Design of Sustainable Product Life Cycles (eBook)

Prof. Westkämper studied from 1967 to 1973 mechanical engineering at the RWTH Aachen. 1977 he doctorate at the RWTH Aachen "with distinction" as Dr.-Ing. In the years 1977 to 1988, he held senior positions at MBB and AEG. From 1988 to 1995 Westkämper was director of the Institute for Machine Tools and Production Technology at the University of Braunschweig. Since 1995 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Prof.E.h. Dr.-Ing.E.h.Dr.h.c. mult. Engelbert Westkämper is holder of the Chair and Director of the Institute for Industrial Manufacturing and Management of the University of Stuttgart (IFF), and one of the two directors of the Stuttgart Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA).

Preface 6
Preface 7
Preface 8
Foreword 9
List of authors 13
Contents 19
List of abbreviations 23
1 Introduction 25
1.1 The new paradigm 25
1.2 Goals of a sustainable product life cycle management 33
1.3 Approach of the book 34
1.4 References concerning chapter 1 35
2 Life cycle modelling 37
2.1 Process network 42
2.2 Framework for a networked life cycle management 46
2.3 Product models 51
2.4 Applications using product condition data 58
2.5 Interim summary of life cycle modelling 74
2.6 References concerning chapter 2 74
3 Life cycle evaluation 79
3.1 Economical assessment of product life cycles 80
3.2 Ecological evaluation 102
3.3 Interim summary of life cycle evaluation 103
3.4 References concerning chapter 3 104
4 Life cycle information support 107
4.1 Reliable data for transparent product life cycles 108
4.2 Digital product tracking 109
4.3 Boosting utilisation performance 114
4.4 Product data management for high data continuity 125
4.5 Interim summary of life cycle information support 135
4.6 References concerning chapter 4 135
5 Customer supply networks 141
5.1 Customer lifetime value 142
5.2 Cooperation for life cycle benefit 143
5.3 Integrated product-service systems 147
5.4 Selling the benefit instead of the equipment 151
5.5 Industrial prototypes and practical examples 153
5.6 Interim summary of life cycle customer supply 158
5.7 References concerning chapter 5 158
6 Method for the design of life cycle concepts 161
6.1 Approaches from a retrospective point of view 161
6.2 New requirements call for a new approach 165
6.3 Methodological approach 167
6.4 Fields of action in life cycle design 172
6.5 Prognosis 176
6.6 Development of life cycle concepts 183
6.7 Life cycle concept assessment and selection 194
6.8 Synthesis and exemplification 216
6.9 Conclusion and outlook of the methodological approach 222
6.10 References concerning chapter 6 224
7 Summary 229
Index 231