From Life Cycle Assessment to Sustainable Production: Status and Perspectives

Ecodesign methods focused on remanufacturing

“…The engineering activities addressing current industry's environmental impacts, from a product life cycle perspective, are connected to Life cycle Engineering, which can be defined as a set of processes to develop specifications in order to meet performance, cost and environmental requirements, as well as goals to increase the lifetime of a product, system, process or facility [7]. Life cycle Engineering aims to optimize the performance of a product throughout all life cycle stages.…”

“…The activities under the scope of Life cycle Engineering are related to the application of technological and scientific principles to the design and manufacturing of products, aiming to protect the environment including resource conservation, while encouraging economic progress, optimizing the product life cycle and minimizing pollution and waste [7,10].…”

“…Life cycle Engineering proposes to improve the eco-efficiency of industrial activities, which can be defined as the ratio between the services provided by the activities and the environmental impacts associated with this service [7,11]. In order to obtain eco-efficiency, several Life cycle Engineering approaches can be applied, as for instance ecodesign, Life cycle Assessment, Cleaner Production, among others.…”

Evaluating the relationship between use phase environmental impacts and manufacturing process precision

“…The potential effects of manufacturing on the use phase show that a manufacturer should focus on a product's entire life cycle to reduce impacts instead of only on areas of legal responsibility [3]. As manufacturers become increasingly responsible for the environmental performance of products throughout their life cycle, it is vital to know how manufacturing decisions can affect a product's environmental impact across all life cycle stages [4,5].…”

Introducing life cycle thinking in product development – A case from Siemens Wind Power

“…Learnings from mature industries such as the automotive highlight the value of integrating such considerations in their PDP in order to set the focus right on ecodesign to avoid trade-offs between environmental impacts and to set road maps for target setting and innovation [4,5]. The business benefits of integrating life cycle considerations and transitioning from a single product to a product service system perspective have also been discussed [6][7][8].…”