Using a Product’s Sustainability Space as a Design Exploration Tool

• DOI: 10.1017/dsj.2018.6
• Publication Date: 2019-01-08T03:29:12Z
• Authors: Christopher A. Ma...; Andrew T. Pack; Vicky Lofthouse; Tracy Bhamra
• Keywords: Product-service system; Sustainable Design

Sustainable design is often practiced and assessed through the consideration of three essential areas: economic sustainability, environmental social sustainability. For even simplest products, complexities these areas their tradeoffs cause decision-making transparency to be lost in most practical situations. The existing field multiobjective optimization offers a natural framework define explore given space. In this paper, method for defining product’s sustainability space (defined by economic, environmental, objectives) outlined used within space, thus offering both team decision makers means better understanding tradeoffs. This paper concludes that sustainable product development can indeed benefit from tradeoff characterization using techniques – when only basic models Interestingly, unique characteristics lead an alternative view some traditional concepts, such as weak-Pareto optimality. redesign machine drill boreholes water wells presented example demonstration discussion.