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Perspectives on Sustainable Product Design Methodology Focused on Local Communities

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Sustainability Through Innovation in Product Life Cycle Design

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The next generation of eco-products, known as sustainable products, must address social concerns as well as satisfy economic and environmental criteria. One of the social aspects of a product is its contribution to the local community. The main driving force of global economic growth currently comes from emerging countries, such as China and India, and it will move to developing countries in the future. To support the development of sustainable products in these countries, a research agenda is presented for establishing a locally oriented sustainable product design methodology. Also, a concept of an extended function-structure analysis method based on a combination of reverse engineering and field observation is proposed. In this method, the scope of analysis is extended in terms of space and time to understand comprehensively the explicit and implicit site-specific characteristics of a product and its life cycle.

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The author thanks Ass. Prof. Shinichi Fukushige of Osaka University for valuable discussion.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Japan

    Hideki Kobayashi

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  1. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan

    Mitsutaka Matsumoto

  2. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan

    Keijiro Masui

  3. Osaka University, Suita, Japan

    Shinichi Fukushige

  4. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan

    Shinsuke Kondoh

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Kobayashi, H. (2017). Perspectives on Sustainable Product Design Methodology Focused on Local Communities. In: Matsumoto, M., Masui, K., Fukushige, S., Kondoh, S. (eds) Sustainability Through Innovation in Product Life Cycle Design. EcoProduction. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0471-1_6

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