Directions for instilling economic and environmental sustainability across product supply chains

Abstract

a b s t r a c tAlthough sustainability is a frequent topic in product development literature, the often segmented and narrow scope of prior works limits the potential benefits of the industrial application of methods, models, and tools developed by the research community. The work herein has the goal of coalescing relevant, recent work supporting the economic and environmental aspects of sustainability for early stage product development by focusing on the interfaces between product design and supply chain operations. This discussion is intended to highlight past accomplishments and to be a call for action to the research community for the development of integrated methods, models, and tools to support sustainability initiatives across product supply chains. A literature review spanning product design, manufacturing, and supply operations management reveals several near-term research needs, which are organized into four highly promising foci addressing product architecture engineering, assembly/ disassembly operation modeling, manufacturing process modeling, and joint optimization of life cycle activities. Finally, potential avenues for future collaborative research are presented and discussed.

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“…Secondly, even the studies focusing on the integration among sustainability dimensions in TBL are paying less attention to the economic sustainability dimension. For instance, Kremer et al [48] found that the majority of the scholars paid their attention towards implementing environmental sustainability, rather than economic sustainability, during the integration phase of the studies. Further analysis showed that the existent discussions were limited to narrow economic aspects such as "direct, product-related costs.…”

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“…Mani et al (2014) tried to characterise sustainability in processes from the environmental point of view by addressing energy usage, emissions, water, waste and carbon footprint. On the other hand, Kremer et al (2016) pointed both economic and environmental issues across product supply chain aiming at optimising cost, carbon footprint, product quality and delivery reliability by considering geographical influence. Social and environmental dimensions were studied both by (Loucks 1997) to quantify trends in the sustainability of systems.…”

Métodos Para Inserção Da Sustentabilidade No Desenvolvimento De Sistemas: Revisão Sistemática Da Literatura

“…Para Kremer (2016) é especialmente oportuno preencher a lacuna existente entre diversos DfX, principalmente, entre o Design for Environment (DfE), o Design for Sustainability (DfS) e os demais. Isso porque se estará respondendo diretamente às necessidades de tomadores de decisão da indústria.…”

“…Pré -Desenvolvimento (Clancy, et al, 2015) (Romeiro, 2015) (Gazuilusoy e Brezer, 2015) (Jayswal, et al, 2011) (Wood, et al, 2010) (Luthe, Kaegi e Reger, 2013) (Luttropp e Lagerstedt, 2006) (Kremer et al, 2016)…”