SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY IN PRODUCT DESIGN: A REVIEW AND DIRECTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH

2016 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd Fahrul Hassan ◽  
Muhamad Zameri Mat Saman ◽  
Salwa Mahmood ◽  
Nik Hisyamudin Muhd Nor ◽  
Mohd Nasrull Abdol Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sustainable Product Design ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
Product Design Process ◽  
Sustainable Product

To achieve sustainable product design, it is crucial to use sustainability assessment during the product design process. In this paper, numerous sustainability assessment methodologies in product design are reviewed. A comprehensive assessment of sustainability has been reported to present better performance for improving product sustainability. This review focused on the consideration of sustainability elements by previous researchers that have proposed integrated design tools, commercial software tools and combination both methods in supporting the methodologies. Based on this review, it can be concluded that the inclusion of sustainability performance among the assessment criteria in the design process activities is suggested as a critical point of concern which presents a challenge and is a great opportunity to develop useful guidelines or directions for industries or any product-based project so that the proposed approach will be accepted for implementation in the working environment.

scholarly journals Study on vibration and noise influence for optimization of garden mower

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 428-435
Author(s):  
Yimin Chen ◽  
Wenzhuo Zhang ◽  
Lu Dong ◽  
Korhan Cengiz ◽  
Amit Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Frequency Level ◽  
Quality Life ◽  
Load Carrying ◽  
The World ◽  
Product Design Process ◽  
Safety And Environment

Abstract Advancement in engineering provides various improvement in quality life while taking consideration of important factors for safety and environment. The use of mower food maintenance of land it is very common across several parts of the world with some frequent noise generated through its operation. This article is an attempt to study the noise and frequency generated through the vibrations of mower blade. In this study, an integrated design for designing, testing and developing mower blade that generates less noise is presented. For designing efficient blade that produces less noise, we have implemented various engineering approaches such as rapid product design, process of re-engineering and reverse engineering. The simulation of the designed blade is carried out through CAD software where the design prototype is analysed for its performance. The outcomes of the prototype are tested through simulation and its performance is compared for the determination of success of proposed design at different variations in frequency level. It is observed through the experimentation that the noise and vibration differences are generated through load carrying vehicles, mowers with riding capacity and simple mowers. From the analysis, mower with riding capacity is observed as safest among all other types of machines.

Design for Manufacturability

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed A. Azam ◽  
William P. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Concept Development ◽  
Concept Design ◽  
Process Selection ◽  
Cad System ◽  
Product Design Process ◽  
Industrial Designers

Abstract Research has been carried out at Coventry University Centre for Integrated Design on the concept design process and it is funded by the Coventry University Research Fund. An experiment, simulating product design in industry, was conducted by concept designers which were, in turn, acted by student industrial designers and student engineering designers. In general the product design process is a sequential process. The first part of the process is the conceptual phase. This is followed by the engineering design phases which include all the manufacturing information. In this case the downstream engineering design focuses on designs for manufacture and process selection. Information on the requirements of conceptual designers in these areas was collected from these experiments. The information is ultimately to be incorporated into rules in a knowledge base which can be readily accessed by the industrial designer during concept development via a CAD system.

Toward a Methodology for Systematically Generating Energy- and Materials-Efficient Concepts Using Biological Analogies

2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia M. O'Rourke ◽  
Carolyn C. Seepersad
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Sustainable Product Design ◽  
Efficient Design ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Bioinspired Design ◽  
Sustainable Product ◽  
Tools And Methods

Energy- and materials-efficient designs are highly valued in the context of sustainable product design, but realizing products with significant changes in efficiency is a difficult task. One means to address this challenge is to use biological analogies during ideation. The use of biological analogies in the design process has been shown to greatly increase the novelty of concepts generated, and many authors in the bioinspired design (BID) community contend that efficiency-related benefits may be conferred as well. However, there is disagreement in the field as to when, how, and why efficiency-related benefits might arise in BIDs. This work explores these issues in-depth. A review of BID literature and an empirical study of BIDs lead to a better understanding of the types of efficiency advantages conferred by BID and set the stage for the development of tools and methods to systematically generate more energy- and materials-efficient design concepts using biological analogies.

A Methodology for Idea Generation in Sustainable Product Design

2010 ◽  
Vol 129-131 ◽  
pp. 174-178
Author(s):  
Jun Feng Wang ◽  
Sui Huai Yu ◽  
Jan Jie Chu ◽  
Bin Qi
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Idea Generation ◽  
Work Flow ◽  
Customer Requirements ◽  
Sustainable Product Design ◽  
Result Show ◽  
Product Design Process ◽  
Engineering Parameters ◽  
Sustainable Product ◽  
System Methodology

Sustainable product design has become the tendency of the product design because the degradation of the environment. However, there are no effective methodologies or framework designers and developer eager to. This paper base on the soft system methodology present a methodology which is effective to the idea generation phases in sustainable product design process. From the need identification to the idea generation, sustainable product design criteria and relationship between it and customer requirements, 39 engineering parameters, 40 inventive principles were use in the methodology. An example is illustrated to show the process of this work flow, and the result show the effectiveness of the methodology.

scholarly journals Sustainability in the Product Design: A Review of Recent Development Based on LCA

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.7) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Salwa Mahmood ◽  
Mohd Fahrul Hassan ◽  
Abdul Rahman Hemdi ◽  
Muhamad Zameri Mat Saman
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Product Design Process ◽  
Sustainable Product ◽  
Potential Impact

In order to achieve sustainable product design process, aspects such of environmental, economic and social should be balanced.  This paper discussed on sustainability of product design, conceptual basis of life cycle assessment (LCA), review of LCA at several product design, methodology of proposed framework and discussion on strengths and limitations of LCA. This paper proposed to develop a framework for improving the product design process based on LCA tool. The aims is to calculate potential impact of environment, economic and social aspects during product design process. For environmental aspects, LCA tool will be used. For economic and social considerations, life cycle costing (LCC) and social life cycle assessment will be applied respectively. At the end, proposed framework are able to help designers to improve product design by considering all sustainability aspects.  

scholarly journals A Bibliometric Review of Sustainable Product Design

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (21) ◽  
pp. 6867
Author(s):  
Pingfei Jiang ◽  
Elena Dieckmann ◽  
Ji Han ◽  
Peter R. N. Childs
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sustainable Product Design ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Sustainability Research ◽  
Bibliometric Review ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Sustainable Product

Consideration of sustainability in product development is becoming increasingly important and encompasses many aspects of product design. In this study, a bibliometric review of recent sustainable product design publications using Web of Science and VOSViewer is carried out. The review indicates that the majority of publications concerning sustainable product design is oriented towards environmental science-led subject areas and production-led journals. Analysis of author keyword co-occurrences reveals that circular economy, life cycle assessment, sustainable management, and optimization are the most popular topics in sustainable product design research. The analysis also reveals that the researchers fail to link sustainability research to activities in product design, which leads to the lack of access to relevant research that can make products more sustainable. Building on the findings, the authors propose four future research directions that aim to guide researchers to better correlate sustainability with product design, namely: sustainability interpretation, integration, assessment and validation, and improvement.

Enabling Cyber-Based Learning of Product Sustainability Assessment Using Unit Manufacturing Process Analysis

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamyar Raoufi ◽  
Karl R. Haapala ◽  
Gül E. Okudan Kremer ◽  
Kyoung-Yun Kim ◽  
Carolyn E. Psenka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Sustainable Product Design ◽  
Design Changes ◽  
Design And Manufacturing ◽  
Sustainable Product ◽  
Sustainability Assessments

Efforts to reduce product environmental impacts such as energy consumption and carbon footprint have received attention for many years, often driven by consumer pressure on companies to produce more environmentally friendly products. As the next generation of engineers who will take responsibility for advancing the sustainability of products, processes, and systems, engineering students need to become more familiar with the concepts of sustainable product design and manufacturing. Yet, educators are disadvantaged in training these students, and tools are deficient in assisting product sustainability assessments for manufacturing decision making by other non-experts. A manufacturing analysis module is introduced, which was developed under collaborative research titled, Constructionism in Learning: Sustainable Life Cycle Engineering (CooL:SLiCE). This CooL:SLiCE manufacturing analysis module provides an opportunity for non-expert students and engineers to investigate the impacts of product design changes on manufacturing processes and supply chain network configurations, e.g., selection of upstream processes, transportation routes, and transportation modes, from environmental responsibility perspective. One popular consumer product, a multicopter, is selected to demonstrate the module. The production of three hexacopter components are evaluated: the upper shell, lower shell, and propeller. The manufacturing analysis module enables non-experts to gain a better understanding of sustainable product design and manufacturing.

Modeling Evolution of Uncertainty in Sustainable Product Design

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamid Afshari ◽  
Qingjin Peng
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Discrete Event ◽  
Design Phase ◽  
Sustainable Product Design ◽  
Phase Duration ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Sustainable Product

Although a large number of research activities have been conducted for sustainable product development, it is not easy to find a practical method applied in sustainable product design as there are many uncertain factors existed in particular problems faced in different phases of product development. Based on reviewed literature, it is found that it is necessary to have an optimization metric accompanied with uncertainty effects in product development. A model is proposed in this research to evaluate the effects of uncertainty in product life cycle. The goal is to quantify various types of uncertainty from internal and external sources to assess the design efficiency for mitigating undesirable effects of uncertainty. The design phase is aimed in the research to look at product parameters that are subject to change in the design process. Inaccuracy, indecision and imprecision are selected as information uncertainty levels to quantify the evolution of uncertainty. Using the proposed concept, the discrete-event simulation (DES) is used to model and evaluate scenarios to minimize design phase duration of a sustainable wheelchair. Suggested improvements are compared to search the optimal solution. The analysis and comparison of scenarios show ways to reduce design time by (1) revision of the design process, (2) breaking down the product into design details, and (3) providing a clear and technical definition of uncertainty to be mitigated. The model is also used to locate areas for sustainability improvement in the studied case.

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