It’s estimated that manufacturing operations use about one third of the total amount of energy consumed in the country annually. So, manufacturing companies can play an important role in building a sustainable future. The present climate of economic and environmental concerns challenges engineers to optimise manufacturing processes and make them more sustainable.
The good news is that manufacturing engineers — especially from design & development — are already stepping up to the challenge. Every day, engineers design products that conserve energy, reduce waste, and eliminate pollution, and they manufacture those products in sustainable ways.
But there’s more work to be done. It calls for a possible framework or approach in respect of how manufacturing companies can economically introduce environmentally friendly practices to their production operations.
