scholarly journals Re-Commerce to Ensure Circular Economy from Consumer Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 10242
Author(s):  
Saleh Md. Arman ◽  
Cecilia Mark-Herbert
Keyword(s):  
Circular Economy ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Social Practice Theory ◽  
Focus Group Study ◽  
Enabling Factors ◽  
Product Life ◽  
Responsible Consumption ◽  
Consumer Perspective ◽  
Circular Economy System

Responsible consumption practice is crucial to minimizing waste as part of sustainable development (SDG 12). This can be achieved by extending product life in a cradle-to-cradle system as part of a circular economy. However, are consumers willing to extend product life by reusing materials? The phenomenon of re-commerce, where consumers sell products to each other (C2C), takes place in physical as well as web-based markets. This project focuses on enabling factors for re-commerce practices on Facebook among consumers in Bangladesh. A review of existing literature provided grounds for an empirical focus group study of Bangladeshi consumers. Using a social practice theory perspective in a thematic analysis shows that enabling factors in terms of technical competence, context-bound conditions influencing meanings such as socially accepted procedures, and practical practices relating to materials such as payment forms and logistics support, all serve as enabling or hindering factors. The study contributes to the understanding of conditions for re-commerce practices as part of a circular economy system where consumers are encouraged to engage in responsible consumption by extending product life cycles.

Special Issue on Design and Manufacturing for Environmental Sustainability

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 805-805
Author(s):  
Yasushi Umeda
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Product Life ◽  
Product Life Cycles ◽  
Design And Manufacturing ◽  
Part Selection ◽  
Multiple Product

This is the fourth special issue on design and manufacturing for environmental sustainability. While Japanese manufacturers are not so active in this field, the trend of integrating sustainability into manufacturing activities and management of companies is becoming dominant. We can point out three epoch-making instances: namely, United Nations’ ‘Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),’ which consists of 17 goals to be achieved by 2030, covering not only environmental sustainability but also social and human sustainability; EU’s ‘Circular Economy,’ which promotes various routes for resource circulation (e.g., reuse, remanufacturing, maintenance, and recycling) for increasing employment and market competitiveness of EU and resource efficiency; and ‘Paris Agreement’ on climate change, which enforces reduction of the emission of greenhouse gases to zero by the end of this century. This special issue includes six well-written papers, all of which are deeply related to these three policies. The first four papers focus on product life cycle or even multiple product life cycles. This aspect is an inherent feature of design and manufacturing for environmental sustainability, which was not considered in traditional design and manufacturing. The keywords of these four papers are life cycle CO2 emission evaluation of electric vehicles, life cycle simulation of reuse among multiple product life cycles, disassembly part selection based on the idea of life expectancy, and personalization design aiming at avoiding mass production and mass disposal. The latter two papers are rather fresh in this journal. The fifth paper deals with customer preferences in Indonesia. Focusing on life styles in developing countries is a very important topic emphasized in SDGs. The last paper deals with food waste, which is emphasized in both SDGs and Circular Economy. Most of the papers, revised and extended in response to the editor’s invitations, were originally presented at EcoDesign 2017: the tenth International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, held in Tainan, Taiwan. 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.

Study on life-cycle design for the post mass production paradigm

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
YASUSHI UMEDA ◽  
AKIRA NONOMURA ◽  
TETSUO TOMIYAMA
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Mass Production ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Simulation System ◽  
Product Life ◽  
Cycle Simulation ◽  
Life Cycle Design ◽  
Modular Structures

Environmental issues require a new manufacturing paradigm because the current mass production and mass consumption paradigm inevitably cause them. We have already proposed a new manufacturing paradigm called the “Post Mass Production Paradigm (PMPP)” that advocates sustainable production by decoupling economic growth from material and energy consumption. To realize PMPP, appropriate planning of a product life cycle (design of life cycle) is indispensable in addition to the traditional environmental conscious design methodologies. For supporting the design of a life cycle, this paper proposes a life-cycle simulation system that consists of a life-cycle simulator, an optimizer, a model editor, and knowledge bases. The simulation system evaluates product life cycles from an integrated view of environmental consciousness and economic profitability and optimizes the life cycles. A case study with the simulation system illustrates that the environmental impacts can be reduced drastically without decreasing corporate profits by appropriately combining maintenance, reuse and recycling, and by taking into consideration that optimized modular structures differ according to life-cycle options.

Control of Uncertainties in Metal Forming by Applications of Higher Flexibility Dimensions

2011 ◽  
Vol 104 ◽  
pp. 83-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Groche ◽  
M. Kraft ◽  
S. Schmitt ◽  
S. Calmano ◽  
U. Lorenz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Metal Forming ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Flexible Forming ◽  
Product Life ◽  
Product Life Cycles ◽  
Servo Press ◽  
Recent Developments

It is widely accepted that fluctuations in market demands and product life cycles are often unpredictable. Based on these uncertainties, companies cannot calculate with constant demands. Manufacturers are also confronted with quality fluctuations in semi-finished parts that lead to various product qualities. This paper identifies the most relevant uncertainties for companies and gives answers how manufacturers can deal with these problems. It also shows recent developments in the field of flexible forming using servo press technology. Hereby the focus is set on 3D Servo Presses, providing various options for accomplishing uncertainties.

Gestensteuerung als intuitives Bedienkonzept/Gesture control as an intuitive way of planning - Increasing the communication between shopfloor and planning

2015 ◽  
Vol 105 (03) ◽  
pp. 119-122
Author(s):  
A.-C. Fleischmann ◽  
P. Brosch ◽  
P. Brunkow ◽  
F. Jelich
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycles ◽  
Planning Systems ◽  
Product Life ◽  
Product Life Cycles ◽  
Gesture Control ◽  
Zukünftige Entwicklungen ◽  
Planning Department ◽  
Barriers To Communication

In Zeiten der Globalisierung sowie kürzer werdender Produktlebenszyklen mit zunehmender Dynamik sehen sich Automobilhersteller immer mehr dem Druck ausgesetzt, schnelle Anpassungen und Änderungen in sämtlichen Planungsphasen umzusetzen [1]. Infolgedessen entstehen hochkomplexe, teilweise unübersichtliche Planungssysteme, die lediglich von Experten bedienbar sind. Das erschwert eine Zusammenarbeit zwischen Planung und Mitarbeitern des Shopfloor; Änderungen nach dem Produktionsstart (SOP) werden nur in seltenen Fällen an die Planung zurückgespielt. Der Fachbeitrag beschreibt ein intuitives Bedienkonzept, um bei dieser Kommunikationshemmschwelle Abhilfe zu schaffen. Dabei wurde insbesondere der Einsatz von Consumertechnik im industriellen Umfeld überprüft. Potentiale für zukünftige Entwicklungen werden aufgezeigt.   In the wake of globalization and shorter product life cycles, automobile companies are forced to adapt more quickly to challenges and to allow changes in early planning phases. To cope with these requirements, the manufacturers introduced highly complex and partially confusing planning systems, which can only be operated by experienced experts, thus making communication between shopfloor and planning more difficult. Changes occurring after start of production (SOP) are only returned to the planning department to some extent. To overcome existing barriers to communication, intuitive operating options, mainly from consumer technology, shall be examined.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN THE TRANSITION TO A CIRCULAR ECONOMY

2021 ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
Sergey Bushuyev ◽  
Denis Bushuiev ◽  
Victoria Bushuieva ◽  
Olena Verenych
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Waste Products ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

The problem of creating effective models, methods and tools for strategic management of projects and programs for the development of organizations in the transition to a circular economy. Global trends in the development of organizations prove that the world is transforming with acceleration. The life cycle of knowledge and technologies for managing complex projects and programs is significantly reduced. The technical and technological complexity of organizational development projects increases due to innovations. These trends create significant challenges in the development of project management systems and programs for the formation of a circular economy in Ukraine. This is especially true of projects and programs in conditions of uncertainty about the impact of COVID 19 and anticipation of a global crisis after a pandemic. Today, the application of proven best practices (benchmarking) is no longer a way forward. Forming a vision, goals and strategy for the implementation of organizational development projects in advance makes our actions rigid, not flexible. When creating a project or program begins with focusing on what is valuable to our customers and the country, it is enough for us to use best practices. But the complexity and innovative orientation of development projects of organizations in the transition to a circular economy creates a number of challenges. One of the answers to these challenges is cost-effective work on project management and development programs, taking into account the trends of transition to a circular economy. Project management teams learn to distinguish between what is valuable and what doesn't matter, this is the path that management methodologies have taken for decades. A number of projects have taken the first steps in implementing the necessary cost-effective / flexible transition that supports sustainability and adaptability to turbulent environmental changes. In the conditions of modern destructive economic relations in the world community the problem of a choice of strategy of projects as drivers of development of the organizations is vital. One of the key approaches to the development of the EU is the transition to a circular economy with maximum utilization of both waste products and projects, and the disposal of project products after the end of product life cycles.

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