Eco-Effectiveness of Modular Products and Fleets within the Automotive Industry

verfasst von: Chris David Gabrisch

Verlag: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

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The automotive industry is facing the challenge of reducing its environmental impact to comply with stricter fleet emission regulations. Still, an OEM’s contribution to the targets of the Paris Agreement must consider the entire life cycle of a vehicle, surpassing the targets of the current legislations which focusses on the use stage only. This work presents a concept that identifies the ideal configuration of a modular product system like a vehicle to meet a limited environmental impact at the lowest life cycle costs along the entire life cycle. This optimization is based on the ideal combination of modular product components which are selected by an algorithm based on graph theory.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter

Chapter 1. Introduction

Abstract

The automotive industry is facing the challenge to reduce the environmental impact of its products to contribute to the targets of e.g. the Paris Agreement of 2015. New technologies and innovations are necessary to be able to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of a vehicle along its entire life cycle for a contribution to these targets. Holistic optimization approaches are needed to ensure that the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions of vehicle is done in the most cost-efficient way.

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Chapter 2. Theoretical Background and Technical Overview

Zusammenfassung

In order to identify the ideal product system configuration for single or multiple products, several fundamental terms and definitions need to be discussed. This chapter introduces the fundamentals regarding the structure of modular products, the life cycle perspective, aspects of sustainable development, environmental legislation as well as life cycle engineering and the principles of mathematical optimization.

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Chapter 3. State of Research and Identification of the Research Gap

Abstract

Several prerequisites need to be fulfilled when facing the challenge of supporting the product development by optimizing the eco-effectiveness of a single product system or multiple units of this system. These prerequisites describe the framework of the given problem statement and describe the required conditions that a solution to this problem needs to meet. Some of these conditions focus on the input data and information that is included in the framework.

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Chapter 4. Concept for the Optimization of Eco-effectiveness of Product Systems

Abstract

In chapter four the new optimization approach to optimize the eco-effectiveness of modular product systems and product fleets is introduced and described in detail. At first, the general framework and the layout of the new concept is described. Then, the concept of graph theory and shortest path optimization is explained, followed by the adaption of the necessary network to model the problem statement. At last, the data management, the application of the mathematical optimization method and the data interpretation and visualization is introduced.

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Chapter 5. Prototypical Implementation and Application of the Methodology

Abstract

The methodology that is developed in the previous chapter is described in a generic way to explain the principles of data calculation, data management and the required steps to identify the ideal product system configuration. The individual steps within the optimization framework as shown in section 4.2 are performed with many different tools and software. Before the introduced methodology is applied to a case study, the individual steps and processes are assigned to suited software tools in order to be able to perform the optimization process to identify the ideal product system configuration in terms of eco-effective products.

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Chapter 6. Application of the Optimization Approach to a Case Study of the Automotive Industry

Abstract

In this chapter, the developed optimization methodology is applied to a case study of the automotive industry. The automotive industry is chosen as it has a big impact on the environment. This industry is driven by multiple changes in terms of choice of powertrain, digitalization, and innovative mobility solutions such as car sharing, ride pooling or autonomous driving.

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Chapter 7. Summary, Critical Appraisal and Outlook

Abstract

This Work Describes a Methodology That Helps to Identify the Ideal Combination of Alternative Components to Create a Modular Product System With the Aim to Reach a Given Environmental Target With the Lowest Financial Expenses Over Lifetime and, Hence, to Increase the Eco-Efficiency. If Transferred to the Level of Vehicle Fleets and Absolute GHG Limits for the Entire Fleet, the approach also supports the concept of eco-Effectiveness.

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Backmatter

Titel: Eco-Effectiveness of Modular Products and Fleets within the Automotive Industry
verfasst von: Chris David Gabrisch
Verlag: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Electronic ISBN: 978-3-658-40594-6
Print ISBN: 978-3-658-40593-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-40594-6