Title
Evaluation Of Product Recyclability At The Product Design Phase: A Time-Series Forecasting Methodology
Abstract
Nowadays, the society is paying more and more attention to the issues that plague the environment. There is a growing need for enterprises to design and manufacture environmentally friendly products, in order to take up the responsibility of sustainable development of the society. The entire product life cycle consists of design, manufacturing, usage and recycling phases. These phases involve various economic and environmental factors that affect the recyclability of products. Previous researchers mainly focused on the single phase of the product's life cycle. Moreover, they did not take into account the dynamic change of the recyclable material's cost. In this paper, a time-series forecasting methodology is proposed to evaluate the product's recyclability at the product design phase. It considers various economic and environmental factors of different stages of the product's life cycle. In addition, a time-series forecasting method is utilised for predicting the cost of the recycled material at the product's end-of-life. To demonstrate the effectiveness of this methodology, a case study of a cylinder engine design was presented. The results showed that the proposed methodology was fully capable of providing decision support to the designers by accessing the recyclability of the product at the design phase.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1080/0951192X.2017.1368712
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING
Keywords
Field
DocType
recyclability, index, end-of-life, time-series forecasting, product design
Product engineering,Time series,Systems engineering,Environmentally friendly,Manufacturing engineering,Product management,Engineering,Product design,Sustainable development,Product lifecycle,New product development
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
31
4-5
0951-192X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
1
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhi Li147893.46
Jiadong He270.76
Xinjun Lai350.76
Yunbao Huang411.03
Tao Zhou510.35
Ali Vatankhah Barenji6256.69
W. M. Wang781.47