A comprehensive framework for automotive sustainability assessment

Jasiński, Dominik; Meredith, James O.; Kirwan, Kerry

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.07.027

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“…For example, sustainability and regulations can be one of the most significant drivers of technology development in the automotive industries, which may be conflicting requirements to business efficiency. Recognizing the existence of such conflicting requirements, previous studies have proposed a framework for automotive sustainability assessment [51]. According to Sachs, the following four criteria-ecological, economic, social and political sustainability-need to be met to make a system sustainable [52].…”

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R&D Project Selection Incorporating Customer-Perceived Value and Technology Potential: The Case of the Automobile Industry

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Abstract:As user-centric innovation has recently emerged as a successful way of developing new products, services, and concepts, it is worth considering the perspectives of potential technology users during R&D project selection processes. Nevertheless, little effort has been made to reflect customer-perceived value in establishing selection criteria, with the focus mainly on technological potential instead. Therefore, this study aims to develop an R&D project selection model incorporating not only technological potential but also customer-perceived value. For this purpose, a new R&D project evaluation model and process is proposed, and its feasibility is tested by potential users in a real scenario. The automobile industry is suitable for our evaluation model because it is a B2C and system-based industry where customer needs are critical to market success and a number of R&D projects are proposed every year. Finally, a supporting tool is developed to help interact with various evaluators and visualize the evaluation results, as customer involvement is recommended for accurate project evaluation from the perspective of technology users. This study is one of the earliest attempts to reflect customer-perceived value in R&D project selection, and practically, the research outputs are expected to be useful to automobile manufacturers in creating value from R&D projects.

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“…This positive image can positively influence the revenue of a companyfor the automotive industry, 5.7% of revenues can be attributed to the sustainability image (Biesalski & Company, 2014). The existing approaches that try to assess the impacts on the three dimensions of sustainability in the automotive industry target the company level (Jasiński et al, 2016;Azevedo & Barros, 2017;Fritz et al, 2018). The approach by Azevedo & Barros (2017) developed a tool that took data for assessing the impacts on the triple bottom line for UK based automotive manufacturers.…”

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“…The approach by Azevedo & Barros (2017) developed a tool that took data for assessing the impacts on the triple bottom line for UK based automotive manufacturers. Jasiński et al (2016) selected a set of sustainability assessment criteria from the literature and in combination with the results of 24 interviews with automotive experts they suggested 26 midpoint and 9 end-point environmental, resource, social and economic impact categories. The method of Fritz et al (2018) focused more on the assessment of supply chain sustainability in the automotive industry.…”

Section: Sustainability In the Automotive Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They propose to assess governance, environmental and social indicators on company level. Regarding product sustainability there is no clear consensus on what the automotive sustainability assessment criteria are (Jasiński et al, 2016). Mostly, only environmental aspects are considered except for the Product Sustainability Index (PSI) that has been started by Ford in 2006 (Jasiński et al, 2016).…”

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Introducing a product sustainability budget at an automotive company—one option to increase the use of LCSA results in decision-making processes

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Lehmann

Kantner³

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Int J Life Cycle Assess

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Purpose:The assessment and improvement of sustainability impacts of products is integral to achieve sustainable development. A way to assess the impact of a product over its entire life cycle on all three dimensions of sustainability (environment, economy and society) is Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA). LCSA suggests to carry out three complementary assessments: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Life Cycle Costing (LCC) and Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA). While LCA is widely applied across various industries, the use of LCSA at industrial companies is still scarce. This is, inter alia, due to the challenges in data acquisition in S-LCA and missing support in decision making based on LCSA results as well as their implementation in the decision processes at companies. This thesis aims at remediating these shortcomings to achieve its overarching goal: Increasing the applicability of LCSA to identify and implement product sustainability improvement potential. For this, three research objectives were defined to address the main impediments. First, an approach to select social indicators and to focus primary data collection in S-LCA. Second, a method to interpret LCSA results for decision makers. Third, a mechanism to integrate LCSA based results into product-related decision making at an automotive company. Methods:To put the LCSA framework into practice at an automotive company, it was applied to the component level of a vehicle to assess the impact of every component over its life cycle. In the proposed framework, criticality scores for every LCSA dimension were defined. They were calculated based on the relative performance of a component in the respective LCSA dimension (LCA, LCC and S-LCA) to the rest of the components of the assessed vehicle. This conceptual approach formed the bearing for the integration of the individual research objectives. The three research objectives were addressed in individual publications. The results of these separate papers were combined to increase the applicability of the conceptual approach of the LCSA framework. Multi-Regional Input-Output (MRIO) databases were assessed regarding their possible use to address the first research objective.The findings were applied to enable an assessment of the S-LCA dimension in the LCSA framework.A study on the weighting of sustainability dimensions by decision makers in an automotive company was carried out to tackle the second research objective. The results were used to determine an overall LCSA impact result for every component of a vehicle. To address the third research objective, the customer added value of product sustainability features was investigated. The results were used to create a mechanism that enabled the integration of the assessment results of the LCSA framework alongside other indicators in product-related decision processes at an automotive company. Results:Supply chain analysis based on MRIO analysis did not offer substantial support for focusing primary data collection in S-LCA. Therefore, a material-based appr...

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“…If production waste can be minimized or re-used, the resource and material impact of composite components can be improved. 1,2 Granted, manufacturing waste volumes are fabrication method and sector dependent, with feedstock waste ranging from 7 to 46% in R&D enterprises, and large aerospace companies estimating 30 to 50% of production materials become scrap. 3 Landfilling this high-value resource as waste is both damaging to the environment and costly.…”

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Resource-friendly carbon fiber composites: combining production waste with virgin feedstock

Kratz

Low

Fox

2017

Advanced Manufacturing: Polymer & Composites Science

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A comprehensive framework for automotive sustainability assessment

Cited by 69 publications

References 40 publications

R&D Project Selection Incorporating Customer-Perceived Value and Technology Potential: The Case of the Automobile Industry

R&D Project Selection Incorporating Customer-Perceived Value and Technology Potential: The Case of the Automobile Industry

Introducing a product sustainability budget at an automotive company—one option to increase the use of LCSA results in decision-making processes

Resource-friendly carbon fiber composites: combining production waste with virgin feedstock

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