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This is an open access book. It gathers the second volume of the proceedings of the 21st Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing, held on September 10–12, 2025, in Bologna, Italy. With a focus on Safe and Sustainable Value Creation by Design, the chapters in this book report on advances relating to sustainable supply chain, remanufacturing and eco-design, and sustainability assessment. They also cover applications of digitalization and artificial intelligence to improve manufacturing efficiency and reducing its environmental impact, and in sustainable education and training. All in all, they offer extensive and timely information for both researchers and professionals in the field of manufacturing and business development.

This is an open access book. It gathers the first volume of the proceedings of the 21st Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing, held on September 10–12, 2025, in Bologna, Italy. With a focus on Safe and Sustainable Value Creation by Design, the chapters in this book report on strategies towards the sustainable transformation of industry.  They cover applications of Lean Six Sigma, circularity evaluation, and methods for footprint calculations. They discuss new design approaches and advances in additive manufacturing and materials to improve safety and sustainability. All in all, they offer extensive and timely information for both researchers and professionals in the field of manufacturing and business development.

This volume includes papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (SDM-17) held in Bologna, Italy, in April 2017. The conference covered a wide range of topics from cutting-edge sustainable product design and service innovation, sustainable processes and technology for the manufacturing of sustainable products, sustainable manufacturing systems and enterprises, decision support for sustainability, and the study of the societal impact of sustainability including research for circular economy. Application areas are wide and varied, and the book provides an excellent overview of the latest research and development in the area of Sustainable Design and Manufacturing.