Approximate Life Cycle Assessment of Design Concepts for Product Groups
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چکیده
Many companies are beginning to change the way they develop products due to increasing awareness of green product development. To copy with this trend, designers are being asked to incorporate environmental criteria into the design process. Recently Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is used to support the decision-making for product design and the best alternative can be selected based on its estimated LCA and benefits. Both the lack of detailed information and time for a full LCA for a various range of design concepts need the new approach for the environmental analysis. This paper explores an approximate LCA of design concepts for product groups according to their environmental characteristics. An artificial neural network approach is developed to estimate an approximate LCA for classified products with product attributes and environmental impact index identified in this paper.
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