As attention to environmental problems grows, product life cycle management is becoming a
crucial issue in realizing a sustainable society. Our objective is to provide the functions …

Environmental awareness and legislative pressures have made manufacturers responsible
for the take-back and end-of-life treatment of their products. To competitively exploit these …

The early design phases, such as the planning and conceptual design phases, greatly affect
the eco-effectiveness of a product. Therefore, it is crucial that the environmental aspects are …

Extending product life is one of the hopeful approaches to reduce the environmental issue,
which is one of the most critical issues of today. However, many products are thrown away …

This paper presents a methodology and a software tool to establish an eco-design concept
of a product and its life cycle by assigning appropriate life cycle options to the components of …

Many products, such as cellular phone and personal computer, are thrown away because of
obsoleteness of their functionality, although they still work well. This fact aggravates the …

While reuse is an effective life cycle option in terms of environmental loads and value of
reutilization, reuse has inherent difficulties. Our naïve questions include why component …

This article presents the first general conclusions of a project developed with small and
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) of the Comunidad Valenciana (Valencia Region, Spain) …

This paper proposes a decision support method for life cycle strategy in environmentally
conscious product design. Here, decision of life cycle strategy includes selection of …

This paper proposes a decision support method for life cycle strategy based on estimation of
product lifetime. In order to design the sustainable product life cycles," life cycle strategy," …