Sustainable products: a presentation

DESARROLLO SUSTENTABLE EN LA INDUSTRIA: INTRODUCCION AL ANALISIS DE CICLO DE VIDA Y APLICACIONES

Alumno: Luis Gustavo García Conejo
May 30, 2020
Introduction

WHAT IS A
PRODUCT?
Objective
Identify tendencies in tools related to product development.
Research Questions

• what are the

• How are the
tendencies in tools
products characterized
used to create
from the perspective
products more
of sustainability?
sustainable?
Literature
review
Marques et al. Performed a review
which highlights the most cited
studies about product
development. These studies were
obtained using the keywords
“sustainable product
development” in Scopus and
sorted by the number of citations
Literature review
Sustainable product design and development: A review of tools, applications
and research prospects (Ahmad et al., 2018)
Literature review

(Telenko et al, 2016)

Reference: https://uxmag.com/articles/solving-the-problem-of-design-with-karl-ulrich
Literature review
Software comparison:

Sustainable Minds, CES Edupack, SimaPro, multicriteria

tool (Borja et al., 2014).

GaBi, SolidWorks sustainability (Morbidoni et al., 2011).

GaBi, SimaPro (Hermann & Moltesen, 2015).

Method
Search of
information

Categories’
definition

Results
Search of information

LOOKING FOR TOOLS WHICH DATABASES, SEARCH ENGINES,

DEFINE A PRODUCT SUSTAINABLE ETC.
Search of information
•Use of keywords related to: “sustainable
products”, “comparative study of sustainable
tools”, “sustainable parameters”,
“sustainable certifications”, “sustainable
principles”.
•Studies referenced, most cited,
 Six categories were defined: design for
sustainability tools, LCA tools, literature tools,
Categorization awards and distinctions, certifications and
principles and manifestos.
DfE tools: Software, guidelines, table (Telenko et al., 2016).

LCA tools offers a quantitative approach (Rossi et al., 2006).

Literature tools are less mature compared to LCA and DfE (Tarne
et al., 2017).

Awards and distinctions define how sustainable a product can

Categorization
be by its rules.
Certifications and the group of indicators category help
companies to measure the sustainability on a larger scale (Joung
et al., 2013).
Principles and manifestos list documents that “declare the
fundamental criteria or philosophy of individual or groups” (Oh,
2017).
Results
Results
Results
Sustainable dimensions in tools
20
18
16
14 10
12
10 7
1
8 1 0
6 2 2 5

4 8 2 9 8
2 5 4
3
0 0 0
Design tools LCA tools Literature tools Awards and Certifications and Principles and
Distinctions group of indicators manifestos
1 2 3
Results
Sustainable dimensions in tools
20

18

16

14 10

12

10 7
1
8 1
0

6 100% 2 100% 2
5

4 9
8 2 8

2
66%3 100%
5
4

0 0 0
Design tools LCA tools Literature tools Awards and Certifications and Principles and
Distinctions group of indicators manifestos
1 2 3
Conclusions and Future Work

In contrast, certifications,
and principles and
Design, LCA, and awards manifestos have a more
categories tend to holistic approach to
Tools define the
consider only the sustainability. Even when
sustainable characteristic
environmental dimension the first of them are used
of sustainability. in the final stages of
product development to
qualify the product.
 Reference: https://web.archive.org/web/20080916071647/http://www.mel.nist.gov/programs/pbookweb.pdf
Conclusions and Future Work

Reference: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Product-design-steps-Adapted-from-KT-Ulrich-and-SD-Eppinger-Product-Design-and_fig3_269463668
Conclusions
and Future
Work
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Thank you.
Ing. Luis Gustavo García Conejo
luisgarciaco@gmail.com