AI: Driving Sustainability in Manufacturing

Sustainability in manufacturing and the supply chain is important for many reasons. Today, this linear economy of take-make-waste, where we see material flow directly from resource extraction through manufacturing processes to landfills, has reached its capacity. And quite frankly, sustainability is often good for business and for the bottomline.

In my book, Sustainable in a Circular World, I wrote about the change I saw coming, saying, corporate sustainability is on the rise within companies and it is driving significant cultural change within organizations and individuals. We are witnessing it in terms of how actions and behaviors are creating corporate transformation and its social and environmental impact. This metamorphosis is pushing companies and people to make significant transformation from now until 2030.

Defining Sustainability in Manufacturing

In my book, I point to Merriam-Webster’s definition of sustainability as relating to or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so ...