Sustainable Product Development: Tools, Methods and Examples

✍ Scribed by Daizhong Su

Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Springer
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 368
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book offers a comprehensive review of sustainability and product design, providing useful information on the relevant regulations and standards for industries to meet increasing market demands for eco-products, while reducing their impact on the environment. The examples and methods presented allow readers to gain insights into sustainable products. The authors also explain how to develop products with sustainability features by applying tools and methods for sustainable design and manufacture. These tools/methods include
• Regulations/directives related to sustainable product development
• Popular lifecycle analysis software packages
• Environmental and social lifecycle impact assessment methods
• Lifecycle inventory databases
• Eco-point and eco-accounting infrastructure
• ICT and traceability technologies for sustainable product development
• Sustainable design and manufacture
• Integrated approach for sustainable product development
A description of each sustainability tool is accompanied by easy-to-understand guidelines as well as sustainable product development methods. Five different case studies are also presented to illustrate how to apply the tools and methods into the development of real sustainable products.
In view of the increasing pressure on industries to meet the, sometimes conflicting, demands of the market and environment, this book is a valuable resource for engineers and managers in manufacturing companies wishing to update their knowledge of sustainable product development. It is also suitable for researchers and consultants who are involved or interested in sustainable product development, as well as for students studying sustainable development, production, and engineering management.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-ix
Introduction and Sustainable Product Development (Daizhong Su)....Pages 1-12
Front Matter ....Pages 13-13
Review of Directives, Regulations and Standards Related to Sustainable Product Design and Manufacture (Jose L. Casamayor, Daizhong Su)....Pages 15-37
Review of Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) Methods and Inventory Databases (You Wu, Daizhong Su)....Pages 39-55
Guidelines for Selection of Life Cycle Impact Assessment Software Tools (Daizhong Su, Zhongming Ren, You Wu)....Pages 57-70
Front Matter ....Pages 71-71
Eco-Accounting Infrastructure (Daizhong Su, Wenjie Peng)....Pages 73-84
Application of Information and Communication Technologies for Eco-Accounting (Wenjie Peng, You Wu, Daizhong Su)....Pages 85-126
Social Life Cycle Assessment (You Wu, Daizhong Su)....Pages 127-152
Life Cycle Inventory Management (You Wu, Daizhong Su)....Pages 153-166
Genetic Algorithm for Sustainable Product Design Optimisation (Zhongming Ren, Daizhong Su)....Pages 167-190
Front Matter ....Pages 191-191
Gearbox Life Cycle Assessment (Daizhong Su, Zhongming Ren)....Pages 193-219
An Analysis and Evaluation of the Environmental Impacts of ‘Upstream’ Petroleum Operations (Ammar Irhoma, Daizhong Su, Martin Higginson)....Pages 221-247
Environmental Impact Assessment of Farming with Combined Methods of Life Cycle Assessment and Farm Carbon Calculator (Daizhong Su, Jonathan Smith, You Wu, Zhongming Ren)....Pages 249-270
Assessment of the Environmental Impact of Lighting Product (Jose L. Casamayor, Daizhong Su)....Pages 271-291
Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Raised Flooring Products (Shuyi Wang, Daizhong Su, Shifan Zhu, Qianren Zhang)....Pages 293-310
Front Matter ....Pages 311-311
Integrated Approach for Eco-Lighting Product Development (Jose L. Casamayor, Daizhong Su)....Pages 313-349
Integrated Approach for Sustainable Flooring Product Development (Daizhong Su, You Wu, Wenjie Peng, Shuyi Wang, Shifan Zhu, Qianren Zhang)....Pages 351-369

✦ Subjects

Engineering; Engineering Design; Sustainability Management; Industrial and Production Engineering; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design

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