TY - JOUR
T1 - Relative Assessment of Indicators in Sustainability Enhancement (RAISE)
T2 - a first approach in the manufacturing stage of products
AU - Mesa, Jaime
AU - Esparragoza, Iván
AU - Maury, Heriberto
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by COLCIENCIAS through the Ph.D. National PhD Program 617-2. Contract UN-OJ-2014-24072, and by the office of the Engineering Technology and Commonwealth Engineering at Penn State University.
Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by COLCIENCIAS through the Ph.D. National Scholarship Program No 617-2. Contract UN-OJ-2014-24072, and by the office of the Engineering Technology and Commonwealth Engineering at Penn State University.
PY - 2019/1/2
Y1 - 2019/1/2
N2 - The estimation of the sustainability performance of products requires tools to provide systematic approaches to the definition of impacts, indicators and comparative scenarios from early design stages. This paper illustrates the Relative Assessment of Indicators in Sustainability Enhancement (RAISE) methodology that is based on the measure of negative impacts generated during any product life cycle stage. This approach includes a systematic process for the definition and evaluation of indicators to compare the sustainability performance of products considering each indicator individually and using a holistic index of sustainability to entail an overall comparison between products from manufacturing scenarios. The RAISE method is developed with the aim of assessing sustainability performance of product life cycle stages and incorporating this assessment into the decision-making process when comparing different manufacturing scenarios. A guitar capo manufactured in polymeric material is used as case study to demonstrate the use of the method. In this paper, only the manufacturing stage is considered; however, the method can also be employed in other stages of the life cycle.
AB - The estimation of the sustainability performance of products requires tools to provide systematic approaches to the definition of impacts, indicators and comparative scenarios from early design stages. This paper illustrates the Relative Assessment of Indicators in Sustainability Enhancement (RAISE) methodology that is based on the measure of negative impacts generated during any product life cycle stage. This approach includes a systematic process for the definition and evaluation of indicators to compare the sustainability performance of products considering each indicator individually and using a holistic index of sustainability to entail an overall comparison between products from manufacturing scenarios. The RAISE method is developed with the aim of assessing sustainability performance of product life cycle stages and incorporating this assessment into the decision-making process when comparing different manufacturing scenarios. A guitar capo manufactured in polymeric material is used as case study to demonstrate the use of the method. In this paper, only the manufacturing stage is considered; however, the method can also be employed in other stages of the life cycle.
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U2 - 10.1080/19397038.2018.1491070
DO - 10.1080/19397038.2018.1491070
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85049608479
SN - 1939-7038
VL - 12
SP - 2
EP - 17
JO - International Journal of Sustainable Engineering
JF - International Journal of Sustainable Engineering
IS - 1
ER -