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An eco- and inno-product design system applying integrated and intelligent qfde and triz methodology

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The green environmental laws and regulations are legislated, implemented, and enforced in many countries and economic regions. The provision of green products and services are the fast growing trend in global consumer markets. Therefore, introducing new products with environmental considerations becomes critical for global brand manufacturers. This research depicts an integrated and intelligent eco- and inno-product design methodology to support environmental friendly green product development. The methodology adopts approaches, such as life cycle assessment (LCA), quality function deploymnet for environement (QFDE), theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ) and back-propagation network (BPN) to achieve eco- and inno-design objectives. LCA evaluates and compares the environmental impacts of production. QFDE transforms high-level concerns of environment into design requirements. When there are many historical QFDE data, the BPN prediction model is trained and deployed to automate the specifications of green design improvement. TRIZ is to support the creation of innovative product design ideas effectively and efficiently during the concept design stage. Finally, this paper presents two eco-design cases of power adaptor to demonstrate the proposed methodology.

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, China

    Amy J. C. Trappey, Gilbert Y. P. Lin & Meng-Yu Chen

  2. Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan, China

    Amy J. C. Trappey

  3. Department of Business Administration, Southern Taiwan University, Taiwan, China

    Jerry J. R. Ou

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Amy J.C. Trappey is a professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM) at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Trappey is an ASME and ISEAM Fellow.

Jerry J.R. Ou is a faculty in Business Administration at Southern Taiwan University.

Gilbert Y.P. Lin is a post-doctoral researcher at NTHU, who received his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management at NTHU. His research interests are in e-business, global logistics management, and green supply chain management.

Meng-Yu Chen received his master’s degree in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management at NTHU.

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Trappey, A.J.C., Ou, J.J.R., Lin, G.Y.P. et al. An eco- and inno-product design system applying integrated and intelligent qfde and triz methodology. J. Syst. Sci. Syst. Eng. 20, 443–459 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11518-011-5176-8

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