Digitally integrated sustainability assessment of design characteristics – A systematic review
DS 133: Proceedings of the 35th Symposium Design for X (DFX2024)
Year: 2024
Editor: Dieter Krause; Kristin Paetzold-Byhain; Sandro Wartzack
Author: Till Tschiltschke; Theresa Riedelsheimer; Kai Lindow
Series: DfX
Institution: Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design technology IPK; Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design technology IPK; Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design technology IPK
Page(s): 065-074
DOI number: 10.35199/dfx2024.07
Abstract
The optimization of a product design with regard to sustainability criteria requires a predictive assessment of the lifecycle-wide impact. This paper presents a Systematic Literature Review to explore the integration of sustainability assessments in product design. It highlights the lack of correlation between lifecycle assessment results and design characteristics (DC). To address the gap in current approaches, it proposes a conceptual architecture, which semantically connects design characteristics with lifecycle impacts throughout a lifecycle design schema, facilitating automated lifecycle assessment (LCA) and enhancing design optimization. Future research topics are presented which focus on developing the semantic representation and the implementation in an industrial use case.
Keywords: Design for Sustainability, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Digital Integration, Computer Aided Design (CAD)