Life Cycle Management for Improving Product Service

2011 ◽  
Vol 58-60 ◽  
pp. 652-656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heng Wang ◽  
Jin Chang Hou
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Life Cycle Management ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Product Life ◽  
Cycle Simulation ◽  
Product Service ◽  
Total Product

For achieving better environmental performance of products or product systems, it is essential to manage total product life cycle. This paper describes a method for supporting product life cycle management by comprehensive product life cycle simulation, which is a basis for designing and evaluating total product life cycle. For life cycle evaluation, it is important to seek for the better product services, at the same time to seek for lower environmental burden and life cycle management costing. For this purpose, a product usage model is proposed, where customer satisfaction is measured by offered product functionality. The same level of customer satisfaction can be achieved by various different life cycle management options. By taking examples of technologically immature short-life products, like mobile phones, effect of difference of required product service quality is investigated, and appropriate product management strategy is discussed for improving product service quality.

Coordination of Product Life Cycle with Product Usage Mode

2011 ◽  
Vol 268-270 ◽  
pp. 97-100
Author(s):  
Heng Wang ◽  
Jin Chang Hou
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Life Cycle Management ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Product Life ◽  
Product Usage ◽  
Product Service ◽  
Total Product

For achieving better environmental performance of products or product systems, it is essential to manage total product life cycle. This paper describes a method for supporting product life cycle management by comprehensive product life cycle simulation, which is a basis for designing and evaluating total product life cycle. For life cycle evaluation, it is important to seek for the better product services, at the same time to seek for lower environmental burden and life cycle management costing. For this purpose, a product usage model is proposed, where customer satisfaction is measured by offered product functionality. The same level of customer satisfaction can be achieved by various different life cycle management options. By taking examples of technologically immature short-life products, like mobile phones, effect of difference of required product service quality is investigated, and appropriate product management strategy is discussed for improving product service quality.

scholarly journals Product life cycle management approach for integration of engineering design and life cycle engineering

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Penciuc ◽  
Julien Le Duigou ◽  
Joanna Daaboul ◽  
Flore Vallet ◽  
Benoît Eynard
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Material Selection ◽  
Life Cycle Management ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Product Life ◽  
Product Life Cycle Management ◽  
Cycle Simulation ◽  
Material Choice

AbstractOptimized lightweight manufacturing of parts is crucial for automotive and aeronautical industries in order to stay competitive and to reduce costs and fuel consumption. Hence, aluminum becomes an unquestionable material choice regarding these challenges. Nevertheless, using only virgin aluminum is not satisfactory because its extraction requires high use of energy and effort, and its manufacturing has high environmental impact. For these reasons, the use of recycled aluminum alloys is recommended considering their properties meet the expected technical and environmental added values. This requires complete reengineering of the classical life cycle of aluminum-based products and the collaboration practices in the global supply chain. The results from several interdependent disciplines all need to be taken into account for a global product/process optimization. Toward achieving this, a method for sustainability assessment integration into product life cycle management and a platform for life cycle simulation integrating environmental concerns are proposed in this paper. The platform may be used as a decision support system in the early product design phase by simulating the life cycle of a product (from material selection to production and recycling phases) and calculating its impact on the environment.

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.

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