Development of pluggable LCA system

Author

Tanaka, Gakushi ; Sakai, Norio ; Shimomura, Yoshiki

Author_Institution

Res. into Artifacts, Tokyo Univ., Japan

fYear

2003

fDate

8-11 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

687

Lastpage

691

Abstract

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been proposed as a method of grasping the environmental load, occurring especially in product manufacturing, in order to design and manufacture products with better environmental performance. LCA is a technique for computing the environmental load of a product over the total product life cycle by performing inventory analysis of each life cycle process and summing up the results. However, since LCA computes environmental load based on a static database, it is difficult to consider dynamic changes of a life cycle in its calculation. In this research, we propose the new environmental load evaluation system, which can consider dynamic changes of each life cycle process by connecting external calculating modules to the LCA system.

Keywords

design for environment; environmental factors; environmental science computing; product design; production engineering computing; environmental load evaluation system; inventory analysis; pluggable life cycle assessment system; product life cycle; product manufacturing; products design; static database; Environmental factors; Manufacturing automation software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2003. EcoDesign '03. 2003 3rd International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tokyo, Japan

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8590-x

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECODIM.2003.1322756

Filename

1322756