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Enabling Mass Customization Life Cycle Assessment in Product Configurators

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Towards Sustainable Customization: Bridging Smart Products and Manufacturing Systems (CARV 2021, MCPC 2021)

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Abstract

The demand for sustainability information of products is steadily increasing. Therefore, companies must evaluate the sustainability of their products appropriately and make the results available to consumers. For Mass Customization (MC), this represents a challenge due to the wide variety of product variants. Product configurators have the potential to support the sustainability assessment of MC products. The work focuses on the ecological dimension of sustainability and is oriented towards the ISO 14040 standard for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The LCA of products is integrated into the configurator by including information from ERP systems and sustainability databases. Products are evaluated based on their modules, and generic sustainability data is applied. Both measures facilitate the complex procedure. Consequently, individual configurations of MC products can be assessed and results provided.

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This research was conducted in the scope of the research project “ConCirMy - Configurator for the Circular Economy” (project identifier 033R236), which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

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    Ann-Louise Andersen

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    Rasmus Andersen

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Christensen, N., Wiezorek, R. (2022). Enabling Mass Customization Life Cycle Assessment in Product Configurators. In: Andersen, AL., et al. Towards Sustainable Customization: Bridging Smart Products and Manufacturing Systems. CARV MCPC 2021 2021. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90700-6_93

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