Decision support model of environmentally friendly and economical material strategy for life cycle cost and recyclable weight

Yuki Kinoshita, Tetsuo Yamada, Surendra M. Gupta, Aya Ishigaki and Masato Inoue

International Journal of Production Economics, 2020, vol. 224, issue C

Abstract: Materials and parts selection in product design phase will affect procurement cost, assembly cost and recycling costs in manufacturing phase. Similar to such costs, recyclable weight depends on material types due to different material manufacturing processes. As material shortages have increased, environmentally friendly and economical material selection is required. Since assembly products consist of various parts made of different materials, it is difficult and complex to evaluate recyclable weight and costs simultaneously in the assembly product design. This selection is considered as a multi-criteria decision-making problem in which objective functions have trade-off relationships. Thus, a decision support model is required to enable product designers to evaluate alternative material in terms of both environmental and economic aspects among procurement, assembly, and recycling. As a method of solving the multi-criteria decision-making problems, goal programming is recognized as one of the effective ways of evaluating the different objective functions simultaneously.

Keywords: Environmentally conscious manufacturing; Goal programming; Assembly reliability evaluation method; Recyclability evaluation method; Recycling; Disassembly (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.107545

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