Cecília M.V.B. Almeida

TL;DR: Smart manufacturing has received increased attention from academia and industry in recent years, as it provides competitive advantage for manufacturing companies making industry more efficient and more efficient as discussed by the authors. But, the benefits of smart manufacturing are limited.

TL;DR: The Journal of Cleaner Production (JCP) as discussed by the authors is based upon papers presented at the 1st International Workshop Advances in Cleaner production (CP) held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2007.

TL;DR: Ternary diagrams are presented as graphic tools to assist environmental accounting and environmental decision-making based on emergy analysis [Odum HT. 1996] as discussed by the authors, and they are used to compare processes and systems with and without ecosystem services, to evaluate improvements and to follow the system performance over time.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed an approach based on emergy as a tool to assist in product design, which may be inserted into the conventional design methodology to facilitate in the selection of materials and processes as well as in the actual design of the products.

TL;DR: A special volume of the Journal of Cleaner Production was built principally upon articles submitted for the 5th International Workshop Advances in Cleaner production held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2015.