A Decision Tool for Product Configuration Designs Based on Sustainability Performance Evaluation

Abstract:

In recent years, evaluating sustainability performance of designed products has been demanded by legislations before manufacturing the products. These legislations are aimed to force manufacturers to implement sustainable end-of-life strategies in the product development phase. Although a number of studies have been conducted on integrating sustainability elements during product design and development, a tool to assist product designers in making final decision of the designed products with the most sustainability content among the alternative configuration designs has not been comprehensively investigated. In this paper, a decision tool is proposed in order to fulfill those needs. The sustainability performance is measured using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) by providing a weightage of sustainability metrics throughout the total products life-cycle. An example of an armed chair is used to demonstrate this tool. This decision tool provides a new and comprehensive basis for developing sustainable products in the future.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 903)
• Pages: 384-389
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.903.384
• Online since: February 2014
• Authors: Mohd Fahrul Hassan*, Muhamad Zameri Mat Saman, Safian Sharif, Omar Badrul
• Keywords: Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Configuration Design, Product Design and Development, Sustainability Evaluation, Sustainable Products

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