What is it about?
Low-carbon design is a process of contradiction coordination, which involves multiple factors and necessitates abundant design knowledge and rules, thus developing a computer-aided design tool to support design process is urgent. our work is on analysing the design constraints, the carbon footprint, cost, and performance, and constructing the parameters modelling for representation of product cases.
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Why is it important?
The paper discussed the correlation among these three factors, and mapped the requirement onto the detailed physical structure with axiomatic design theory. We integrated the improved activity-based costing and carbon (IABCC) method and the indirect calculation method to estimate the carbon footprint and cost of each phase in product life cycle. We adopted the basic-element model to represent the product cases in case library, and used the dependent function to discriminate the extent of compliance with the requirement for product case.
Perspectives
Although case-based reasoning method can assist designers in accelerating the product design, CBR method is incompetent when the design constraints are complicated for the low-carbon requirements, as CBR method mainly contributes to the routine design. Thus, research on integrating the innovative method, TRIZ, and the contradiction problem solving method, the Extension theory, is essential in adaptation for the retrieved case.
Shedong Ren
Zhejiang University of Technology
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This page is a summary of: Multifactor correlation analysis and modeling for product low-carbon design, Journal of Industrial and Production Engineering, September 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/21681015.2018.1508078.
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