ENGINEERING ECONOMIC DECISION ISSUES IN ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING

1999 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
DEBORAH L. THURSTON
Keyword(s):  
Environmentally Conscious ◽  
Economic Decision ◽  
Design And Manufacturing ◽  
Environmentally Conscious Design

Mini Special Issue on Design and Manufacturing for Environmental Sustainability

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 677-677
Author(s):  
Yasushi Umeda ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Tool ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Optimization Problems ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Environmentally Conscious ◽  
Motion Extraction ◽  
Design And Manufacturing ◽  
Distributed Energy Generation ◽  
Environmentally Conscious Design

As the third special issue on Design and Manufacturing for Environmental Sustainability for IJAT, this issue focuses on design and manufacturing theories and methodologies for achieving environmental sustainability and the topic of the special issue seems to be becoming established in this journal. This special issue contains six articles consisting of a wide variety of rather novel topics emerging in the domain of design and manufacturing for environmental sustainability. The first three deal with design problem in the broader sense: designing of system of systems taking distributed energy generation systems, upgradable design problems, and selection problem of end-of-life products recovery options integrated from the view of environmental load and cost. The last three papers deal with manufacturing problems in the broader sense – motion extraction problems for disassembly automation, machine tool energy efficiency, and optimization problems related to machine tool operating conditions for increasing environmental sustainability. Some papers, revised and extended at the editor’s request, were presented originally at EcoDesign 2015, the ninth international symposium on environmentally conscious design and inverse manufacturing, held in Tokyo, Japan, 2015. The editor thanks the authors and reviewers for their comprehensive efforts in making this special issue possible and hopes these articles will encourage further research on design and manufacturing for environmental sustainability.

OVERVIEW OF MANUFACTURING STRATEGY IN JAPAN

1996 ◽  
Vol 03 (03) ◽  
pp. 187-202
Author(s):  
JAY LEE
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Semiconductor Industry ◽  
Manufacturing Strategy ◽  
Environmentally Conscious ◽  
Substantial Impact ◽  
The Past ◽  
Design And Manufacturing ◽  
The Status ◽  
Manufacturing Technologies ◽  
Environmentally Conscious Design

Japan has been a world leader in manufacturing in the past several decades. Undoubtedly, this leadership will persist well into the 21st century. It is, therefore, very important to understand the status of Japan's manufacturing technologies as well as its projected manufacturing strategies for the future, especially those technologies which would generate substantial impact on the manufacturing industries in the next five years. This paper highlights current Japanese manufacturing strategies. Examples on several major industries including the industrial machinery industry, the semiconductor industry, and the automotive industry will be given. In addition, major initiatives on emerging technologies, including micromachine, environmentally conscious design and manufacturing, and manufacturing globalization support are described.

Integrating I-DEAS With Remanufacturing and Assemblability Assessments

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uma-Sankar Kalyan-Seshu ◽  
Bert Bras
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Environmentally Conscious ◽  
Input Information ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
Specific Objective ◽  
Design And Manufacturing ◽  
Environmentally Conscious Design ◽  
Effective Design

Abstract A growing concern about the environment, and especially about waste and landfill, has motivated research into environmentally conscious design and manufacturing approaches. This has placed new burdens on designers. In order to aid designers in their new tasks, one of our objectives is to minimize the gathering of information and maximize the utility of existing design information. In the research discussed in this paper, the specific objective is to enable the quantification and enhancement of product remanufacturability. Guidelines for integrating some of the commercially available CAD packages (like I-DEAS, Pro/ENGINEER, CATIA) to remanufacturing assessments, and ways to use the input information to these assessments for making other assessments (like assemblability) are developed. A number of case studies are given to illustrate the approach. Our long term goal is to identify the minimum amount of information needed to do effective design for the life-cycle.

Teaching Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing at the Undergraduate Level: A Georgia Tech Perspective

Manufacturing ◽  
2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bert Bras
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Environmentally Conscious ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Curricular Development ◽  
Current Implementation ◽  
Design And Manufacturing ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Environmentally Conscious Design ◽  
Design And Manufacture

In this paper, an overview is given of the history and current implementation of an undergraduate Mechanical Engineering course titled “ME 4171 - Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing” at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This course was developed in late 1993 and has been taught every year since as an elective in Mechanical Engineering. The course is designed to give the students an opportunity to learn about environmentally conscious design and manufacture, the growing national and international efforts in reducing the environmental impact of products, and how environmental considerations affect the design’s technical, economical and quality requirements, and vice versa. In this paper, the philosophy behind the course, its objectives and outcomes, and its structure are discussed. The rationale for the course content is given in context of national and international developments in the area. Recommendations for curricular development are also provided.

Special Issue on Design and Manufacturing for Environmental Sustainability

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 625-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasushi Umeda
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Sustainable Manufacturing ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Resource Scarcity ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Environmentally Conscious ◽  
Responsible Investment ◽  
Design And Manufacturing ◽  
Environmentally Conscious Design

This issue focuses on design and manufacturing theories and methodologies aimed at achieving environmental sustainability. It has been two decades since environmental sustainability and related issues have been discussed as main issues in design and manufacturing. In these 20 years, theories and methodologies have been developed on environmentally conscious design, including the design of disassembly and life cycle assessment, and manufacturing techniques for saving energy and resources and low emission. In spite of these efforts, the seriousness of the environmental issues, e.g., global warming, is getting harder and harder and new issues continuously arise. It has gradually been recognized that essential problems reside within the manufacturing industry structure and the center of the manufacturing industry has shifted from developed countries such as Japan and US to developing countries with accelerating mass production and mass consumption. Based on this recognition, this special issues deals with rather novel topics emerging in the domain of design and manufacturing for environmental sustainability. The first five papers provide a global scope on the relationship between environmental sustainability and manufacturing industry, including global energy consumption patterns, manufacturing industry scenario writing, informative reviews on lean remanufacturing, urban mining, and education on resource scarcity. The second three papers focus on human recognition and behavior – emerging topics in this domain – including socially responsible investment, customer choice, and the routing of electric vehicles. The last five papers propose new methods or technologies of environmentally conscious design and sustainable manufacturing, including ecobusiness design, electric vehicle heating systems, and the sustainability evaluation of manufacturing processes. Some papers, revised and extended in response to the editor’s invitations, were originally presented at EcoDesign 2013: 8th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing (Jeju, Korea). The editor sincerely thanks the authors and reviewers for their devoted work in making this special issue possible. We hope that these articles will encourage further research on design and manufacturing for environmental sustainability.

Implications of Modularity on Product Design for the Life Cycle

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick J. Newcomb ◽  
Bert Bras ◽  
David W. Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Environmentally Conscious ◽  
Normal Product ◽  
Center Console ◽  
Design And Manufacturing ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Environmentally Conscious Design ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Configuration Information

Abstract Growing concern for the environment has spurred interest in environmentally conscious design and manufacturing. The concept of Design for the Life Cycle encompasses all aspects of a product’s life cycle from initial conceptual design, through normal product use, to the eventual disposal of the product. A product’s architecture, determined during the configuration design stage, plays a large role in determining the product’s life cycle characteristics. In this paper, modularity of product architectures with respect to life cycle concerns, not just product functionality and structure, is defined and applied in the analysis of architecture characteristics. A principal hypothesis underlying this work is that high degree of life cycle modularity can be beneficial across all viewpoints of interest because all interested people will view the product similarly and consistently. An architecture decomposition algorithm from the literature is adopted for partitioning architectures into modules from each life cycle viewpoint. Two measures of modularity are proposed: one that measures module correspondence between several viewpoints, and another that measures coupling between modules. The algorithm and measures are applied to the analysis and redesign of an automotive center console. Results of applying the algorithm and measures accurately reflected our intuitive understanding of the original center console design and predicted the results of our redesign. Furthermore, these measures incorporate only configuration information of the product; hence, can be used before detailed design stages.

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