Systematic Life Cycle Design for Sustainable Product Development

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Lu ◽  
P. Gu
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Economic Evaluations ◽  
Business Goals ◽  
Sustainable Product Development ◽  
Design Process Model ◽  
Sustainable Product

Sustainable product development (SPD) requires that product design achieves minimum or zero environmental impact, in addition to satisfying the traditional design criteria such as product functionality, quality, features, costs and time to market. Therefore, the environmental evaluations must be incorporated into design stage. In this research, a product design process model was proposed which includes three design requirements, two design tasks, and three comprehensive assessment streams. The functional requirement is derived from the customer needs to reflect the product’s functional purpose; the environmental requirement reflects the society’s needs of protecting natural resources and environment; and the economic requirement is to ensure the company’s basic business goals. Accordingly, SPD aims to simultaneously carry out two tasks of designing products’ physical structures and lifecycle structures. In the assessment phase of product design, three assessment streams, lifecycle quality (LCQ) analysis, lifecycle assessment (LCA), and lifecycle cost (LCC) are conducted with respect to the functional, environmental, and economic evaluations. A Process-Based Analysis concept is proposed for analysis of all three dimensions of LCQ, LCA, and LCC evaluations. Simplified LCA was used for environmental evaluations. The detailed assessment techniques are also developed for effective design evaluations. A case study will be provided to illustrate the methods and models.

scholarly journals INTEGRATED LIFE CYCLE DESIGN APPROACH FOR SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Lu ◽  
P. Gu ◽  
S. Spiewak
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Physical Structure ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Sustainable Product Development ◽  
Design Process Model ◽  
Sustainable Product ◽  
Design Objects ◽  
Lifecycle Design

Sustainable product development (SPD) requires that product design achieve minimal or zero environmental impact, while satisfying other design criteria such as functionality, quality, desirable features, and acceptable cost and time to market. Therefore, environmental evaluations must be incorporated into the design stage. This research is aimed at the development of a new approach to lifecycle design and evaluation. This paper proposes a framework to optimize functional, environmental, and economic (FEE) performance towards sustainable design. Based on the three dimensions of FEE, a systematic lifecycle design process model is proposed, which consists of: the three FEE requirements; two design objects (physical structure and lifecycle structure); and, the FEE evaluation streams of LCQ (functional lifecycle quality), LCA (environmental lifecycle assessment) and LCC (economic lifecycle costing). A new concept, called process-based analysis (PBA) is defined, and used as the base for FEE evaluations.

scholarly journals Computer aided product design tool for sustainable product development

2014 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 362-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliette Heintz ◽  
Jean-Pierre Belaud ◽  
Nishant Pandya ◽  
Moises Teles Dos Santos ◽  
Vincent Gerbaud
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Design Tool ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Sustainable Product Development ◽  
Sustainable Product

Study on UGNX-LCA Integration for Sustainable Product Development

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Tao ◽  
Zhaorui Chen ◽  
Suiran Yu ◽  
Qingjin Peng
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Data Communication ◽  
Feature Model ◽  
Data Migration ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Sustainable Product Development ◽  
Feature Based ◽  
Sustainable Product

It is beneficial to conduct LCA(Life Cycle Assessment) during early stages of product development, as the earlier the environmental problems associated with the product life cycle are discovered, the less costly and more effective the preventing measures are. However, due to the lack of data communication tools between CAD and LCA systems, life cycle data collection during design stage is difficult. This paper presents a feature-based method of UGNX-LCA integration for sustainable product development. A feature-based multi-view life cycle model for integrating product-process-LCI (Life Cycle Inventory) data is developed based on mapping mechanism between engineering domains of product design, process planning and LCA. Data migration from UGNX models to LCA, including UG modeling feature identification, UG-LC(Life Cycle) feature transformation and LC feature model output are realized by embedded integrator. A case study of data migration from UGNX to LCA is presented to demonstrate the proposed approach.

An Evolutionary Game Study on the Sustainable Product Development in Remanufacturing

2013 ◽  
Vol 712-715 ◽  
pp. 2940-2943
Author(s):  
Xian Ling Zong
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Evolutionary Game ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Government Subsidies ◽  
Sustainable Product Development ◽  
Sustainable Product ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Relationship Of

The remanufacturability of product is mainly determined by product design and development strategy. But now most products are designed without considering the remanufacturing and recycling process. It is necessary to study manufacturers product design behavior to find measures to encourage environmentally favorable product design. Sustainable product development behavior of manufacturer population in remanufacturing was studied. An evolutionary game model with government subsidies was set up. And the evolutionary stable strategies were analyzed under different ranges of values of relative parameters. The results indicated that government subsidies were essential to make manufacturers develop sustainable product and large subsidies always worked well. Especially the results showed that small subsidies also worked under certain conditions, which including the initial state of manufacturer population and the relationship of government subsidies and manufacturers revenues under different product development strategies.

Assessment of Remanufacturability Index for an Automotive Product

2019 ◽  
pp. 296-308
Author(s):  
Jayakrishna Kandasamy ◽  
Aravind Raj Sakthivel ◽  
Vimal K. E. K. ◽  
Shama M. S. ◽  
Sultan M. T. H. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Manufacturing Process ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Manufacturing Organizations ◽  
Sustainable Product Development ◽  
Sustainable Product ◽  
Sustainability Principles ◽  
Practical Implications

The increasing competition among the manufacturing organizations and stringent government regulation forces the manufacturing organizations to implement sustainability principles in manufacturing. Sustainability focuses on material, product development, and manufacturing process orientations. End of life (EoL) disposal of the product is very much important in the modern scenario. The remanufacturing is a vital strategy for attaining sustainability in manufacturing. The assessment of remanufacturability of products needs to be done during the design stage so as to provide the manufacturers the guidelines for sustainable product development. In this context, this chapter presents the insights on remanufacturability index assessment for a typical automotive product. The practical implications of the study are also being discussed.

scholarly journals EXPLORING SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES FOR A CIRCULAR ECONOMY THROUGH MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1491-1500
Author(s):  
Anna Diaz Tena ◽  
Josef-Peter Schoeggl ◽  
Tatiana Reyes ◽  
Rupert J. Baumgartner
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Durable Goods ◽  
Morphological Analysis ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Sustainable Product Development ◽  
Sustainable Product ◽  
Criteria For Evaluation

AbstractOver the last years, academic literature has made significant progress on the development of key concepts, identifying circular product typologies, developing assessment methods, and exploring the synergies with manufacturing trends such as digitalisation or environmental management. Nevertheless, less attention has been paid on describing process model changes necessary for the implementation of circular product development. For this reason, this paper presents the circular Sustainable Product Development (cSPD) morphological field, aimed at providing implementation guidance to business and industry. It describes possible reconfigurations of the Sustainable Product Development (SPD) process model to further integrate circularity R-strategies, design scopes, design guidelines, inter- and intra-organisational actors and criteria for evaluation. With this framework, we intend to identify the most defining parameters in the process model and assign them a discrete number of categorical values so that different combinations explain the generation of prevalent circular product typologies in the manufacturing of durable goods.

A Conceptual Taxonomy Study of Sustainable Product Design Processes

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Flores Caldero´n ◽  
Vicente Borja ◽  
Marcelo Lo´pez Parra ◽  
Alejandro C. Rami´rez Reivich
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Sustainable Product Design ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Sustainable Product Development ◽  
Sustainable Product ◽  
High Level

The evolution of methods on sustainable product design has been wining a high level of maturity showing the possibility of being applied to different types of products. This paper shows a comparative study of recent sustainable product design approaches. The study was carried out developing a three level taxonomy to compare the approaches: sustainable development, sustainable product development and sustainable product design tasks. The compared approaches were selected because they were considered the most robust and referred in the literature. The study provides designers an overview of the methods, vision, purpose and concepts used by the selected approaches to sustainable product design.

The design of modular oil tank: A new design process model

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Li ◽  
Xingsheng Jiang ◽  
Jingye Li ◽  
Yadong Zhao ◽  
Xuexing Li
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Mechanical Design ◽  
Computer Software ◽  
Reference Value ◽  
Fuel Tank ◽  
Design Quality ◽  
Design Time ◽  
Design Process Model

Background: In the whole design process of modular fuel tank, there are some unreasonable phenomena. As a result, there are some defects in the design of modular fuel tank, and the function does not meet the requirements in advance. This paper studies this problem. Objective: Through on-the-spot investigation of the factory, a mechanical design process model is designed. The model can provide reference for product design participants on product design time and design quality, and can effectively solve the problem of low product design quality caused by unreasonable product design time arrangement. Methods: After sorting out the data from the factory investigation, computer software is used to program, simulate the information input of mechanical design process, and the final reference value is got. Results: This mechanical design process model is used to guide the design and production of a new project, nearly 3 months ahead of the original project completion time. Conclusion: This mechanical design process model can effectively guide the product design process, which is of great significance to the whole mechanical design field.

Truck Redesign Case: Simulating the Target Costing Process in a Product Design Environment

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Everaert ◽  
Dan W. Swenson
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Cost Reduction ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Target Costing ◽  
Design Environment ◽  
Goal Setting Theory ◽  
Setting Theory

ABSTRACT This active learning exercise simulates the target costing process and demonstrates how a management theory (goal setting theory) is relevant to a business improvement initiative (target costing). As part of the target costing simulation, student participants work in teams to address a business issue (product development) that moves across functional boundaries. The simulation begins with students learning how to assemble a model truck and calculate its product cost using activity-based costing. Students are then divided into teams and instructed to reduce the truck's cost through a redesign exercise, subject to certain customer requirements and quality constraints. Typically, the teams achieve cost reduction by eliminating unnecessary parts, by using less expensive parts, and by using less part variety. This exercise provides a unique opportunity for students to actively participate in a redesign exercise. It results in student teams creating a wide variety of truck designs with vastly different product costs. The case ends by having a discussion about target costing, goal setting theory, and the implications of the target costing simulation. This simulation contains a number of specific learning objectives. First, students learn how the greatest opportunity for cost reduction occurs during the product design stage of the product development cycle. Second, students see firsthand how design-change decisions affect a product's costs, and the role of the cost information in guiding those decisions. Third, students experience the cross-functional interaction that occurs between sales and marketing, design engineering, and accounting during product development. Finally, this exercise helps students understand the concept of target costing. The simulation is appropriate for undergraduate or graduate management accounting classes. Data Availability:  For more information about this case, contact the first author at [email protected].

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