Thursday
Dec082011
Design Technology as a Sustainability Strategy for Manufacturers

In this hour-long webcast, you will hear from David Dornfeld, Department Chair & Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley, Patrick Coulter, Chief Operating Officer, Granta Design, and Sarah Krasley, Product Manager, Sustainability, Autodesk. Joel Makower, Executive Editor at GreenBiz Group, will moderate the panel.
- Increasingly stringent regulatory requirements and market expectations for sustainably designed products
- Cost pressures driving the need to understand material selection integrated with product design as a basis for competitive advantage
- Volatile energy prices forcing a business-wide effort to reduce energy consumption for end products and on the manufacturing floor
- Increasing focus on sustainable manufacturing practices, reducing energy footprint, avoiding substances of concern and reducing process waste


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