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Consumers are increasingly accepting of items based on a sustainable design or project; as a result, corporations should consider these several characteristics while developing new products.
In this work we intend to analyse the environmental impact of the production and manufacturing from the conception and design stage, up to the disassembly of the products, using software and simulation routines dedicated to the assessment of the environmental impact of the materials, production, distribution and end-of-life strategies using the SOLIDWORKS Sustainability.
The work is divided into several parts: definition of sustainability in the development of products; legal proceeding; environmental impact analysis studies throughout the life cycle assessment (LCA) of a product; case study of a plastic cup. The environmental impact of materials will be studied from the stage of obtaining raw materials, through transport, production, use and disposal (or restart as a new product) supported by the concept of circular economy.
Finally, simulations of production process variables will be carried out to minimize the environmental impact, reduce waste and energy, which will have multiple beneficial implications for the industry.
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Honório, J., Simões, A., Galvão, M., Neves, F., Galvão, J. (2023). Design Sustainable Products in a Circular Economy Context. In: Duque de Brito, P.S., et al. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Water Energy Food and Sustainability (ICoWEFS 2022). ICoWEFS 2022. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26849-6_19
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