Sustainable Lightweight Design – Relevance and Impact on the Product Development &amp; Lifecycle Process

Kaspar, Jerome; Vielhaber, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.promfg.2017.02.052

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“…Externalities such as greenhouse gas emissions are one example. Material selection 50 and lightweight (LW) design 51 have both been the subject of work to develop multiobjective frameworks for decision-making that include cost, performance, and environmental factors. We present here a set of 10 principles, and an organizing framework, focused on guiding the environmental improvement of transportation vehicle systems (including, but not limited to, passenger cars, trucks, trains, ships, and planes) through lightweighting.…”

Section: ■ Principles Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Green Principles for Vehicle Lightweighting

Lewis

Buchanan

Jhaveri

et al. 2019

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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A large portion of life cycle transportation impacts occur during vehicle operation, and key improvement strategies include increasing powertrain efficiency, vehicle electrification, and lightweighting vehicles by reducing their mass. The potential energy benefits of vehicle lightweighting are large, given that 29.5 EJ was used in all modes of U.S. transportation in 2016, and roughly half of the energy spent in wheeled transportation and the majority of energy spent in aircraft is used to move vehicle mass. We collect and review previous work on lightweighting, identify key parameters affecting vehicle environmental performance (e.g., vehicle mode, fuel type, material type, and recyclability), and propose a set of 10 principles, with examples, to guide environmental improvement of vehicle systems through lightweighting. These principles, based on a life cycle perspective and taken as a set, allow a wide range of stakeholders (designers, policy-makers, and vehicle manufacturers and their material and component suppliers) to evaluate the trade-offs inherent in these complex systems. This set of principles can be used to evaluate trade-offs between impact categories and to help avoid shifting of burdens to other life cycle phases in the process of improving use-phase environmental performance.

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Section: ■ Principles Backgroundmentioning

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Green Principles for Vehicle Lightweighting

Lewis

Buchanan

Jhaveri

et al. 2019

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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“…Kaspar and Vielhaber [91] studied innovative lightweight designs to achieve sustainability in the product development process (PDP) with the primary objective of reducing the size and space of the component, and the assembly process. Furthermore, a framework was developed for an integrated, cross-component, lightweight, and material-oriented design (LMOD).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…[84] (vi) Lightweight materials. [85,91] Minimise and reduce the material used (i) Monitor quantities of the material used for products, packaging, and promotional items. [56,65] (ii) Reduce and eliminate unwanted, unnatural, or toxic materials.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The material cost needs to be understood during the design stage and essential criteria should emphasise economic factors [67]. As Kaspar and Vielhaber [91] suggested, material selection plays a critical role in determining the overall cost of the entire product. Manufacturers should efficiently manage resources, especially materials, to reduce costs, since the production volume has drastically increased [77].…”

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A Review on Sustainability Characteristics Development for Wooden Furniture Design

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The design of furniture products is influenced by increasing consumer interest in green products and sustainability values. However, although the demand for sustainable furniture products is high, the standardization of sustainability characteristics in furniture design has still not been achieved. A thorough literature review was conducted, which considered various sustainability characteristics that apply in industries that design furniture. This review paper aimed to identify common sustainability characteristics so that a new standard for furniture industries can be established. In this review, numerous themes were explored relating to design guidelines, design criteria, design preferences, design optimization, design evaluation and assessment, design decision making, strategic planning, design strategies, the integration of eco-design, and eco-design tools. A total of 137 articles were reviewed regarding their sustainability characteristics according to the triple bottom-line framework for a relevant product sector. Due to the limited reports on the sustainability characteristics of furniture design activities, this paper also tried to include common sustainability characteristics of non-furniture products that are available on the market. Through the review, 10 sustainability characteristics were identified for the environment, 17 for the economy, and 16 for the social dimension as being common among manufacturers when designing their products. A further in-depth analysis was conducted by mapping the characteristics to those that were significantly implemented in the design process, of which five (5) were environmental, two (2) were economic, and five (5) were social sustainability characteristics. This review is significant in helping furniture designers to use appropriate and effective sustainability standards in the design and manufacture of products that meet customers’ demands. Previous literature reviews have not clearly measured the triple bottom line. Furthermore, no definite characteristics were proposed in previous works regarding wooden furniture design, leaving a gap to be closed by future works.

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“…Choosing the suitable material (based on product requirements) plays a significant role in an environmentally friendly design. Various lightweight construction concepts and the value chain provides information on specific correlations and interrelationships of relevant aspects throughout the PLC, ultimately leading to this, with the help of the decisive levers identified to improve future product development decisions [12]. The eco-design tools included two aspects of sustainability classified as partial sustainable product design tools (PSPD).…”

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An Empirical Investigation of Green Product Design and Development Strategies for Eco Industries Using Kano Model and Fuzzy AHP

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Collaboration in green product design and development is becoming more significant to ensure a brighter future for eco industries, and research into such innovation has increased in recent years. So, it has been emphasized by practitioners that green thinking should be adopted from the design stage through the development stage and into the disposal stage of a product. However, it is challenging to identify the severity of strategies that mainly hampers the growth of green product design and development (GPDD). The current research aimed to identify and rank various strategies based on their significant impact on the development of green product design. The study contains three segments: (1) Multiple strategies were identified based on the published literature, project reports, and interactions with academics and industry experts. Then, 22 strategies were selected for GPDD that could be divided into five clusters: cooperation and commitment from top management commitment (TMC), design for environment (DFE), utilization of green technologies (UGT), green external supply chain management (GESCM), and green internal supply chain management (GISCM). (2) The Kano model was used to identify user requirements and satisfaction levels. (3) The priority weight and rank among selected strategies were determined using the fuzzy AHP approach. The results show that the “DFE” ranks highest among the main categories, and “design for disassembly” has been highlighted as a necessary sub-criteria in the emerging eco industries. Various recommendations are suggested to adopt these techniques, which augment the growth of green product design and development for eco industries.

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Sustainable Lightweight Design – Relevance and Impact on the Product Development & Lifecycle Process

Cited by 20 publications

References 15 publications

Green Principles for Vehicle Lightweighting

Green Principles for Vehicle Lightweighting

A Review on Sustainability Characteristics Development for Wooden Furniture Design

An Empirical Investigation of Green Product Design and Development Strategies for Eco Industries Using Kano Model and Fuzzy AHP

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