Abstract
Radical technological innovations are emerging in response to environmental, economic and geopolitical pressures. This affects how we design and manufacture new solutions. Additive manufacturing, one of the enabling technologies of the digital transition, can support more-sustainable manufacturing processes if developed through a system-level approach. In this Perspective, we adopt such an approach: we propose to use established sustainable design methods to innovate additive manufacturing systems and to consider how to make additive manufacturing an enabler of sustainable design in combination with conventional manufacturing. We then discuss how to implement our vision to enable additive manufacturing for sustainability.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 698-705 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Nature Sustainability |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2024 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy -
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Global and Planetary Change
- Food Science
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Ecology
- Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
- Urban Studies
- Nature and Landscape Conservation
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
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