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This paper presents two different approaches to support the development of sustainable products. One approach is management-oriented. A sustainability dashboard has been developed to visualize the impact of different design alternatives on sustainability dimensions as well as the technical performance. The second approach directly assists the designer to narrow the design solution space when taking sustainability demands and technical performances into consideration. Both approaches are demonstrated on the example of a technical product. The paper concludes with a critical evaluation and a comparison of the two approaches.
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We thank Marzia Traverso and Erwin Schau from the Department of Sustainable Engineering, Technische Universität Berlin, for the lively exchange of knowledge. This research was supported by the German Research Foundation, DFG PAK 475/1. Furthermore, research about this topic is supported by the Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) No. 21760109 and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 20560124, in 2009.
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Lindow, K., Woll, R., Inoue, M., Ishikawa, H., Stark, R. (2013). Approaches for Sustainability Assessment in the Conceptual Design Phase. In: Chakrabarti, A. (eds) CIRP Design 2012. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4507-3_36
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