Sustainability in Manufacturing - Recovery of Resources in Product and Material Cycles

The challenges of sustainable manufacturing were accepted by several research institutions at the Technical University Berlin and lead to the establishment of the Collaborative Research Center (Sfb) 281 Dissassembly Factories for the Recovery of Resources in Product and Material Cycles funded by the German Research Foundation in 1995. This book details the numerous scientific results that are now available after 12 years of research.


Professor Seliger is university professor at the Technical University of Berlin and head of Institute for Machine Tools and Factory Management. Furthermore, he is a member of the Executive Board of Berlin Technology Foundation and chief organizing professor of the 'International Master of Science - Course for Global Production Engineering'. He is the director of the Collaborative Research Center 281, supported by the DFG (German Research Foundation) which deals about 'Disassembly Factories fpr the Recovery of Ressources in Product and Material Cycles'.