Presentation
Increasing Product Sustainability through DEA Based Pre-Screening at the Conceptual Design Stage
IIE Annual Conference
(2010)
Abstract
Sustainability in products has gained increasing attention, and engineering community is exploring ways to
employ sustainability principles without jeopardizing cost or manufacturability advantages. To this end, we
propose a framework that brings sustainability considerations to the conceptual design stage of product
development. In the framework, two types of sustainability indices, interval and deterministic, are adopted
to work with other design and manufacturability factors. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is introduced to
the proposed framework as the major decision making tool. In the proposed framework, the best concept
decision is selected using a two-phase decision process. Two types of DEA models, interval and assurance
region (AR), are applied in different phases to evaluate different criteria. The interval DEA is applied to the
first phase to handle ambiguous data sets in the beginning of the conceptual design stage, while the AR
model is introduced to the second stage to incorporate decision makers' preferences for solving definite criteria in reaching the best design. The proposed framework can benefit manufacturers in choosing
the best product concept that not only fulfills all the functional and manufacturing considerations, but also
accounts for the environmental concerns.
Keywords
- Sustainability,
- Data Envelopment Analysis,
- Product Development Process,
- Conceptual Design
Disciplines
Publication Date
2010
Comments
This is a proceeding published as Lin, Chun-yu, and Gül E. Okudan. "Increasing Product Sustainability through DEA Based Pre-Screening at the Conceptual Design Stage." In IIE Annual Conference. Proceedings, p. 1. Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), 2010. Posted with permission.
Citation Information
Chun-Yu Lin and Gül E. Kremer. "Increasing Product Sustainability through DEA Based Pre-Screening at the Conceptual Design Stage" IIE Annual Conference (2010) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/gul-kremer/153/