The integration of environmental impacts in the conceptual process design procedure can be achieved by combining Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tools with flowsheeting software and process integration techniques. However, current LCI databases assume a given unit process chain for each product or waste, and do not allow for the systematic synthesis of the process chain minimizing the environmental...

In today’s global environment, technology is constantly evolving. Being able to stay up-to-date with the very latest technological advances can be extremely hard to accomplish. As a result of these changes and developments in technology, which often come unexpectedly, consumers are frequently tempted to update their devices to the very latest model. The result is that the life cycle of a produc...

Product Life cycle Knowledge (PLK) is the combination of knowledge about a product across its life time and the knowledge about all processes controlling the product life cycle. In other words, it is a kind of fusion of heterogeneous knowledge about the structure, the functions, the life cycle processes, and the operational environment having impact on the product life cycle. The origin of the ...

In order to explore how Web search volume dynamically influences product sales during the whole product life cycle, this paper collects Web search volume and sales data of movies and does an empirical analysis using econometric models. The empirical results show that Web search volume before the launch of a new product has a positive impact on the product sales in the initial period of introduc...

Product Health Monitoring (PHM) is the process of monitoring usage conditions of the product. Like Structural Health Monitoring systems, they are traditionally deployed during the MiddleOf-Life (MOL) phase of the product’s life-cycle. The aim of this paper is to describe the concept of PHM throughout its life-cycle. Advances in Nanotechnology and wireless nano sensors networks allow envisaging ...

One of the most significant impacts on product development in recent years has been made by the application of data management techniques, which are known as product data management, engineering data management, engineering documentation management, and integrated product data management. The initial objective of applying these techniques was to provide methods for the storage and retrieval of ...