Selection of product design configuration for improved sustainability using the product sustainability index (ProdSI) scoring method

Mohd Fahrul Hassan, Muhamad Zameri Mat Saman, Safian Sharif, Badrul Omar, X. Zhang, F. Badurdeen, I. S. Jawahir

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Abstract

Generating new variants for design elements of products, structuring them into a complete configuration and evaluating the alternate configurations are essential for product design. Evaluating the likely product configurations in terms of sustainability aspects continues to become a useful aspect of interest to product designers. This paper proposes a new approach for applying the Product Sustainability Index (ProdSI) in selecting the best possible configurations for product design. In this paper, the recently developed ProdSI methodology is used to evaluate sustainability performance of a product. The approach is useful for product designers to generate numerous likely product design configurations and subsequently select the most sustainable product design configuration. An example of an armed-chair is used to illustrate the proposed new approach.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Pages51-56
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event3rd International Conference on Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, ICME 2012 - , Malaysia
Duration: Nov 20 2012Nov 21 2012

Publication series

NameApplied Mechanics and Materials
Volume315
ISSN (Print)1660-9336
ISSN (Electronic)1662-7482

Conference

Conference3rd International Conference on Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, ICME 2012
Country/TerritoryMalaysia
Period11/20/1211/21/12

Keywords

  • Product design
  • Product sustainability index (ProdSI)
  • Sustainable products
  • Total life-cycle

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Engineering (all)

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