Innovation in Life Cycle Engineering and Sustainable Development

Hardcover  448 pp  ISBN 1402046014      £115.00

Sustainable development is more and more at the core of government and industry policy. Industrial production and consumption culture are facing dramatic changes due to pollution and waste problems, exhaustion of available non-renewable resources and rapid growth in world population. So, the environmental focus has shifted from production processes to the product€s entire life cycle. The potential of technology to create synergies between environmental protection and economic growth has been recognized. Life cycle engineering aims at providing engineering tools targeted towards cleaner product-oriented activities for improving the environment while contributing to competitiveness and growth.

This book is of interest to academics, students and practitioners, specializing in environmental issues in mechanical engineering, design and manufacturing. This volume is recommended as a reference textbook for all researchers in the field. It will give teaching staff confronted with training methodologies in integrated design and environment a tool to assess the scope of the development prospects in an extremely wide ranging field.

Of interest to academics, students and practitioners specializing in environmental issues in mechanical engineering, design and manufacturing; researchers in the field; teaching staff

Contents

• Introduction to Innovation in Life Cycle Engineering and Sustainable Development by D. Brissaud, S. Tichkiewitch and P. Zwolinski;
• Business models: Feasibility and scope of LC approaches to sustainable consumption, by E.G. Hertwich and G.P. Peters;
• A business-oriented approach to the product life cycle, by G. Molcho and M. Shpitalni;
• Meeting the Climate Change Challenge, by C. Rynikiewicz;
• Assessing product life cycle strategies in the Japanese market, by Ogushi, M. Kandlikar, and H. Dowlatabadi;
• Applications of service engineering methods and tool to industries, by T. Sakao, Y. Shimomura, M. Lindahl and E. Sundin;
• End-of-life strategies: Towards self-disassembling products, by J. Duflou, B. Willems and W. Dewulf;
• Indicators to measure sustainability of an industrial manufacturing, by E. Raizer Neto, M.T. Mariotte and R.T.P. Hinz;
• Concepts and definitions for product recovery, by M Lindahl, E. Sundin, J. Ostlin and M. Björkman;
• Remanufacturing of flat screen monitors, by C. Franke, S. Kernbaum and G. Seliger;
• Improving product recovery decisions through product information, by A.K. Parlikad, D.C. McFarlane and A.G. Kulkarni;
• Photocopier remanufacturing at Xerox UK, by A. King, J. Miemczyk and D. Bufton;
• Dynamic process and operation planning for hybrid disassembly, by H-J. Kim;
• Clean technologies for recycling, by H.V. de Medina;
• Identifying availability contribution of lifecycle-adapted services, by J. Fleischer and D. Nesges;
• Product development for sustainability: Designing products that are never discarded, by P. Zwolinski and D. Brissaud;
• Guidelines in ecodesign: a case study from railway industry, by J. Lagerstedt and C. Luttropp;
• Identifying and assessing environmentally benign modules, by M. Voji and H. Birkhofer;
• Strategies and material flow in ecodesign, by C. Luttropp;
• Screening life cycle modelling for sustainable product design, by M. Fargnoli and F. Kimura;
• Using design for environment for redesigning a household appliance, by S. Kara, H. Kaebernick and S. Ibbotson;
• Modular design oftechnical product-service systems, by I.C. Aurich, C. Fuchs and C. Wagenknecht;
• Estimating the environmental profile of early design concepts, by W. Dewulf, B. Willems and J.R. Duflou;
• Product life cycle management: Design for environment by target life cycle costing, by D. Janz, M. Hornberger and E. Westkämper;
• PLM to support hazard identification in chemical plant design, by F. Giannini, M. Monti, S. Ansaldi and P . Bragatto;
• Smart machining systems: issues and research trends, by L. Deshayes, L. Welsch, A. Donmez, R. Ivester, D. Gilsinn, R. Rhorer, E. Whitenton and F. Potra;
• Development of methods to support the implementation of a PDMS, by J. Feidhusen, B. Gebhardt, N. Macice, E. Nurcahya and F. Bungert;
• The role of knowledge management in product lifecycle, by G. Colombo and D. Pugliese;
• A product-process-organisation integrative model for collaborative design, by F. Noël;
• Dynamic life cycle performance simulation ofproduction systems, by J. Niemann and E. Westkämper;
• LC universal model for the enterprise information system structure, by A. Bernard, M. Labrousse and N. Perry;

Authors index.