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An integrated approach to environmentally conscious design and manufacturing

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dc.contributor.authorGoan, Meng-Jong Kuanen
dc.contributor.committeechairFabrycky, Wolter J.en
dc.contributor.committeememberSarin, Subhash C.en
dc.contributor.committeememberKobza, John E.en
dc.contributor.committeememberShewchuk, John P.en
dc.contributor.committeememberHuang, Philip Y.en
dc.contributor.departmentIndustrial and Systems Engineeringen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:19:34Zen
dc.date.adate2007-10-03en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:19:34Zen
dc.date.issued1996-06-14en
dc.date.rdate2007-10-03en
dc.date.sdate2007-10-03en
dc.description.abstractThe problem addressed in this research was to develop an approach for the simultaneous green design of products and associated manufacturing processes including demanufacturing concerns. We propose a generic approach called Integrated Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing (IECDM) which can be applied to address problems in the ECDM domain. IECDM incorporates environmental considerations into the engineering design process, thereby increasing a product's total life-cycle value (including its end-of-life value) as experienced by the customer, manufacturer, and society, while simultaneously reducing impacts on the environment caused by that product and its manufacturing processes. IECDM is a novel integration of Quality Function Deployment (QFD), Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA), Multiple Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM), and Cost-Benefit Assessment (CBA). The focus is on process, based on modification of the traditional QFD methodology to incorporate environmental issues and green product-design decisions through the life cycle design activities of synthesis, analysis, and evaluation. This dissertation presents a QFD-based IECDM approach, a mathematical CBA model, and an IDDS (Integrated Design Decision-Support) framework with a design-flow-chart application for incorporating environmental criteria into product and process eco-design. The IECDM problem is defined as: given the customer and environmental requirements, develop an integrated approach for green product design that results in maximization of the product's total life-cycle value (TLCV). Initially. through investigation in the field of ECDM, we specified a clear ECDM domain within Industrial Ecology. Then. we proposed various state-of-the-art techniques that were used to implement ECDM in the literature. After we defined the IECDM problem. we developed an integrated approach that led to a generic QFD-IECDM methodology for dealing with problems in the ECDM domain. Finally, for implementing the proposed methodology, we developed a tentative IODS framework to encourage long-term development followed by an example.en
dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.format.extentxiv, 424 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-10032007-115404en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10032007-115404/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/39545en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V856_1996.G636.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 35301058en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectlife-cycle assessmenten
dc.subjectdesign for the environmenten
dc.subjectquality function deploymenten
dc.subjecttotal life-cycle valueen
dc.subjectenvironmentally conscious design and manufacturingen
dc.subjectmultiple criteria decision makingen
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V856 1996.G636en
dc.titleAn integrated approach to environmentally conscious design and manufacturingen
dc.typeDissertationen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineIndustrial and Systems Engineeringen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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