Towards a product life cycle design tool

Glazebrook, B.; Coulon, Rémi; Abrassart, Christophe

doi:10.1109/isee.2000.857629

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“…A comprehensive product data model is also essential for LCE to integrate various engineering tools and methods and to represent related engineering processes in the product life cycle (Glazebrook, Coulon, and Abrassar 2000). Do (2011) suggests a product data model that can integrate LCA calculation into an existing data model for product data management.…”

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Developing a product data model using the STEP PDM schema for integrating specifications of technical services

2013

International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing

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Life-cycle-oriented technical services are product-centric customer supports that aim to maximise product performance over its life cycle. This article proposes an extended product data model that can specify technical services, taking into account the product design and manufacturing process supported as integrated product life-cycle data. This integration allows the proposed model to evaluate the cost or environmental effects of products from the view of the product life cycle. The model specifies the life-cycle-oriented technical services by extending the STEP PDM schema, a widely implemented international standard for product data management (PDM). It helps manufacturers to integrate their technical services with current product and process specifications by using their existing PDM systems. A design information system based on a commercial PDM system is implemented based on the proposed product data model, and a set of application examples illustrates the effectiveness of the model for specifying life-cycle-oriented technical services.

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Developing a product data model using the STEP PDM schema for integrating specifications of technical services

2013

International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing

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“…This method is highly subjective. Meanwhile, product development engineers may lack the expertise to gauge accurately the environmental impacts of a product throughout its life cycle (Glazebrook et al 2000). To quantify environmental flows throughout all stages of the product life cycle, LCA was developed to measure negative environmental impacts and influences ranging from raw material extraction via manufacturing, distribution and use to final scrapping, recycling and reuse.…”

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A design for environment methodology for evaluation and improvement of derivative consumer electronic product development

Chiang

Wang

2011

J. Syst. Sci. Syst. Eng.

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Increasing environmental awareness and stringent environmental regulations have motivated many companies to incorporate ecodesign into product development. To assist companies to address the challenge, this research presents a design for environment (DfE) methodology to evaluate and improve derivative consumer electronic product development using a back-propagation neural network (BPNN) model and a technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) method. Based on use of a BPNN, the life cycle assessment (LCA) models are developed to estimate quantities of hazardous chemical substances and energy consumption for a derivative consumer electronic product throughout the product life cycle. A performance evaluation and improvement model for DfE is then devised based on the TOPSIS method to analyze the ecodesign performance and provide concrete improvement strategies. With the aforementioned analysis of environmental performance, an enterprise can profoundly understand and significantly enhance the relative DfE performance of a new product compared to the similar competitive products. Finally, we apply an optical mouse development project as a case to elaborate and demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology. These analytical results can let us understand the DfE performance ranking and acquire the maximum reduced quantity of each DfE criterion for each module of a new product. Meanwhile, to enhance the green competitiveness of the new product, we recommend that the engineers should decrease the area of the circuit board of the new product. In addition, the material of the USB cable for the new product should be switched from the PVC material to the PE material.

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“…It has become an essential feature of environmental management tool for product manufacturers in recent years. From the product recycling and LCED viewpoint (Glazebrook 2000), we should evaluate not only the economic cost but also environmental impact for the recycling activities. This DFR tool focuses on the evaluation of economic cost.…”

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“…(Glazebrook 2000, Yi Jianjun 2007a, however, these efforts are disparate and scattered hence there are limited net impacts. The attentions and efforts that are being scattered on each individual stage are specific and the addressed issues are to take only factors within the stages into considerations.…”

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Research on evaluation methodologies of product life cycle engineering design (LCED) and development of its tools

Yi¹,

Baiyang²,

Yifeng³

et al. 2008

International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing

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Life-cycle engineering design (LCED) is expected to represent an important part of the design of manufacturing processes in the future, particularly as a means of minimising environmental impact. In most current life cycle assessment tools (LCAT), the sets of data and information within the numerous tools deployed at various stages of design process are not being properly exchanged among the tools, resulting in a lack of exchange of information available to the different actors along the entire value chain and thus leading to the ineffective and inefficient adoption of sustainable product development practices. This paper extends the NIST product core model to serve as the product information model supporting LCED of the product. We propose the disassembly-logic-network (D-L-N) to map the product and the life cycle activities to the abstract model. This model facilitates the evaluation of DFA, DFD, DFR and almost all the other phases of LCED. We develop a comprehensive LCAT using Microsoft Visual Cþþ. The main components of this tool, its methodology and the key technologies used to develop this LCAT are demonstrated in this paper. It is important that similar computer aided tools be developed for design for the environment (DFE).Keyword: life cycle engineering design (LCED); life cycle assessment tools (LCAT); disassembly-logic-network

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Towards a product life cycle design tool

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Developing a product data model using the STEP PDM schema for integrating specifications of technical services

Developing a product data model using the STEP PDM schema for integrating specifications of technical services

A design for environment methodology for evaluation and improvement of derivative consumer electronic product development

Research on evaluation methodologies of product life cycle engineering design (LCED) and development of its tools

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