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Welcome Letters

IDETC/CIE

21ST DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURING AND THE LIFE CYCLE CONFERENCE (DFMLC)
The Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Committee in the Design Summers, Karl Haapala, Yayue Pan, Yong Chen, Marcos Esterman, Peter
Engineering Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Sandborn, Deborah Thurston, Sara Behdad, Qing Jin Peng, Gul Kremer,
welcomes IDETC participants to the 21st Annual Design for Manufacturing Yaoyao Zhao, Cassandra Telenko, and Derrick Tate. Your participation and
and the Life Cycle (DFMLC) Conference. The ASME Design for Manufac- hard work have made DFMLC a successful conference!
turing and the Life Cycle Conference is the main international forum for
the exchange of technical and scientific information on the theory and
On Wednesday morning, two DFMLC sessions will feature an NSF-spon-
practice of Integrated Product and Process Development, Sustainable
sored workshop on proposal writing for senior PhD students and early
Design and Manufacturing, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and
career researchers. On Tuesday afternoon, the Kos Ishii-Toshiba and best
Design for X (DFX) Methods. This conference provides a forum for
paper awards will be presented during the DFMLC technical committee
researchers, practitioners, and educators from academia, government
meeting. One panel session will be on Design for Circular Economy on
organizations, and industry to share their latest results and challenges
Tuesday morning.
with the research community.
We invite the IDETC community to attend the awards ceremony to
We are happy to report that this conference continues to feature many new
congratulate the award recipients and to participate in the technical
and exciting results and methods to be presented as part of the confer-
committee meeting.
ence technical sessions. This year’s DFMLC conference includes 54
technical papers in 12 sessions, as well as one panel session, as follows:
• Integrated Product and Process Development We welcome you to the 21st Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle
Conference!
• Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (3 sessions)
• Life Cycle Decision Making

• Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (2 sessions)
• Design for Sustainable Additive Manufacturing (2 sessions)

• Design for Quality, Reliability, and Cost

• Design of Sustainable Energy Systems
• Engineering for Global Development Romain Farel Qing Wang
• Design for the Circular Economy (1 panel session) Conference Chair Program Chair
PS2E University
Durham
We would like to thank all the authors for submitting papers, the paper Jouy-en-Josas, Province, France United Kingdom
reviewers for sharing their time and expertise, and the session chairs/
romain.farel@institut-ps2e.com qing.wang@durham.ac.uk
co-chairs for their participation. Special thanks go to the DFMLC Special
Session Chair, Sara Behdad, and the paper review coordinators/co-coordi- Tel: +33 (0)1 39 07 22 65 Tel: +44 (0)1 91 334 2381
nators for managing the papers through the review process: Bernard Fax: +33 (0)1 36 07 22 00 Fax: +44 (0)1 91 334 2408
Yannou, William Bernstein, Jeremy Rickli, Fu Zhao, Jun-Ki Choi, Joshua

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