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A Holistic and Sustainable View on the Product Creation Process for Mechatronic Systems

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Nowadays sustainability is an important factor in the design and production of mechatronic systems, especially the environmental aspects which will be mainly defined in the development phase and influence the whole later life cycle. This chapter gives an overview of the main approaches like life cycle assessment (LCA) or related key performance indicators (KPIs) and considers their relevance to mechatronic design. Therefore, some methods for the early design phases are presented based on the well-known approaches V-model and design structure matrix. The summary will be reflected with two significant use cases.

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Acknowledgements

The presented considerations and results were conducted within the research projects of the research group “SMART MECHATRONICS ENGINEERING” at University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria.

The author thanks all partners for valuable discussions within the H2020-project “EnerMan Energy-efficient manufacturing system Management” (grant agreement No 958478) and the Project “XLCA CO2 Life Cycle Analysis in early stage design phase” as part of the COMET-Project “Research Center for Low Carbon Special Powertrain”, which is funded by the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT), the Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs (BMDW) and the Provinces of Upper Austria and Styria.

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  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The American University in Cairo, New Cairo, Egypt

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  3. Abertay University, Dundee, UK

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Hehenberger, P. (2022). A Holistic and Sustainable View on the Product Creation Process for Mechatronic Systems. In: Hehenberger, P., Habib, M., Bradley, D. (eds) EcoMechatronics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07555-1_5

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