SYSTEMATIC FRAMEWORK FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF FUONS
Year: 2015
Editor: Christian Weber, Stephan Husung, Gaetano Cascini, Marco Cantamessa, Dorian Marjanovic, Monica Bordegoni
Author: Ostad-Ahmad-Ghorabi, Hesamedin; Collado-Ruiz, Daniel
Series: ICED
Institution: 1: Ferchau Engineering GmbH, Germany; 2: Dynavio Cooperative
Section: Design for Life
Page(s): 249-258
ISBN: 978-1-904670-64-3
ISSN: 2220-4334
Abstract
Life Cycle Assessment is one of the most popular environmental assessment tools. However, due to its comparative nature, assessing a newly developed product relies on having benchmark information. Since data on previous products is bound not to be of identical products, this entails scaling on functional terms (i.e., in terms of the product s functional unit). For that reason, the authors developed the concept of LCP-families for scaling, and that of fuons to standardize the parameters by which they would be scaled. In order to facilitate the development of new fuons, a systematic stepwise approach is presented in this paper. Step one defined the basic functional flows of the fuon, step two defines and analyzes the scaling parameters through a linear regression model, and step three covers parameters that can potentially differentiate between LCP-families. The framework is shown in the development of two fuons in a case study, and their statistical suitability to be used in scaling through LCP-families is assessed.
Keywords: Lcp-Families, Ecodesign, Life Cycle Assessment, Product Development, Functional Unit