Engineering & Assembly, Technology in productiion & logistics, Knowledge management in production & logistics, Process modelling and process planning, Factory planning, Production planning, Total Quality Assurance, Productive Maintenance, ICT in production & logistics.