Product Lifecycle Analysis and Optimization in an Eco-value Based, Sustainable and Unified Approach

The current capabilities in most small and medium enterprises in industry are inadequate to meet the sustainable growth challenges from customers, competitors, or from government legislation requirements in the near future. This paper explores new product lifecycle technologies to address the challenges above. An eco-value based and unified product sustainability enhancement approach is proposed that enables comprehensive product lifecycle analysis and optimization. The novelty of the proposed approach is the semantics-based evolvement optimization method which is generic and adaptable to any sustainability issues.