Title :
A Concurrent Approach to Reducing Environmental Impact of Product Development at the System Design Stage
Author :
Chih-Hsing Chu ; Su, Jack C. P. ; Yuan-Tsung Chen
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Ind. Eng. & Eng. Manage., Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan
fDate :
7/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
This paper presents a computational framework for reducing environmental impact of product development in consideration of product design, manufacturing, and the supply chain concurrently. This framework incorporates a number of factors that ecologically influence the product lifecycle activities into product architecture design. They allow a systematic variation of manufacturing bill of materials. CAD-based functions are developed to ensure that the variation results satisfy product functional requirements and are interference-free during assembly. A cradle-to-gate lifecycle assessment is conducted on the bill of materials. Optimization schemes are integrated with the variation process to search for optimal results. This work realizes sustainable product development by offering a tool of ecological decision making in the system design stage.
Keywords :
CAD; bills of materials; design for environment; life cycle costing; product design; product development; supply chain management; sustainable development; CAD-based function; assembly; computer aided design; cradle-to-gate lifecycle assessment; ecological decision making; environmental impact reduction; manufacturing bill-of-material; product architecture design; product design; product functional requirement; product lifecycle activity; product manufacturing; product supply chain; sustainable product development; system design stage; Bills of materials; Green design; Product design; Product development; Product life cycle management; Supply chains; Bill of materials (BOMS); lifecycle assessment; product architecture; product development; sustainable design;
Journal_Title :
Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TASE.2012.2194703