Title :
Development of pluggable LCA system
Author :
Tanaka, Gakushi ; Sakai, Norio ; Shimomura, Yoshiki
Author_Institution :
Res. into Artifacts, Tokyo Univ., Japan
Abstract :
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been proposed as a method of grasping the environmental load, occurring especially in product manufacturing, in order to design and manufacture products with better environmental performance. LCA is a technique for computing the environmental load of a product over the total product life cycle by performing inventory analysis of each life cycle process and summing up the results. However, since LCA computes environmental load based on a static database, it is difficult to consider dynamic changes of a life cycle in its calculation. In this research, we propose the new environmental load evaluation system, which can consider dynamic changes of each life cycle process by connecting external calculating modules to the LCA system.
Keywords :
design for environment; environmental factors; environmental science computing; product design; production engineering computing; environmental load evaluation system; inventory analysis; pluggable life cycle assessment system; product life cycle; product manufacturing; products design; static database; Environmental factors; Manufacturing automation software;
Conference_Titel :
Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2003. EcoDesign '03. 2003 3rd International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo, Japan
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8590-x
DOI :
10.1109/ECODIM.2003.1322756
