Reviews: Why Ellen Rosskam's Holistic Approach is Necessary: Excess Baggage: Leveling the Load and Changing the Workplace, Joining Sustainable Design and Substainable Livelihood: Beyond Child's Play, Sustainable Product Design in the Global Doll-Making Industry, Emerging Theories: Healthy Aging: Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging with a Closer Look at Alzheimer's & Parkinson's Diseases

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-280
Author(s):  
Jun Yim ◽  
Cathy Walker ◽  
Teresa Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Healthy Aging ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Sustainable Product Design ◽  
Environmental Threats ◽  
Parkinson’S Diseases ◽  
Child's Play ◽  
Sustainable Product

scholarly journals Preparing the way for mainstream sustainable product design

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicky Lofthouse
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Educational Setting ◽  
Actual Situation ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Sustainable Product Design ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Sustainable Product ◽  
Design Students

This paper proposes that there is a need to prepare undergraduate design students to be responsible practitioners when they enter the workplace. The multi-faceted approach adopted by the Design School at Loughborough University to achieve this is presented. The paper outlines and reflects on the differences between the idealistic environment provided within an educational setting and the actual situation in the design industry, where there is little evidence of mainstream sustainable design practice. The paper concludes that it is valuable to provide students with a range of skills that support sustainable design thinking, even if they are not currently required by the design industry because doing so turns the students into informed individuals with the potential to lead the next generation of design practitioners.

Strategy for Developing a System for Sustainable Product Design and Manufacture

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devdas Shetty ◽  
Claudio Campana ◽  
Lou Manzione ◽  
Suhash Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Surface Roughness ◽  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Robust Design ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Sustainable Product Design ◽  
Design And Manufacturing ◽  
Sustainable Product

Research studies confirm that embracing sustainability in product design and manufacturing not only yields environmental improvements, but offers key business benefits. There is an increasing pressure to adopt a more sustainable approach to product design and manufacture. Organizations that are actively engaged in sustainable product design and development cite impressive levels of improvement over their poorer performing peers in product innovation, quality, safety and revenue growth alongside anticipated environmental and energy gains. Sustainability in design and manufacturing has a lot to do with “doing better with less,” and embracing a broader view of product development, and examining full lifecycle of the product and the impact that its design, manufacture, performance and disposal can have across not only on business, but on the environment and society, as well. The process of rethinking a product’s design so that it is more durable contains fewer parts and easily packaged and recycled also drives innovation and quality. The goal of sustainable product design (SPD) is to produce products and/or to provide services, which are sustainable and achieve their required functionality, meet customer requirements and are cost effective. In other words, SPD is about producing superior products and/or services that fulfil traditional criteria as well as sustainability requirements. The requirement to develop sustainable product is one of the key challenges of 21st century. This paper describes a system that identifies sustainability related performance measures for products in terms of: a) Sustainable product design by robust design. b) Sustainable design by quality of service. The first case study is on a laser based measuring instrument which supports the theory of sustainable product by robust design techniques The objective of the robust design study is to find the optimum recommended factor setting for the surface roughness analyser to minimize the variability in the readings. This instrument relies on the spread of the laser light on the work piece to determine surface roughness; therefore, the analyser’s reliability depends primarily on everything involved with the laser and its path. There are a minimum number of parts to achieve this function since the laser can scan over the work piece, substituting functionality in place of additional parts. The use of surface roughness analyser for online measurement of surface finish and continuous online monitoring and control with a feedback provides the robustness in quality and sustainability. The second case study, which is on elevator quality of service, is considered to support the theory of sustainable design by quality of service. This example shows how the design considerations are influenced and closely linked to the quality of service and maintenance. To support the theory of sustainability by quality of service, this case study examines elevator design and maintenance and recommends a new procedure based on Root Couse Analysis resulting in Elevator Condition Index (ECI). ECI is a new procedure and is applied based on original equipment reliability, projected average life cycle of key wear components, number of run cycles since maintenance was last performed on each component, cost of emergency repair vs. cost of maintenance vs. likelihood of failure. It supports service based on prognostics rather than routine service cycles. Sustainable design and manufacturing is possible if we deploy the virtual engineering tools to monitor and service manufacturing machinery so that the sustainable benefits are maintained throughout the product design cycle. The choice of a workplace structure depends on the design of the parts and lot sizes to be manufactured as well as market factors, such as the responsiveness to changes. Designers should be aware of the manufacturing consequences of their decisions because minor design changes during the early stages often prevent major problems later. As a part of product performance evaluation, the use of capability index to maintain process quality can lead to beneficial results.

Design for Disassembly Method As Sustainable Product Evaluation Tool: Example of Underground Escalator

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devdas Shetty ◽  
Jiajun Xu
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Product Evaluation ◽  
Drive System ◽  
Sustainable Product Design ◽  
Original Design ◽  
Design For Disassembly ◽  
Sustainable Product ◽  
The Impact

Sustainable design and manufacturing considers a product’s full life cycle and the impact that its design, manufacture, use, and retirement can have not only on business but also the environment and society. Designers are becoming steadily aware of this problem, and are employing techniques that allow them to design with greater responsibility – Sustainable Product Design; in particular, the Design for Disassembly (DFD) is recommended as a technique of sustainable product design. In the case of a durable good with a long-life cycle or a product with parts subject to wear, maintainability/serviceability may be more important than initial product acquisition cost, and the product must be designed for easy maintenance. The DFD principles identify the ease with which products can be fabricated, maintained, serviced, and recycled. This paper examines and identifies a “Rating Chart” technique which can be used to evaluate DFD. It is demonstrated through a case study of underground escalator housing, in which different types of failure modes and defects occur in the major components of escalator drive systems, such as the motor and its drive chain system, handrail and its drive system, bearings/lubrication systems that are in adjunct with the bearing shaft assembly. Through the Rating Chart method proposed for DFD, the deficiency of the original design of escalator drive system was accessed and compared with the proposed sustainable design approach, in which the product maintainability can be significantly improved and the maintenance time can be greatly reduced. The paper concludes by showing the importance of sustainable product design for products working under extreme working conditions.

A benchmark-based method for sustainable product design

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 643-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arash Hosseinpour ◽  
Qingjin Peng ◽  
Peihua Gu
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Quality Function Deployment ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Carbon Equivalent ◽  
Sustainable Product Design ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
Environmental Footprints ◽  
Sustainable Product ◽  
Competitive Products

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop an effective approach to decide design details using benchmarking to capture the existing practice in sustainable design. Design/methodology/approach – This paper reports a systematic method for sustainable product design. The method uses benchmarks as references searching for design details to achieve sustainable solutions. Quality function deployment is used to guide the search process for competitive products using benchmarking to meet quantitative targets of product and to increase knowledge for sustainable design. Findings – The proposed method can meet both functional and sustainable requirements of product design. 18.55 percent reduction in carbon equivalent emissions is achieved compared to benchmarks in wheelchair design. The research reveals that when weight, material and number of components used in product decrease, environmental footprints and cost of the product improve. Originality/value – The research improves the existing method of sustainable product design. Both sustainable requirements and functional demands of product are identified from qualitative criteria to quantitative metrics using benchmarking and the life cycle assessment.

scholarly journals Sustainable Tourism Product Development: An Application of Product Design Concepts

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7957
Author(s):  
Marco Haid ◽  
Julia N. Albrecht
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Sustainable Product Design ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Design For Sustainability ◽  
Tourism Product ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Multiple Characteristics ◽  
Sustainable Product

This study examines sustainable tourism products in tourism destinations. Based on concepts of sustainable product design, our study proposes a framework for sustainable tourism products by adapting an existing Design for Sustainability Framework to consider and analyze the characteristics and themes of sustainable (tourism) products as well as their impact and scope. Using a pragmatic qualitative approach, 15 semi-structured interviews with destination managers from the German-speaking Alpine region formed the empirical basis of the study. The results emphasize key themes and multiple characteristics associated with sustainable tourism products in tourist destinations, addressing all sustainability components and design innovation levels. This study is the first to apply existing sustainable product design concepts to destination contexts and discuss their applicability for sustainable tourism products. For practitioners, this study provides support for the development of sustainable tourism products and contributes to a better understanding of the effects and levels of these products as well as sustainability marketing.

scholarly journals Metrics for Measuring Sustainable Product Design Concepts

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 3469
Author(s):  
Ji Han ◽  
Pingfei Jiang ◽  
Peter R. N. Childs
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Sustainable Product Design ◽  
Early Design ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Concept Evaluation ◽  
Sustainable Product

Although products can contribute to ecosystems positively, they can cause negative environmental impacts throughout their life cycles, from obtaining raw material, production, and use, to end of life. It is reported that most negative environmental impacts are decided at early design phases, which suggests that the determination of product sustainability should be considered as early as possible, such as during the conceptual design stage, when it is still possible to modify the design concept. However, most of the existing concept evaluation methods or tools are focused on assessing the feasibility or creativity of the concepts generated, lacking the measurements of sustainability of concepts. The paper explores key factors related to sustainable design with regard to environmental impacts, and describes a set of objective measures of sustainable product design concept evaluation, namely, material, production, use, and end of life. The rationales of the four metrics are discussed, with corresponding measurements. A case study is conducted to demonstrate the use and effectiveness of the metrics for evaluating product design concepts. The paper is the first study to explore the measurement of product design sustainability focusing on the conceptual design stage. It can be used as a guideline to measure the level of sustainability of product design concepts to support designers in developing sustainable products. Most significantly, it urges the considerations of sustainability design aspects at early design phases, and also provides a new research direction in concept evaluation regarding sustainability.

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