Safe and Sustainable Value Creation by Design Proceedings of the 21st Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing (GCSM 2025) September 10–12, 2025, Bologna, Italy, Volume 2

Ecologically interlinked manufacturing districts – a method for generating local synergies to increase sustainable value creation.- Technical and organisational readiness framework for facilitating development of sustainable manufacturing processes by urban and creative factories.- A KPI-Based Approach to Evaluating Sustainable Land Use and Adaptable Infrastructure in Industrial Production Sites.- Towards a more sustainable manufacturing environment: A first proposal on SDG-based design guidelines for planning an assembly line.- Opportunity Costs in Production Full Cost Accounting: A Systematic Literature Review.- Intralogistic Value Creation – Potential of Mobile Assembly Processes.- Impact of Path Planning on Energy Use and Emissions in Four Way Shuttle Storage Systems.- Direct and indirect electrification concepts based on induction heating for the substitution of gas-intensive production processes.- Using Stable Diffusion based Augmentation for Visual Wear Classification in Remanufacturing.- Sustainability Assessment of End-of-Life Strategies for PEM Fuel Cells.- Analysis of Local Mitigation Strategies for Material Procurement Risks for Sustainable and Resilient Manufacturing: A Simulation-based Approach for Linear and Non-linear Production Layouts.- Digitization in Serial Timber Construction Manufacturing: A Model-Based Approach for Sustainable and Efficient Production.- The path to a more efficient circular economy by integrating deep learning into robotic sorting systems.- Slow manufacturing: its conceptualisation, application and research agenda.- Industry 5.0-oriented training interventions: sustainability and pillars in the case of electronics.- Development of a Chatbot for ESG reporting for micro small and medium-scale enterprises.- Solid-State Upcycling of Recovered Aluminum Using Friction Extrusion and AFSD Technologies.- Ecodesign Approaches for Mechanical Component Development at the University of Bologna Motorsport Team.- Metal hydride test bench development for investigation of sustainable and efficient hydrogen storage.- Gap Analysis of Documentation Template for Open Source Hardware and Adoption in Documentation Workflows with Large Language Models.