Integration of Environmental Issues in Axiomatic Design to Pursue Sustainable Products

Sergio Rizzuti and Luigi De Napoli
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Sergio Rizzuti: DIMEG (Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering), Università della Calabria, Ponte Pietro Bucci 46/C, 87036 Rende, Italy
Luigi De Napoli: DIMEG (Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering), Università della Calabria, Ponte Pietro Bucci 46/C, 87036 Rende, Italy

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 3, 1-16

Abstract: Product design is an activity that must be supported by information in order to allow designers to conceive solutions to real problems that do not introduce further issues, first of all, environmental concerns. Axiomatic design is an approach that provides the possibility to check whether a design solution is functionally valid and it can also be extended considering eco-design elements. In a synthetic representation of 1D and 2D arrays, it can inform designers about the level of sustainability of the product on which they have been working on since the first phase of design when they start to embody functionalities by introducing real components, and first assemblies appear. To achieve this task, the domains considered in the original formulation of Axiomatic Design have been revised, and a new domain has been introduced. This allows designers to take into account all the phases of product life and improve design solutions to avoid introducing structures, components, and functionalities that might be the cause of environmental problems. The paper describes such new mapping among domains and applies it to design a daily life device. The contents of the new data structure will be presented and discussed.

Keywords: axiomatic design; design matrix; mapping among domains; sustainability matrix; sustainable products design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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