Improvement of product sustainability

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

12-9-2003

Abstract

Increasing global population and consumption are causing declining natural and social systems. Sustainable development addresses these issues by integrating strategies for economic successes, environmental quality, and social equity. A Sustainability Target Method (STM) provides a practical Sustainability target for individual businesses and products through determining the relative indicator resource productivity for environmental performance and the absolute indicator Eco-Efficiency. Based on the indicators in STM, this paper formulates the component selection problem such that a company can improve Sustainability of its products most effectively through improving components' performance. The approach is illustrated through an example.

Identifier

0345327744 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

ISSN

10504729

First Page

3548

Last Page

3553

Volume

3

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