Sustainable Product-service Systems for an Office Furniture Manufacturer: How Insights From a Pilot Study can Inform PSS Design

Costa, Filipa Alves da; Prendeville, Sharon; Beverley, Katharine J.; Teso, Giulia; Brooker, Chris

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2015.02.109

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“…Ecodesign criteria are defined in the design brief at the beginning of the NPD process and this is supported by use of abridged LCA tools. In 2014, the firm initiated a pilot activity to introduce remanufacturing, offered through a new financial leasing contract, into its business model (Costa et al, 2015). Table 2 summarizes abridged LCA results for the four product case studies presented in this article.…”

Section: Research Context and Case Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Uncovering ecodesign dilemmas: A path to business model innovation

Prendeville

O'Connor

Bocken

et al. 2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Section: Research Context and Case Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Uncovering ecodesign dilemmas: A path to business model innovation

Prendeville

O'Connor

Bocken

et al. 2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…On the one hand, this may be due to the "intangible" and "complex" nature of social aspects and their interrelationships [55,56]. On the other hand, product developers are still in the dark in terms of the triple bottom line of sustainability [57], especially in how to integrate social aspects and how to incorporate the results of social assessment into product/service design remains a challenge.…”

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confidence: 99%

Sustainable Product Innovation and Consumer Communication

Wang

2022

Sustainability

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Sustainable product innovation and its communication with consumers are essential for the realisation of sustainability through sustainable consumption. This research conducted a structured review addressing sustainable product innovation, including sustainable product development and service, environmental and socio-economic impacts, communication of the sustainable product innovation to consumers via ecolabelling and declarations, and sustainability benchmarking. The review revealed that current research in sustainable product development and service focuses more on environmental and economic aspects, but the social aspect has not been given enough attention, and the interconnection between product development and service needs to be further addressed. Systematic sustainable innovation, considering the whole life cycle of the product to control and improve overall sustainability in the early product development stages should be paid more attention. To overcome the gaps, a framework for sustainable product development and services (SPDS) was developed and presented. Furthermore, this review found that communicating understandable environmental and socio-economic performance of products and services with consumers is still challenging. Barriers are identified in deriving benchmarks through sustainability performance assessments. This paper also provides examples of overcoming the barriers in sustainable benchmarking and communication with the “eco-cost” method, which engages both B2B and B2C customers to promote sustainable consumption.

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“…furniture) and components (Stephan, 2020). Some other examples of this could be seen from shared use of furniture in co-housing projects (Khajehzadeh and Vale, 2017) or providing take-back service based on PSS and LCD to extend the furniture system lifetime (Costa et al, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

The application of Life Cycle Assessment in sustainable furniture system design

Yang¹

2022

Ergonomics in Design

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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a quantitative methodology to assess the environmental impacts of products, services, and systems. Considering the sustainable furniture production and consumption system is one of the challenges that should be addressed and improved for a better quality of life for residents and lower pollution levels for the environment. The International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD) Handbook by the European Commission has defined 23 LCA applications within which developing design strategies is one. Considering 80% of environmental impacts are decided in the design stage, the research explores LCA's application in sustainable furniture system design by reviewing former articles. The study aims to define furniture design strategies based on LCA analysis. Methods: This research presents a systematic review of 165 articles and books (2000 - 2021) of Life cycle assessment research on furniture. These articles are chosen from Scopus and Google scholar, based on the relation to furniture LCA and impact factor, to make the literature review reliable. It analyses papers in the following three aspects—first, the assessed object(s) and the LCA objectives; second, LCA methods used in articles; and third, the recommended design strategies. The main findings: Reviewed articles generally belong to two categories, case study research and literature review. The exploration provides an overview of LCA supporting sustainable furniture design in 4 different levels: material level, product life cycle level, product service system level and company level. As a result, the research proposes a framework and maps the reviewed furniture design strategies onto this framework. The proposed framework shows design strategies in these four levels: material design, furniture life cycle design, product service system design, and value chain management. The framework also shows how various design strategies contribute to sustainable furniture design and visualizes linkages, overlaps and complementarities between these strategies based on quantitative LCA results.Discussion: Even though these articles proposed many strategies, we are unsure whether some strategies are missing. What is more, if we want to use these design strategies to support practical design activities, an important step is to define the priorities of different strategies in these four levels. This framework needs further assessment and confrontation among experts to make the framework comprehensive and meaningful in real work.

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Sustainable Product-service Systems for an Office Furniture Manufacturer: How Insights From a Pilot Study can Inform PSS Design

Cited by 19 publications

References 6 publications

Uncovering ecodesign dilemmas: A path to business model innovation

Uncovering ecodesign dilemmas: A path to business model innovation

Sustainable Product Innovation and Consumer Communication

The application of Life Cycle Assessment in sustainable furniture system design

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