• structure, and combine the concepts, theories, methods, and models of the course.
• identify relevant problems within management of product and service processes
• understand core concepts of industrial and commercial activities so that they are able to design sustainable manufacturing and service operations
• understand the notion of sustainable as an integrating concept
• understand how the emerging concept of sustainable development can be related to the product and service processes
• develop written work that relies upon theory and evidence
• demonstrate an understanding of the challenges and tensions that are likely to be encountered and how these can be overcome.

The use of the term sustainable development is a starting point for broader examination of economics, environmental impact and development, and is even becoming more acceptable now in specialized disciplines giving, rise to notion like sustainability industry. Sustainable development has a long history in the natural sciences and field of environmentalism.

Product manufacturing tends to produce products with specific criteria: design qualities and manufacturing qualities. Design quality is related to the values that the customers require for the product. Moreover, manufacturing qualities is used to incorporate desire design qualities in the product and service. In order to satisfy these two criteria the manufacture has to evaluate whether or not the products achieve the product design that has been assigned for that specific product. Certain parts and material of the products can be reused or recycled, while the remainder is disposed of. The purpose is to motivate industries to include environmental considerations to document environmental sustainability improvements in their products and services. The course will provide the students with principles, theories and concrete methods to address the challenge above. The course does not concrete a single issue, but discusses various themes and problems involving strategies as well as operational managerial activities such as:

• Supply Chain Management
• Sustainable development
• Social and economic contributions
• Environmental Sustainability
• Process
• Product Platform
• Product Life Cycle
• Product and Service Design
• Modularity

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