2007 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Early design evaluation of products artifacts’: An approach based on dimensional analysis for combined analysis of environmental, technical and cost requirements
verfasst von : Eric Coatanéa, Markku Kuuva, Petri E. Makkonen, Tanja Saarelainen
Erschienen in: Advances in Life Cycle Engineering for Sustainable Manufacturing Businesses
Verlag: Springer London
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The early development process of products imposes to fulfill numerous types of requirements simultaneously. Those requirements are often qualitative and imprecise. The main tasks of a development team consist of grasping and understanding customer needs, refining these needs, synthesizing concepts of solutions, evaluating and selecting appropriate solutions. Evaluating and selecting solutions is a critical stage because various types of metrics are used to measure performances of concepts. This paper presents both theoretical contributions and practical implementations. This article presents a theoretical analysis of resource consumption and environmental impact from the viewpoint of exergy. In addition, this article provides a theoretical answer to the issue of qualitative modeling of early design concepts of solutions. This article opens a fruitful perspective for combining heterogeneous requirements in a coherent and systematic manner by using dimensional analysis calculus.