Overview
- Holistic approach to lifecycle management and life cycle design
- Reference work for implementation methods in Research and Practice
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
Life cycle design is understood as "to develop" (to plan, to calculate, to define, to draw) a holistic concept for the entire life cycle of a product". Life cycle design means a one time planning during the concept phase of a product in which the pathway of a product over the entire life cycle is determined. So e.g. the planning of possible services for a product during its utilization phase, the way of material recycling, how and which parts can be reused, how the logistics for recycling will be organised or how the product can be used afterwards. So it is a conceptual pre-design of all later activities over the life cycle.
By this understanding the book delivers a really holistic approach because before a product is physically made a life-long concept and utilization scenarios with closed material and information cycles have to be developed. This promotes a real "thinking in product (life) cycles".
The book addresses professionals as well as researchers andstudents in the field of product life cycle management. Different methods in the field of product design, operation and recycling will be presented and finally merge to an integrated method of product life cycle design. Readers will benefit from the holistic approach which enables them to design successful products by the implementation of closed loop product life cycles.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Prof. Westkämper studied from 1967 to 1973 mechanical engineering at the RWTH Aachen. 1977 he doctorate at the RWTH Aachen "with distinction" as Dr.-Ing.
In the years 1977 to 1988, he held senior positions at MBB and AEG.
From 1988 to 1995 Westkämper was director of the Institute for Machine Tools and Production Technology at the University of Braunschweig. Since 1995 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Prof.E.h. Dr.-Ing.E.h.Dr.h.c. mult. Engelbert Westkämper is holder of the Chair and Director of the Institute for Industrial Manufacturing and Management of the University of Stuttgart (IFF), and one of the two directors of the Stuttgart Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Design of Sustainable Product Life Cycles
Editors: Jörg Niemann, Serge Tichkiewitch, Engelbert Westkämper
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79083-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-79081-5Published: 10 October 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09794-2Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-79083-9Published: 27 September 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 209
Topics: Engineering Design, Industrial Design, Design, general, Industrial and Production Engineering, Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, IT in Business