Sustainability in Engineering Design

Introduction

Anthony Johnson,    University of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Andrew Gibson,    Segelocum Ltd, Retford, Nottinghamshire, West Yorkshire

Traditionally, engineering designers designed and manufacturing engineers manufactured the design. In the late 1950s, engineer and statistician Genichi Taguchi suggested that quality should be placed in the hands of the designer. This revelation prompted a design and manufacturing revolution and was the catalyst that drove production techniques into quality mass production. Though production techniques had been pioneered by inventors and industrialists such as Samuel Colt and Henry Ford, quality of manufacture still largely remained the domain of craftsmen and artisans to produce and ...