TY - GEN AU - Muthu, Subramanian Senthilkannan AU - Savalani, Monica Mahesh TI - Handbook of Sustainability in Additive Manufacturing: Vol. 2 SN - 9789811092077 U1 - 670 MUT PY - 2016/// CY - Singapore PB - Springer KW - Environmental Engineering KW - Production Management KW - Manufacturing processes--Environmental aspects KW - Industrial engineering N2 - This book highlights the sustainability aspects of additive manufacturing (AM) in two separate volumes. It describes the details of this technology and its implications on the entire product life cycle sustainability, as well as embedded carbon and the further research needed to move this technology towards sustainable, mainstream production. Sustainability is not new for any area of industry, including additive manufacturing, and there are currently a number of ongoing research projects, both in industry and in academic institutions, that are investigating sustainability, embedded carbon and research activities which would need to be done in the future to move this technology towards sustainable mainstream production ER -