15th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing held in Haifa, Israel on 25th – 27th September, 2017
Technische Universität Berlin and Technion Haifa has jointly organize the 15th GCSM in Haifa, Israel. This conference is sponsored by the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP, www.cirp.net). GCSM serves as a forum for academics, researchers, and practitioners from international universities, research institutes and industrial companies working on topics related to sustainable manufacturing. It offers keynote speeches, panel discussions and parallel session presentations.
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Topics
- Adequate environment for entrepreneurial initiative
- Awareness for sustainability
- Education, learning and qualification for sustainable engineering
- Global and regional product development
- Product design for resource efficiency and effectiveness
- Design for manufacturing respecting human factors and environmental aspects
- Innovative Design, product engineering and new materials
- Manufacturing processes, tools and equipment
- Energy and Resource Efficiency
- Resource utilization and waste reduction
- Maintenance, service, repair and overhaul
- Remanufacturing, reuse and recycling
- Water resource management
- Information and communication technologies for sustainability
- Product lifecycle, information and knowledge management
- Green supply chain and transportation
- Automotive Industry; manufacturing, usage and environment
- Additive manufacturing
- Strategies and business models for sustainable development
- Value creation by sustainable manufacturing
- Adequate environments for entrepreneurial initiatives
- Nano technologies and sustainability assessment
Submit Abstract –
Paper
All the accepted papers will be published by Elsevier in the electronic journal Procedia Manufacturing accessible via ScienceDirect. Procedia Manufacturing is an open access journal publishing high quality conference proceedings in the field of manufacturing engineering, including but not limited to manufacturing processes, systems and emerging topics in the broad field of manufacturing.
To submit your abstract/paper, please go to the submission website by clicking here. Please use the template guidelines to prepare your full paper by clicking here (MS Word) or here (LaTeX). The abstract should be approximately 1,000 characters with spaces. Each paper should consist of a minimum of 3 pages and a maximum of 8 pages.
Papers submitted to CIRP sponsored conferences shall all follow the general guidelines outlined in the Guide for authors here. Please follow the instructions carefully. Papers not written according to instructions will be rejected.
The submitted papers will be evaluated by the conference scientific committee according to the CIRP evaluation criteria.
Extended version of selected papers can be recommended for publication in related journals.
Contact
Us

Mustafa Severengiz, M. Sc.
(Conference Organization)
Technische Universität Berlin
Assembly Technology and Factory Management
Pascalstr. 8-9
10587 Berlin – Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)30 / 314-25549
Fax: +49 (0)30 / 314-22759
Office PTZ 333
E-Mail: gcsm@mf.tu-berlin.de
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International Program
Committee
Name | University | Country |
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Prof. I.S. Jawahir | University of Kentucky | USA |
Prof. Reuven Katz | Technion | Israel |
Prof. Yoram Koren | University of Michigan | USA |
Prof. Gideon Levy | Institute for Rapid Product Development | Switzerland |
Prof. Isam Sabbah | ORT Braude Academic College of Engineering | Israel |
International Scientific
Committee
Name | University | Country |
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Dr. Samy Abu Salih | Braude | Israel |
Prof. Samir Afifi | Islamic University of Gaza | Palestine Authority |
Prof. Sung-Hoon Ahn | School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | Korea |
Prof. Tülin Aktin | Istanbul Kültür Üniversitesi | Turkey |
Prof. Basel Alsayyed | United Arab Emirates University | United Arab Emirates |
Prof. Yusuf Altinas | University of British Columbia | Canada |
Prof. Jan Christian Aurich | Technische Universität Kaiserslautern | Germany |
Dr. Karim Azharul | Queensland University of Technology | Australia |
Prof. Dirk Bähre | Universität des Saarlandes | Germany |
Prof. Marek Balazinski | Ecole Polytechnique Montreal | Canada |
Prof. Paulo Jorge da Silva Bártolo | University of Manchester | UK |
Prof. Alain Bernard | Ecole Centrale de Nantes | France |
Prof. Wahidul Biswas | Curtin University | Australia |
Prof. Friedrich Bleicher | Technische Universität Wien | Austria |
Prof. Milton Borsato | Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná | Brazil |
Prof. Konstantinos-D. Bouzakis | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | Greece |
Prof. Ekkard Brinksmeier | Universität Bremen | Germany |
Prof. Erhan Budak | Sabanci University | Turkey |
Prof. Peter Butala | Univerza v Ljubljani | Slovenia |
Prof. Giampaolo Campana | Università di Bologna | Italy |
Prof. George Chryssolouris | University of Patras | Greece |
Prof. Jung-Hoon Chun | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | USA |
Dr. Barbara Cimatti | Università di Bologna | Italy |
Prof. Laszlo Cser | Corvinus University of Budapest | Hungary |
Prof. Pedro Filipe Cunha | Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Sebutal | Portugal |
Prof. Oliver Damm | Stellenbosch University | South Africa |
Prof. Dimitri Dimitrov | Stellenbosch University | South Africa |
Dr. Matthew Doolan | Australian National University | Australia |
Prof. Welf-Guntram Drossel | Fraunhofer IWU | Germany |
Prof. Hoda Elmaraghy | University of Windsor | Canada |
Prof. Waguih Elmaraghy | University of Windsor | Canada |
Prof. Steve Evans | University of Cambridge | UK |
Prof. Fengzhou Fang | Tianjin University | China |
Prof. Matthias Finkbeiner | Technische Universität Berlin | Germany |
Prof. Anath Fischer | Technion | Israel |
Prof. C. J. Neels Fourie | Stellenbosch University | South Africa |
Prof. Thomas Gries | RWTH Aachen | Germany |
Prof. Wit Grzesik | Technical University of Opole | Poland |
Prof. Peihua Gu | University of Calgary | Canada |
Aşkıner Güngör | Pamukkale Üniversitesi | Germany |
Prof. Yuebin Guo | University of Alabama | USA |
Prof. Yoram Halevi | Technion | Israel |
Prof. Christoph Herrmann | Technische Universität Braunschweig | Germany |
Prof. I. S. Jawahir | University of Kentucky | USA |
Prof. Krzysztof Jemielniak | Warsaw University of Technology | Poland |
Prof. Jacob Jeswiet | Queen’s University | Canda |
Prof. Roland Jochem | Technische Universität Berlin | Germany |
Prof. Leo Joskowicz | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel |
Prof. Francesco Jovane | Politecnico di Milano | Italy |
Prof. Sami Kara | The University of New South Wales | Australia |
Prof. Yigit Karpat | Bilkent University | Turkey |
Prof. Reuven Katz | Technion | Israel |
Prof. Engin Kılıç | Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi | Turkey |
Prof. Fritz Klocke | RWTH Aachen | Germany |
Prof. Holger Kohl | Technische Universität Berlin | Germany |
Prof. Yoram Koren | University of Michigan | USA |
Dr. Philip Koshy | McMaster University | Canada |
Prof. Peter Krajnik | Univerza v Ljubljani | Slovenia |
Prof. Jörg Krüger | Technische Universität Berlin | Germany |
Prof. Dirk Landgrebe | Fraunhofer IWU | Germany |
Prof. Gisela Lanza | Karlsruher Institut für Technologie | Germany |
Prof. Bert Lauwers | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Belgium |
Prof. Ehud Lenz | Technion | Israel |
Prof. Gideon N. Levy | Institute for Rapid Product Development | Switzerland |
Prof. Barbara Linke | University of California, Davis | USA |
Prof. Don A. Lucca | Oklahoma State University | USA |
Prof. Jürgen Mallon | Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Kiel | Germany |
Prof. Shreyes Melkote | George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering | USA |
Prof. Lazlo Monostori | Hungarian Academy of Sciences | Hungary |
Dr. Khumbulani Mpofu | Tswane University of Technology | South Africa |
Dr. Rachid M’Saoubi | The University of Nottingham | UK |
Dr. Nabil Nasr | Rochester Institute of Technology | USA |
Prof. Andrew Nee Yeh Ching | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
Prof. Reimund Neugebauer | Technischen Universität Chemnitz | Germany |
Prof. Stephen Thomas Newman | University of Bath | UK |
Prof. João Fernando G. de Oliveira | Universidade de São Paulo | Brazil |
Prof. Aldo Roberto Ometto | Universidade de São Paulo | Brazil |
Dr. Tiaan Oosthuizen | Stellenbosch University | South Africa |
Prof. Vladimir Portman | Ben Gurion University of the Negev | Israel |
Prof. Matthias Putz | Technische Universität Chemnitz | Germany |
Prof. Shahin Rahimifard | Loughborough University | UK |
Prof. Mustafizur Rahman | Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) | Singapore |
Prof. Henrique Rozenfeld | Universidade de São Paulo | Brazil |
Prof. Marco Santochi | Università di Pisa | Italy |
Prof. Robert Schmitt | RWTH Aachen | Germany |
Prof. Günther Schuh | RWTH Aachen | Germany |
Prof. Günther Seliger | Technische Universität Berlin | Germany |
Prof. Luca Settineri | Politecnico Di Torino | Italy |
Prof. Moshe Shpitalni | Technion | Israel |
Prof. Wilfried Sihn | Technische Universität Wien | Austria |
Prof. Rikard Söderberg | Chalmers University of Technology | Sweden |
Prof. Rainer Stark | Technische Universität Berlin | Germany |
Prof. Rolf Steinhilper | Universität Bayreuth | Germany |
Prof. Frank Straube | Technische Universität Berlin | Germany |
Prof. John W. Sutherland | Purdue University | USA |
Prof. Shozo Takata | Waseda University | Japan |
Prof. Erman Tekkaya | Technische Universität Dortmund | Germany |
Prof. Roberto Teti | Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II | Italy |
Prof. Tullio Antonio Maria Tolio | Politecnico di Milano | Italy |
Prof. Tetsuo Tomiyama | Cranfield University | UK |
Prof. Mitchell M. Tseng | Feng Chia University | Taiwan |
Prof. Eckart Uhlmann | Technische Universität Berlin | Germany |
Prof. Hendrik van Brussel | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Belgium |
Prof. Fred J.A.M. van Houten | Universiteit Twente | Netherlands |
Prof. Konrad Wegener | ETH Zürich | Switzerland |
Prof. Rafi Wertheim | Technische Univerität Chemnitz | Germany |
Prof. Alon Wolf | Technion | Israel |
Prof. Tetsuo Yamada | University of Electro-Communications | Japan |
Dr. Hitomi Yamaguchi | University of Florida | USA |