scholarly journals Benchmarking of sustainability to assess practices and performances of the management of the end of life cycle of electronic products: a study of Brazilian manufacturing companies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucilene Gonçalves da Costa ◽  
João Carlos Espíndola Ferreira ◽  
Vikas Kumar ◽  
Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Product Life ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Use Phase ◽  
And Performance

Abstract The relentless pursuit of lower production costs causes companies to invest in more efficient production systems so that they can remain economically competitive, while the actions focusing on more sustainable operations from an environmental point of view are usually performed to meet the political government regulating environmental control. However, it is common for companies to focus their efforts to minimize the environmental impacts at an early stage of the product life cycle, neglecting sustainability management in the post-use phase. Given the context, this study seeks to develop sustainability indicators that can be used by the electronics industry to assess the level of practice and performance during production that are related to product recovery after the use phase, in order to better understand how companies are acting to reduce the environmental impacts of their products at the end of their life cycle. Initially, critical success factors related to environmental management of the product’s end-of-life are obtained. Then, some of those critical success factors are prioritized, giving rise to the indicators of sustainability used in the benchmarking method. Benchmarking was performed in electronics Brazilian companies, and the data was obtained by means of a questionnaire and interviews. It is concluded from the results that the proposed indicators are suitable for measuring the levels of practices and performance of the participant companies in environmental management at the end of the product life cycle as the indicators were able to portray faithfully the reality of each company. Graphic abstract Practices and performances in the studied Brazilian companies

Economic Evaluation of Remanufacturing End-of-Life Electromechanical Products

2012 ◽  
Vol 472-475 ◽  
pp. 2670-2673
Author(s):  
Zhao Long Xu ◽  
Su Mei Xiao ◽  
Yu Qiang Shi
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Economic Evaluation ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Waste Products ◽  
Product Life ◽  
Electromechanical Products ◽  
Economic Evaluation Model

With the shortening of product life cycle, and the constant increasing of End-of-life Electromechanical Products, the processing of waste products appears especially important and urgent. This paper, based on an existing recycle model, has established an economic evaluation model of end-of-life electromechanical products. Based on the collection of a large amount of data and tests, the research and evaluation of the engine has proved it is suitability for remanufacturing.

Modeling the Trade-off Between Security and Performance to Support the Product Life Cycle

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Radek Fujdiak ◽  
Petr Blazek ◽  
Ludovic Apvrille ◽  
Zdenek Martinasek ◽  
Petr Mlynek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Product Life ◽  
And Performance

scholarly journals An experimental study on the improvement of functionality of knitted composite for mattress

2019 ◽  
Vol 290 ◽  
pp. 09001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milena Dinu ◽  
Diana Coman
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Composite Material ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Air Permeability ◽  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
Knitted Fabrics ◽  
Product Life ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Textile Products

The comfort and performance of textile products used as mattress covers is analyzed in terms of physical characteristics, so air permeability and whiteness are investigated for different knitted assemblies with different compositions. The knitted system analyzed consists of two knitted surfaces assembled by a filling thread, finally obtaining a consistent composite material. Several samples of different fibrous composition were tested, analyzing their behavior during future use. A connection has been experienced between permeability, thickness, and whiteness of composites knitted of cotton, bamboo, wool, viscose and polyester. Samples tested for air permeability were tested face up and face down, using Static Air Permeability Tester. The whiteness of the knitted samples was checked using the Reflection Spectrophotometer trough the method that defines white and yellow indices. Samples containing bamboo and wool blended polyester have higher yellow markings. Thus, it may be recommended that future composite mattress knitted fabrics be treated with anti-aging to extend the product life cycle, as well as other friction wear-related experiments.

scholarly journals Product life cycle assessment (LCA) in the environmental engineering and management aspects

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suresh Aluvihara ◽  
Jagath Kulathilaka
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Management System ◽  
Inventory Analysis ◽  
Product Life ◽  
Key Steps ◽  
Goal And Scope

Environmental pollution is an ever found crux with the industrialized world although able to prevent or minimize the environmental pollution through some proper environmental management system. Product life cycle assessment (LCA) is a method of environmental assessment especially for the future plans, products and projects although it is able to assess only the environmental impacts through the product life cycle assessment (LCA). According to the methodology of the implementation of the product life cycle assessment (LCA), it is possible to continue at different stages of the relevant activities as necessary. The implementation of the assessment is done based on four key steps namely as goal and scope definition, inventory analysis, impact assessment and the interpretation. Under this assessment, basically it is expected to prevent the environmental impacts, mitigate the environmental impacts or find a solution for a future problem that relevant with the activity this is proposed.

Case Studies of Product Life Cycle Environmental Impacts for Teaching Engineering Ethics

2019 ◽  
pp. 291-312
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Eckelman ◽  
John Basl ◽  
Christopher Bosso ◽  
Jacqueline A. Isaacs ◽  
Kathleen Eggleson
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Engineering Ethics ◽  
Product Life

scholarly journals An Analysis of Product Life Cycle Orientation in PLM Software Tool Vendors

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-112
Author(s):  
Mary Mathew ◽  
D. Aseri ◽  
R. Isaac
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Product Life ◽  
Financial Investment ◽  
Precise Knowledge ◽  
The Right ◽  
Lifecycle Management

A challenge in implementation of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tools is the selection of the right vendor and the solution. Implementing PLM entails huge financial investment on the part of the user and hence precise knowledge as to where each tool can be applied is a must. In this paper, seven PLM tool vendors are compared on their definitions of PLM and also their product offerings in different Product Life Cycle (PLC) phases, including the extreme ends of PLC viz. R&D and end-of-life phase, which are usually ignored. An integrated PLC model is developed and the tools are then mapped onto different phases of PLC. Vendors are compared based on number of tools offered in different PLC phases. The results reveal an uneven distribution in the applicability of various tools, with majority of them focusing on the product development phase and an astonishingly low number on the R&D and end-of-life phases.

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