Why Upgradability should be Considered for Rationalizing Materials?

Pialot, Olivier; Millet, Dominique

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2014.06.013

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“…Through product life extension, remanufacturing is one of the strategies that can help in retaining the value of the used product and through this approach, product upgrade is proposed as one of the alternatives in the remanufacturing activities. Remanufacturing is defined as the process of restoring a discarded product to useful life (Lund, 1984) or returning the used product to the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and then giving the resulting product a warranty that is at least equal to a newly manufactured product (Ijomah, 2002;Pialot and Millet, 2014).…”

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“…Upgrade is defined as the process that involves the functional enrichment of the product (Pialot and Millet, 2014). It is brought to the product at each change of cycle to increase the attractiveness of the remanufacturable system for the customer.…”

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“…Meanwhile Agrawal and Ülkü (2011) think that modular upgradability is a strategy for improving the environmental performance since it allows for the independent replacement of improving subsystems, instead of replacing the entire product. According to Pialot and Millet (2014), products are discarded during their lifetime due to two reasons which are Physical Life Time (PLT) and Value Life Time (VLT). The Physical Life Time refers to the time until which a product breaks down which is related to reliability, whilst Value Life Time is the time until which a product is disposed because its performance, functionality or appearance cannot satisfy the customer's needs anymore, although the product itself might work well.…”

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“…The adoption of one or the other (or the combination of) the scenarios presented above must be accompanied by the implementation of a method of redesign dedicated to the chosen strategy and a study of the associated business model. Methods developed in the design sciences are useful for this project: design for disassembly, design for material recycling, design for remanufacturing, design for upcycling for example [20,21,22]. More, it should be noticed that beyond the environmental impacts, the proposed scenarios must be thought of as business opportunities.…”

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Environmental assessment of PSS, feedback on 2 years of experimentation

Allais

Gobert

2017

Matériaux & Techniques

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This communication details the sustainability assessment of the partial transition of business model from selling products to product renting for small household equipment (SHE). Perceived by the French SHE manufacturer as a strategic opportunity to meet customers’ expectations and environmental regulation, 2-years experimentation was performed on a specific territory with the support of a network of new competencies (B-to-B-to-C market). Researchers were mandated for the sustainability assessment of such a transition but this communication focuses on the environmental performance of the experimentation. The results of the comparative LCA are presented and the main environmental impacts linked to this business model transition are specified and discussed. Then, different eco-design scenarios are explored and recommendations for this specific case are proposed.

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“…environmental checklist…) or a larger set of stakeholders. As examples, design for recoverability (DfR) integrates end-of-life actors (Mathieux et al, 2008;Pialot, & Millet, 2014), design for sustainable behavior (DfSB) integrates consumers (Lockton et al, 2008;Domingo et al, 2013). Consequently, there is a need for active collaboration between the actors of the value creation system.…”

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Inclusion of territorial resources in the product development process

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Reyes

Roucoules

2015

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Facing globalization, territorial competitiveness is considered by (French) public policy makers as promising both economic and social value creation locally. Companies consider territorial specificities when selecting a location (e.g. low production costs, highly qualified labor pool) in a utilitarian perspective. This research proposes encouraging companies to consider territory as a value creation network where exploitable resources flow. The proposal presented in this paper is to integrate these latent territorial resources into the product development process to create value for both the company and its territory in a sustainable perspective. The literature review highlights that current eco design practices have great impact on territories, but that this dimension is not considered in terms of resources. Moreover, current assessment practices are not adapted to overall performance evaluation and need revision to meet the system innovation goal. After clarifying the concept of territory, two industrial cases are provided to analyze how territorial resources were included in the design process and how it improved the overall performance of the company-territory system. From the success factors emerging from literature and cases, a method to release the potential of territorial resources is presented. A revised strategic process dedicated to senior management is proposed as the enabler of system innovation with the intention of improving the design of sustainable products. This paper concludes with the necessary cultural evolution that every stakeholder in the value network must undergo to promote territorial values in a sustainable perspective. This study contributes to the emerging discipline of design for local value creation.

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Why Upgradability should be Considered for Rationalizing Materials?

Cited by 16 publications

References 11 publications

Modelling and optimisation of upgradability in the design of multiple life cycle products: a critical review

Modelling and optimisation of upgradability in the design of multiple life cycle products: a critical review

Environmental assessment of PSS, feedback on 2 years of experimentation

Inclusion of territorial resources in the product development process

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