The 27th CIRP Life Cycle Engineering Conference (France)
Advancing Life Cycle Engineering from technological eco-efficiency to technology that supports a world that meets the development goals and the absolute sustainability
The CIRP Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) conference is back to Grenoble (France) in 2020. To quote a well-known saying, the house is still burning and we continue to look in the other direction… except at the CIRP LCE Conferences! The LCE 2020 conference focuses on the role that engineering must play in the achievement of the sustainable future that people wish.
We must shift the focus of life cycle engineering from eco-efficient technologies to technologies, organisations and behaviours that meet the 2030 development goals (United Nations) and the absolute sustainability. New techniques and concepts like circular economy and artificial intelligence have a great potential for sustainability but still need to prove their capacity to transform products, usages and industrial processes. A special attention is for educational issues.
Daniel Brissaud, Professor
Conference Chair
The conference is intended to foster the exchange of visions, recent developments, and research findings in the field of life cycle engineering at an international level. Papers are invited from prospective authors from industry, universities, and research institutions. Contributions in the form of case studies and practices, as well as theoretical and experimental research, are encouraged. Topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following.
- Sustainable manufacturing – efficiency and effectiveness
- Sustainable technologies for manufacturing
- Sustainable production systems and services
- Sustainability of smart products
- Circular economy
- Life cycle engineering and management
- Life cycle engineering education and training
- Advanced industrial sustainability
- Sustainable consumption and production
- Eco-design methodes and eco-designed products
- Environmental and social analysis and assessment