The University of California-Berkeley has been center stage for new ideas, breakthroughs and radical changes for decades. Today, it’s leading the green manufacturing revolution. Cal Berkeley is home to the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Sustainability (LMAS).
“Sustainable manufacturing is the natural next step in the evolution of manufacturing philosophies,” says David Dornfeld, Ph.D., LMAS director and chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. “We can trace the trend toward efficiency and waste to the concept of lean manufacturing that defined any expense that did not add value to the customer as ‘waste.’