Keynotes -- Automotive Life Cycle Engineering -- Automotive Life Cycle Engineering - Recycling -- Life Cycle Design - Methods and Tools -- Life Cycle Design - Selected Applications -- Sustainability in Manufacturing -- Sustainability in Manufacturing - Energy Efficiency in Machine Tools -- Sustainability in Manufacturing - Energy Efficiency in Process Chains -- Sustainability in Manufacturing - Methods and Tools for Energy Efficiency -- Sustainability in Manufacturing - Selected Applications -- End of Life Management - Reuse and Remanufacturing -- End of Life Management - Selected Applications -- Information and Knowledge Management -- Life Cycle Assessment - Methods and Tools -- Life Cycle Assessment - Selected Applications -- Life Cycle Costing -- Life Cycle Costing - Modelling.

The 18th CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) 2011 continues a long tradition of scientific meetings focusing on the exchange of industrial and academic knowledge and experiences in life cycle assessment, product development, sustainable manufacturing and end-of-life-management. The theme “Glocalized Solutions for Sustainability in Manufacturing” addresses the need for engineers to develop solutions which have the potential to address global challenges by providing products, services and processes taking into account local capabilities and constraints to achieve an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable society in a global perspective. Glocalized Solutions for Sustainability in Manufacturing do not only involve products or services that are changed for a local market by simple substitution or the omitting of functions. Products and services need to be addressed that ensure a high standard of living everywhere. Resources required for manufacturing and use of such products are limited and not evenly distributed in the world. Locally available resources, local capabilities as well as local constraints have to be drivers for product- and process innovations with respect to the entire life cycle. The 18th CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) 2011 serves as a platform for the discussion of the resulting challenges and the collaborative development of new scientific ideas.