"Skills Development for Sustainable Manufacturing" ed. by Christianah Olakitan Ijagbemi and Harold Moody Campbell

This volume presents the advantage of high-quality products and can as well address long-term employment concerns through job creation. It is crucial to ensuring an efficient transition to a competitive economy by matching supply and demand for key skills.

Globally, manufacturing facilities have taken a new turn with a mix of advanced robotics to fully unify production systems. Today's era of manufacturing has embraced smart manufacturing techniques by delving into intelligent manufacturing system of advances in robotics, controllers, sensors, and machine learning giving room for every aspect of the plant to be constantly accessible, monitored, controlled, redesigned, and adapted for required adjustments.

A number of factors ranging from green innovation, climate change, advances in technology, and global economic downturn are driving the need for a competitive and sustainable manufacturing value chain. The complexity of today's factories calls for new and existing workers to up-skill in order to influence design changes and production efficiency toward sustainable manufacturing.

Contents
1 Sustainable Solid Waste Recycling
2 Sustainable Power Technology: A Viable Sustainable Energy Solution
3 Sustainable Maintenance Practices and Skills for Competitive Production System
4 Interventions to Skills Development in the Automotive Manufacturing Sector of South Africa
5 Designing and Developing New VET Curricula to Address Skills Gaps in the Aeronautics Industry