In this paper, the development of an Activity-based Cost (ABC) model is presented for use in design for demanufacture under the presence of uncertainty. Demanufacture is defined as the process opposite to manufacturing involved in recycling materials and product components after a product has been taken back by a company. The crux in developing an ABC model is to identify the activities that wi...

The Product-Process-Organisation model, PPO, provides efficient assistance to collaboration during innovative design project. This model is dedicated to the development phase of a new product: the product architecture is indeed not yet defined and tasks will be set dynamically during the product development. In an integrated design perspective, development must also forecast each product behavi...

For proper management of total product life cycle, it is fundamentally important to systematize design and engineering information about product systems. For example, maintenance operation could be more efficiently performed, if appropriate parts design information is available at the maintenance site. Such information shall be available as an information infrastructure for various kinds of eng...

Separation of concerns is accepted as introducing numerous benefits into software development and maintenance. In this position paper, we argue for a method that introduces separation of concerns into product line software engineering. The method covers the complete product line life cycle and integrates the different concerns expressed at the different product line life cycle stages.

Cleaner and greener technologies for process and product selection and design have gained popularity in recent years. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a systematic approach that enables selection of cleaner and greener products and processes. Recently, significant progress has been made for the use of LCA for product/process evaluation and selection, however, its use in process design and environ...

The design of products greatly influences the performance of the product in the rest of the product’s life-cycle phases, e.g. manufacturing, use/maintenance and end-of-life processes. In order to design more sustainable products, information from all life-cycle phases should be implemented in structured ways via e.g. eco-design tools in the design process. Remanufacturing is one viable end-of-l...

The paper describes a set of seven fundamental principles for achieving “best concurrency and simultaneity.” The concurrent approach is gaining worldwide attention at this moment. The paralleling of life-cycle activities and process restructuring are being deemed necessary by more and more industries. An automobile product development process example is used in this paper to illustrate many asp...

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...