Design and development strategy of lightweight product packaging in green life cycle

2015 ◽  
pp. 463-468
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Product Packaging

scholarly journals Sustainability Evaluation of Product Packaging System with a Three-Stage Network Data Envelopment Analysis Methodology

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Xie ◽  
Yafang Gao ◽  
Shihao Zhang ◽  
Hailong Bai ◽  
Zhenghao Liu
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Environmentally Friendly ◽  
Network Data ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Packaging System ◽  
Product Packaging ◽  
Dea Model ◽  
Network Data Envelopment Analysis

This study presents a method that is based on the three-stage network Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to evaluate the sustainability of packaging systems for a product. This method facilitates the selection of better product packaging alternatives from an environmentally friendly point of view and it comprises the following four steps: (i) the definition of packaging sustainability indicator (PSI) based on environmental efficiency and impact indicator of three-stage in packaging life cycle, (ii) modeling a three-stage Network DEA model for a packaging system, (iii) computing PSI based on the DEA model, and (iv) result analysis. An empirical test has been progressed to prove the feasibility of the proposed method by selecting the three types of milk packaging systems. The results indicated that the PSI value of PrePack is the maximum and the Tetra Pak minimum. According to these results, the study provides an environmentally friendly evaluation method for product packaging systems, which is more intuitive than Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).

Rotorcraft virtual engineering; supporting life-cycle engineering through design and development, test and certification and operations

2018 ◽  
Vol 122 (1255) ◽  
pp. 1475-1495 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. D. Padfield
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Preliminary Design ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Life Cycle Engineering ◽  
Virtual Engineering ◽  
Model Fidelity ◽  
Virtual Prototypes ◽  
Industry Needs

ABSTRACTThe rotorcraft industry needs Virtual Engineering first to ensure decisions made early in the life-cycle, at the requirements capture and preliminary design phases for example, are reliably informed. Later, in design, development and qualification, Virtual Prototypes can become the centre of attention for critical reviews and, ultimately, certification itself. A significant challenge is to ensure that model fidelity is good enough, not only for supporting design decisions but also in establishing requirements based on sufficiently mature technologies. This international conference, Rotorcraft virtual engineering; supporting life-cycle engineering through design and development, test and certification and operations and co-sponsored by the RAeS/AHS/A3F/DGLR/AIDAA addressed these themes and this paper reviews and assesses the value of the various contributions.

Study on Production Design with the Evolution of Manufacturers' Sustainable Product Development Behavior in Remanufacturing

2013 ◽  
Vol 327 ◽  
pp. 207-210
Author(s):  
Xian Liang Zong
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Surface Engineering ◽  
Evolutionary Game ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Government Subsidies ◽  
Strength Failure ◽  
Sustainable Product

The remanufacturability of product mainly depends on product design and development strategy. Good design will use environmentally favorable materials and produce products with high remanufacturability. But now, most products are designed without considering the recycling and remanufacturing process. It is necessary to study manufacturers product design behavior to find measures to encourage the adoption of remanufacturing techniques including product design methods, the Finite Element Method of bonded strength, failure mechanism of materials, surface engineering techniques and so on. Sustainable product design and development behavior of manufacturer population in remanufacturing was studied. An evolutionary game model with government subsidies was set up. And the evolutionary stable strategies were analyzed under different ranges of values of relative parameters. The results indicated that government subsidies were essential to make manufacturers develop sustainable product and large subsidies always worked well. Especially the results showed that small subsidies also worked under certain conditions, which including the initial state of manufacturer population and the relationship of government subsidies and manufacturers revenues under different product development strategies.

scholarly journals Implementation of an Object-Oriented Life Cycle Assessment Framework Using Functional Analysis and Systems Engineering Principles

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shantanu Gadre ◽  
Marcos Esterman ◽  
Brian K. Thorn
Keyword(s):  
Functional Analysis ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Training Requirements ◽  
Development Phases ◽  
Early Phases

Given that a significant percentage of a product’s impacts are defined during design and development, there is a need to effectively integrate Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) into these early phases. However, the lack of standardized practices, the lack of appropriate modeling approaches, data issues, special training requirements for designers, and uncertainties in the results make it difficult to apply LCA in these early stages. In order to address this gap, this work builds on previous research that integrated system engineering and functional analysis into LCA to develop an object-oriented framework for LCA. The framework is applied to a consumer product and the results of the approach demonstrate the potential for an easy to update and scalable LCA model that facilitates comparability. Each module in this model can be developed separately and integrated effectively into a larger model guided by functional analysis techniques. This framework holds the promise to better integrate LCA into the design and development phases.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Investment Risks in CBA with Monte Carlo Method

2015 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 245-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Korytárová ◽  
Barbora Pospíšilová
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Public Project ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
The Public ◽  
Whole Life Cycle

Investment decisions are at the core of any development strategy. Economic growth and welfare depend on productive capital, infrastructure, human capital, knowledge, total factor productivity and the quality of institutions. Decision-making process on the selection of suitable projects in the public sector is in some aspects more difficult than in the private sector. Evaluating projects on the basis of their financial profitability, where the basic parameter is the value of the potential profit, can be misleading in these cases. One of the basic objectives of the allocation of public resources is respecting of the 3E principle (Economy, Effectiveness, Efficiency) in their whole life cycle. The life cycle of the investment projects consists of four main phases. The first pre-investment phase is very important for decision-making process whether to accept or reject a public project for its realization. A well-designed feasibility study as well as cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in this phase are important assumptions for future success of the project. A future financial and economical CF which represent the fundamental basis for calculation of economic effectiveness indicators are formed and modelled in these documents. This paper deals with the possibility to calculate the financial and economic efficiency of the public investment projects more accurately by simulation methods used.

scholarly journals Low-carbon design for product packaging: a case study on wineglass

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Xu ◽  
Jiao-Jing Pan
Keyword(s):  
Material Processing ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Product Packaging ◽  
Packaging Industry ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Packaging Structure

Abstract The study on carbon emissions in packaging industry is a very important but easily overlooked field. In order to explore carbon emissions of the packaging life cycle, the wineglass is used as the packaging object to discuss the difference between carbon emissions and costs caused by two new packaging structures and a common packaging structure on the market. The measurement boundary includes raw material collection, raw material processing, packaging manufacturing, transportation and end of life. It was found that reasonable packaging structure instead the buffer function of expanded polyethylene can effectively reduce the carbon emissions and costs.

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