Product sustainability improvement based on performance of product components

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

7-17-2003

Abstract

The Sustainability Target Method (STM) provides a practical sustainability target for individual businesses and products through determining the relative indicator Resource Productivity (RP) for environmental performance and the absolute indicator Eco-Efficiency (EE) for sustainability. This paper investigates an optimal decision-making approach for a company to improve its product's sustainability using the STM indicators RP and EE of the product components. Sensitivity analysis is used to provide a methodology to indicate which components should receive attention to make the overall product more sustainable. The feasibility of the approach is validated using a case study of a generalized product consisting of multiple components, which relates easily to circuit board assemblies and other types of electronic products.

Identifier

0037675781 (Scopus)

Publication Title

IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment

First Page

224

Last Page

229

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