A Metrics-Based Methodology for Establishing Product Sustainability Index (ProdSI) for Manufactured Products

Zhang, X.; Lü, Tao; Shuaib, Mohannad; Rotella, Giovanna; Huang, Aihua; Feng, Shaw C.; Rouch, Keith E.; Badurdeen, Fazleena; Jawahir, I.S.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-29069-5_74

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“…However, the shortcoming of equal weighting is that it may not truly reflect the relative importance of the aggregated elements. In the absence of more‐accurate information on how to assign weights, this approach has been used in many studies, including De Silva and colleagues () and Zhang and colleagues (). The second is soliciting expert opinion using surveys and questionnaires.…”

Section: Product Sustainability Index Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Product Sustainability Index (ProdSI)

Shuaib¹,

Seevers²,

Zhang³

et al. 2014

J of Industrial Ecology

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As a result of the rapidly depleting global resources, continuing climate change and increasing environmental pollution, and the associated growth in customer awareness, improving product sustainability has become a global trend. Comprehensive sustainability assessment techniques are needed to assess a product's sustainability performance throughout its entire life cycle. This article presents the Product Sustainability Index (ProdSI) methodology and its application. This methodology is metrics based and provides a comprehensive assessment of the overall product sustainability throughout its total life cycle, covering the four life cycle stages: pre-manufacturing; manufacturing; use; and postuse. In this article, first the fundamentals of sustainable manufacturing and product sustainability assessment (PSA) are presented, followed by a review of existing PSA methodologies. Major product sustainability elements that are used to define product sustainability clusters and individual sustainability metrics are then presented. Finally, the ProdSI methodology for PSA, which follows a hierarchical approach for sustainability metrics identification and overall PSA, is introduced. The application of the methodology is demonstrated in a numerical example of ProdSI evaluation for two generations of a consumer electronics component.

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Section: Product Sustainability Index Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Product Sustainability Index (ProdSI)

Shuaib¹,

Seevers²,

Zhang³

et al. 2014

J of Industrial Ecology

132

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“…Together with their industrial partner they developed a scoring model validated through a case study on a laser printer that permits to establish a sustainability ranking for two different products addressing the same purpose. A rating system leading to a product sustainability index was also proposed by Jawahir et al (2006) and developed further as a metrics-based framework to evaluate the total life cycle sustainability of manufactured products (Zhang et al 2012, Shuaib et al, 2014. More recent work, such as of Hallstedt (2017), Mesa et al (2018) or Fritz et al (2017) visibly include the product's lifecycle perspective.…”

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Sustainable Product Portfolio Evaluation Methodology for Sustainability Reporting in the Cement and Concrete Industry

Artelt¹,

Lukáš²

2020

EJSD

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The sustainability performance of companies, and in particular of construction material producers, is attracting more and more attention by a broad range of stakeholders. Many companies have consequently started to implement sustainability practices into practical action and to report on their efforts. This research aims to develop a methodology to assess the sustainability performance of cement and concrete products. This requires overcoming the main shortage of life cycle assessment, namely focusing on environmental parameters only, by considering a number of social and economic sustainability indicators and ensuring operational ease, without compromising the informative value of the assessment results. A status on sustainable product evaluation is provided as the starting point for the development of the new sustainable product evaluation methodology. The status on product evaluation includes Life Cycle Assessments, the development of indicators addressing environmental, social, and economic parameters, and recent methodology developments in industry. The results obtained with the tool developed in this work confirm the need for considering social and economic parameters along a product’s life cycle when evaluating the sustainability performance of cement and concrete. They also indicate that the new methodology is suitable for R&D orientation, portfolio management and sustainability reporting. Keywords: Sustainable products, sustainability indicators, lifecycle, UN Sustainable Development Goals, financial data

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“…Já Zhang et al (2012) defendem que os atuais sistemas produtivos devem focalizar todo o ciclo de vida o produto e considerar cada um dos três vértices da produção sustentável (economia, meio ambiente e sociedade) -os autores propõem que a sustentabilidade do produto abrange seis elementos: impacto ambiental, funcionalidades, requisitos de produção limpa, reciclabilidade e remanufaturabilidade, fabricação otimizada (recursos utilizados e aspectos econômicos) e impacto social, que configurariam a base de um sistema avaliativo para os processos, normatização (manufatura sustentável) e classificação internacional. Finalmente, considerando toda a evolução dos conceitos ligados à manufatura sustentável, Gallardo e Sanchez (2014) enfatizam que um sistema de produção sustentável pode ser estruturado a partir de estratégias, práticas e tecnologias intra e interorganizacionais, perfazendo um subsistema interno (relativo ao escopo empresarial) e outro subsistema externo -referente aos processos de negócio e ao sistema de agregação de valor transcendente à própria cadeia produtiva.…”

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Projeto de uma planta para manufatura de produtos pecuários a partir do reaproveitamento de resíduos plásticos industriais e fibras vegetais

Barbosa

Agnelli

Moreno

et al. 2015

P&P

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RESUMOO presente artigo discute o processo de elaboração para projeto conceitual de um sistema de produção sustentável para manufaturar equipamentos destinados à alimentação e suplementação de bovinos, que são obtidos a partir de materiais compostos (combinação de resíduos plásticos industriais e fibras vegetais de reforço). O estudo é decorrente da execução de uma pesquisa aplicada financiada pelo Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, que foi baseado em acordo de cooperação entre a indústria INFLEX, Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados/UFGD e Universidade Federal de São Carlos/UFSCar. O principal resultado é uma configuração preliminar do sistema produtivo sustentável (referência para uma nova unidade de negócios) que foi delineada a partir da adequação da metodologia de plant layout de Apple (1991), conceitos de produção mais limpa e requisitos da Política Nacional de Resíduos Sólidos. Por fim, destaca-se, também, a formação de uma base de fornecedores (embalagens plásticas pós-consumo e fibras vegetais).

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A Metrics-Based Methodology for Establishing Product Sustainability Index (ProdSI) for Manufactured Products

Cited by 22 publications

References 3 publications

Product Sustainability Index (ProdSI)

Product Sustainability Index (ProdSI)

Sustainable Product Portfolio Evaluation Methodology for Sustainability Reporting in the Cement and Concrete Industry

Projeto de uma planta para manufatura de produtos pecuários a partir do reaproveitamento de resíduos plásticos industriais e fibras vegetais

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