Re-designing industrial products on a multi-objective basis: a case study

Environmentally conscious product design has received significant attention recently. Apart from new products' development, environmental considerations may also apply for products that manufacturers have already launched in the market. In this case, manufacturers can also make use of their con...

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Published in:The Journal of the Operational Research Society Vol. 64; no. 9; pp. 1336 - 1346
Main Authors: Achillas, C, Aidonis, D, Vlachokostas, C, Folinas, D, Moussiopoulos, N
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London Taylor & Francis 01.09.2013
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects:
Business and Management
Capital costs
Cleaner production
Design
design for environment
Environmental impact
Environmental performance
General Paper
General Papers
Industrial products
Integer programming
Literature reviews
Management
Manufacturers
Manufacturing
Material reuse
Mathematical models
Mathematical programming
multiple objective integer programming
Objective functions
OEM
Operations research
Operations Research/Decision Theory
optimisation
Product design
Production costs
Production methods
Quality control
re-design
Strategic management
Studies
Sustainable development
multiple objective integer programming
design for environment
optimisation
re-design
ISSN:0160-5682, 1476-9360
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Summary:Environmentally conscious product design has received significant attention recently. Apart from new products' development, environmental considerations may also apply for products that manufacturers have already launched in the market. In this case, manufacturers can also make use of their considerable experience gained over the phases following product design (eg production, use, end-of-life, etc) in order to promote substantial improvements as regards their re-designed products' performance. This paper presents a methodological framework for manufacturers based on Multiple Objective Integer Programming in order to re-design industrial products. The proposed approach includes re-designed product's cost, environmental impact, weight and ease of disassembly. The methodology is applied to a real-world case study, that of netMod network terminal.
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ISSN:0160-5682
1476-9360
DOI:10.1057/jors.2012.104