Developing a method for elaboration the scenarios related with sustainable products lifecycle

TL;DR

This paper proposes a method to incorporate Design for Disassembly (DfD) rules early in the product design process by developing quantitative indicators, aiding designers in evaluating sustainability aspects during conceptual design.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach to apply DfD rules during conceptual design by identifying applicable rules and creating quantitative indicators based on functional representations.

Findings

Identified applicable DfD rules during early design phases.

Developed indicators to evaluate disassembly considerations.

Enhanced early-stage sustainability assessment in product design.

Abstract

This article aims at presenting our objective that is to use DfD rules earlier during the design process. Indeed, during the conceptual design phase, designers don't have simple qualitative tools or methods to evaluate their products. There are guidelines that are very useful in a first approach to give some objectives, but there is no quantitative indicators associated to these rules to consider the disassembly aspects when the first choices are realised for the product. So we will present that to use DfD rules during the conceptual design phase, we first have: ?to identify which kind of rules can be applied when designers only have a functional representation of their product. ?to create the necessary indicators to evaluate these rules depending on designers choices. We think that this approach is usable for many DfX rules either if we only consider in this paper DfD rules.