Design of Sustainable Product Life Cycles

Life cycle design is understood as "to develop" (to plan, to calculate, to define, to draw) a holistic concept for the entire life cycle of a product". Life cycle design means a one time planning during the concept phase of a product in which the pathway of a product over the entire life cycle is determined. So e.g. the planning of possible services for a product during its utilization phase, the way of material recycling, how and which parts can be reused, how the logistics for recycling will be organised or how the product can be used afterwards. So it is a conceptual pre-design of all later activities over the life cycle.
By this understanding the book delivers a really holistic approach because before a product is physically made a life-long concept and utilization scenarios with closed material and information cycles have to be developed. This promotes a real "thinking in product (life) cycles".

The book addresses professionals as well as researchers andstudents in the field of product life cycle management. Different methods in the field of product design, operation and recycling will be presented and finally merge to an integrated method of product life cycle design. Readers will benefit from the holistic approach which enables them to design successful products by the implementation of closed loop product life cycles.

Table des matières

Life cycle modelling.- Life cycle evaluation.- Life cycle information support.- Customer supply networks.- Method for the design of life cycle concepts.- Summary.

A propos de l'auteur

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Engelbert Westkämper, Lehrstuhlinhaber und Direktor des Institutes für Industrielle Fertigung und Fabrikbetrieb der Universität Stuttgart, Geschäftsf. Leiter des Fraunhofer Institutes für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung Stuttgart. 1977 Borchers-Medaille der RWTH Aachen§1984 Ehrenring des VDI§1994 Doctor honoris causa der TU Cluj-Napoca/Rumänien §1999 Ehrenprofessor der Universität Baotu/China.

Résumé

Holistic approach to lifecycle management and life cycle design
Reference work for implementation methods in Research and Practice

Détails du produit

• Collaboration: Jörg Niemann (Editeur), Serg Tichkiewitch (Editeur), Serge Tichkiewitch (Editeur), Engelbert Westkämper (Editeur)
• Edition: Springer, Berlin
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 17.10.2008
• EAN: 9783540790815
• ISBN: 978-3-540-79081-5
• Pages: 209
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 242 mm x 19 mm
• Poids: 524 g
• Illustrations: XXIV, 209 p.
• Catégories: Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Technique > Machines, ingénierie; Design, Industrial Design, B, Management und Managementtechniken, Wirtschaftsmathematik und -informatik, IT-Management, Ingenieurswesen, Maschinenbau allgemein, Unternehmensanwendungen, Fertigungstechnik und Ingenieurwesen, engineering, IT in Business, Engineering Design, Industrial / commercial art & design, Information Technology, Industrial Engineering, Industrial and Production Engineering, Business mathematics & systems, Management of specific areas, Engineering economy, Production engineering, Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Engineering economics, Industrial Management, Engineering: general, Business—Data processing, Business applications, Fine arts: art forms, Design, general