A new comprehensive methodology for the evaluation of product sustainability at the design and development stage of consumer electronic products | Zendy

Niranjali de Silva | Zendy; I.S. Jawahir | Zendy; O. W. Dillon | Zendy; M. B. Russell | Zendy

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A new comprehensive methodology for the evaluation of product sustainability at the design and development stage of consumer electronic products

Author(s) -

Niranjali de Silva,

I.S. Jawahir,

O. W. Dillon,

M. B. Russell

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

international journal of sustainable manufacturing

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.109

H-Index - 16

eISSN - 1742-7223

pISSN - 1742-7231

DOI - 10.1504/ijsm.2009.023973

Subject(s) - sustainability , product (mathematics) , electronic product , product lifecycle , manufacturing engineering , new product development , product design , stage (stratigraphy) , product life cycle management , life cycle assessment , computer science , systems engineering , process engineering , engineering , business , mechanical engineering , marketing , mathematics , production (economics) , ecology , paleontology , geometry , biology , macroeconomics , economics

This paper presents quantifiable sustainability elements in manufactured consumer electronic products. A 'Sustainability Scoring' method is introduced at the design stage. A new product can be evaluated using this method for its integral elemental and the overall sustainability contents impacting the product when it reaches the end-of-life by considering the entire life-cycle, including the effective residual use of recovered materials in the subsequent life-cycles of the same or different products. This procedure can also be used by design engineers for comparison with a similar product, such as a prior or a subsequent model, or one from a competitor.

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