Concerns about sustainability matters have been growing significantly during the last decades. The triple bottom line approach – an often applied operationalization of sustainability integrating the economic, social, and ecologic aspects of sustainable development – has gained attention in companies, especially with regard to sustainable products. Nevertheless, the integration of sustainability...

Abstract Nowadays Life Cycle Assessment is the most popular tool that can be used to see environmental load of a machine, product or process. LCA defines impact throughout life product, from extraction production raw material natural resources, through production, use and final disposal. This method focuses on assessment tested object area ecosystem, human health resources use. very helpful in ...

In order to achieve a sustainable development, circular economy approaches and circular material flows are explored in industry. However, circular information flows remain essentially unestablished. The aim of this paper is to: 1) explore categories and types of product life-cycle information available for remanufacturing; 2) identify constraints for efficient product life-cycle information flo...

promises shorter time-to-market and decreased life cycle cost. However, those benefits are not guaranteed under every situation and are affected by many factors, such as number of available employees, market demands, reuse rate, process maturity, and product line adoption and evolution approaches. Before initiating a software product line, an organization needs to evaluate available process opt...

This paper explores the practical application of life cycle assessment (LCA) to product system development. While life cycle assessment methods have been studied and demonstrated extensively over the last two decades, their application to product design and development has not been critically addressed. Many organizational and operational factors limit the integration of the three LCA component...

Fast changing environment put huge pressure on companies, which have to develop products increasingly faster in order to stay competitive. Change propagation in requirements engineering and life-cycle-management is a key competency to increase the efficiency of product planning. We propose a method using structural complexity management methods to achieve consistency between these two domains. ...

The coordination of complex process structures is a fundamental task for enterprises, such as in the automotive industry. Usually, such process structures consist of several (sub-)processes whose execution must be coordinated and synchronized. Effecting this manually is both ineffective and error-prone. However, we can benefit from the fact that these processes are correlated with product struc...

Business to business cooperation is undergoing large changes, resulting in new requirements on how to develop products, and thereby forcing companies to optimize their part of the total product system. Aerospace business agreements are being made on a life cycle basis where the actual product ownership often remains with the manufacturer. Revenue for aero engine manufacturers and their engine p...

Just like any other process, vaccine manufacturing procedures are defined as a series of interrelated functions and activities using a variety of specified actions and equipment designed to produce a defined product. To assure the reproducibility and consistency of such processes, they must be carried out using validated equipment and under the established procedures that meet all the acceptanc...