This paper describes a work-in-progress, design-oriented approach to support the analysis of sustainability in product life cycles. The envisioned system provides a modeling method for structuring and collecting information about a product life cycle. By adapting analysis methods from the research field of environmental and social life cycle assessment, it further allows to explore and identify...

As attention to environmental problems grows, product life cycle management becomes a crucial issue in realizing a sustainable society. Our objective is to provide the functions necessary for society while minimizing material and energy consumption. From this viewpoint, we should redefine the role of maintenance as a prime method for life cycle management. In this paper, we first discuss the ch...

This paper discusses the requirements on product model presentations that are suitable for reuse. The aim is to define promising directions for future research by recognizing how the characteristics of reuse entities vary at the different stages of the product life-cycle. Reuse entities are roughly categorized into three types of presentation entities: macroscopic principles for the early stage...

Manufacturers are moving more and more towards the business approach of Product/Service Systems (PSS) in order to achieve greater revenue. PSS have many benefits such as achieving closer customer connection and generating increased profit from manufactured products. However, in order to achieve a PSS which is adapted for this business approach, the products and services used need to consider a ...

Research and experience show that decisions in the early stages of the whole product life cycle, which means conceptual decision of a product’s Life Cycle Scenario (LCS), play an important role in the Life Cycle Cost (LCC), performance, reliability, and environmental impact. This paper describes how to generate and evaluate product life cycle scenarios. The Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP)...

The paper presents simulation-based methodology for analysis and optimisation of multiechelon supply chain planning policies over the product life cycle. It is aimed to analyse an efficiency of a specific planning policy at the product life cycle phases and to optimise the cyclic planning policy at the product maturity phase. Specific software prototypes and applications are described in the pa...

over the years we have witnessed the growing importance of supply chain operations and supply chain management (scm), as supply chains play a major role in every step of the product life cycle. therefore, this paper will dea-based performance evaluation approaches for overall supply chain can be categorized. future perspectives and challenges are discussed

The foundation for the development of successful products is based on knowledge about the characteristics of the product throughout the entire product life cycle. However, uncertainties can arise over the life cycle. These characteristics simultaneously influence each other and therefore the characteristics of the product in the product development and usage phases need to be identified. This u...