Integrated Product and Production Engineering Approach A Tool-Based Method for a Holistic Sustainable Design, Process and Material Selection

Nowadays, new product developments often pursue different goals. In this way, for example, modern engineering systems should commonly be developed in terms of innovative (lightweight) designs and, at the same time, offer a wide range of environmental as well as economic advantages across the whole product lifecycle (PLC). Accordingly, selecting the most beneficial functional principles, processes and materials within a given product structure, if any, and based on multiple criteria is a highly complex process. Therefore, and even due to the strong interdependencies between the engineering disciplines and the individual objectives, a 'true' holistic and integrated sustainable selection of the actual (functional) design, manufacturing and material aspect is inevitable. Concerning this matter, a stand-alone software tool in terms of a set-based method is developed which supports the engineer by screening potential combinations of functional principles, manufacturing processes and materials regarding multidimensional, i.e. ecological, economic and technical, data to address this issue. (C) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the 15th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing (GCSM).