Design of Sustainable Product Life Cycles

by Niemann, Jorg; Tichkiewitch, Serge; Westkamper, Engelbert

• ISBN13: 9783540790815
• ISBN10: 3540790810
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-03
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

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 concepts 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 and students 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.

Author Biography

Prof. Westk+ñmper studied from 1967 to 1973 mechanical engineering at the RWTH Aachen. 1977 he doctorate at the RWTH Aachen "with distinction" as Dr.-Ing. In the years 1977 to 1988, he held senior positions at MBB and AEG. From 1988 to 1995 Westk+ñmper was director of the Institute for Machine Tools and Production Technology at the University of Braunschweig. Since 1995 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Prof.E.h. Dr.-Ing.E.h.Dr.h.c. mult. Engelbert Westk+ñmper is holder of the Chair and Director of the Institute for Industrial Manufacturing and Management of the University of Stuttgart (IFF), and one of the two directors of the Stuttgart Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA).

Table of Contents

List of abbreviations	p. xxiii
Introduction	p. 1
The new paradigm	p. 1
Manufacturer's viewpoint	p. 7
Customer's viewpoint	p. 8
Goals of a sustainable product life cycle management	p. 9
Approach of the book	p. 10
References concerning chapter 1	p. 11
Life cycle modelling	p. 13
Process network	p. 18
PSL (Process Specification Language)	p. 20
XPDL (XML Process Definition)	p. 20
BPML (Business Process Modelling Language)	p. 21
UML (Unified Modelling Language)	p. 21
EPC (Event Process Chain)	p. 21
OPM (Object Process Methodology)	p. 22
Framework for a networked life cycle management	p. 22
Defining the product life cycle modelling framework	p. 23
Modelling product life cycle data	p. 25
Product models	p. 27
Definition of product modelling	p. 27
Types of information representation	p. 28
Existing standards	p. 32
Applications using product condition data	p. 34
Conception of the product condition model	p. 35
Class structure of the condition model	p. 37
Shifting viewing levels	p. 37
Implementation of the product condition model	p. 39
Product model for manufacturing	p. 39
Product model from the market life cycle perspective	p. 47
Case study of a life cycle product model	p. 48
Interim summary of life cycle modelling	p. 50
References concerning chapter 2	p. 50
Life cycle evaluation	p. 55
Economical assessment of product life cycles	p. 56
Life cycle costing	p. 58
Strategic portfolio for optimising life cycle costs	p. 60
Standardised worksheet for evaluating life cycle costs	p. 62
Case study of a life cycle cost calculation for a machine tool	p. 63
Continuous life cycle cost controlling	p. 66
Life cycle cost contracts	p. 76
Ecological evaluation	p. 78
The application of life cycle assessment	p. 78
Further studies on ecological assessment	p. 79
Interim summary of life cycle evaluation	p. 79
References concerning chapter 3	p. 80
Life cycle information support	p. 83
Reliable data for transparent product life cycles	p. 84
Digital product tracking	p. 85
Boosting utilisation performance	p. 90
The phase of product design	p. 90
The phase of product utilisation	p. 91
The phase of upgrading and recycling	p. 100
Product data management for high data continuity	p. 101
Using field data to close information loops	p. 103
Enduring design records	p. 106
Digital Enterprise Technology for life cycle controlling	p. 108
Examples of life cycle controlling functions	p. 109
Interim summary of life cycle information support	p. 111
References concerning chapter 4	p. 111
Customer supply networks	p. 117
Customer lifetime value	p. 118
Cooperation for life cycle benefit	p. 119
Integrated product-service systems	p. 123
Developing product service systems	p. 123
Supporting activities and modules	p. 125
Selling the benefit instead of the equipment	p. 127
Industrial prototypes and practical examples	p. 129
Example of the implementation of LCC methodology	p. 129
Example of online process monitoring	p. 131
Example of process monitoring for intelligent services	p. 133
Interim summary of life cycle customer supply	p. 134
References concerning chapter 5	p. 134
Method for the design of life cycle concepts	p. 137
Approaches from a retrospective point of view	p. 137
New requirements call for a new approach	p. 141
Methodological approach	p. 143
Objectives for the design of life cycles	p. 144
Requirements for the design of life cycles	p. 147
Definition of life cycle concepts	p. 148
Fields of action in life cycle design	p. 148
Material recycling	p. 149
Remanufacturing	p. 149
Services	p. 150
Prognosis	p. 152
Creation of life cycle scenarios	p. 155
Use of life cycle scenarios	p. 157
Development of life cycle concepts	p. 159
Idea generation	p. 159
Idea assessment	p. 164
Creation of life cycle concepts	p. 167
Life cycle concept assessment and selection	p. 170
Costs and revenues throughout the life cycle	p. 171
Costs and revenues analysis	p. 183
Users	p. 186
Ecological assessment through LCA	p. 189
Optimisation of life cycle concepts	p. 190
Selection of a life cycle design	p. 191
Synthesis and exemplification	p. 192
Synthesis of the method for the design of life cycle concepts	p. 192
Exemplification of the method	p. 195
Conclusion and outlook of the methodological approach	p. 198
References concerning chapter 6	p. 200
Summary	p. 205
Index	p. 207
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