DECISION SUPPORT TOOL TO DERIVE SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT CONFIGURATIONS AS A BASIS FOR CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
DS 92: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2018 15th International Design Conference
Year: 2018
Editor: Marjanović D., Štorga M., Škec S., Bojčetić N., Pavković N.
Author: Buchert, Tom; Stark, Rainer
Series: DESIGN
Section: SOCIOTECHNICAL ISSUES IN DESIGN
Page(s): 2609-2620
DOI number: https://doi.org/10.21278/idc.2018.0440
Abstract
Developing sustainable products requires a thorough understanding of the product and its environmental, economic and social impact. In particular decision-making in conceptual design has a large influence on sustainability performance of the final product but still remains widely unsupported. Hence, an Engineering Decision Support System (EDSS) and a corresponding method is proposed which assists system engineers in evaluating and comparing various product concepts in early design phases. In this paper the EDSS concept is elaborated and demonstrated on the example of a pedelec drive system.
Keywords: sustainable design, product lifecycle management (PLM), decision making