Development of a design framework for sustainable product design and innovation

可持续发展的概念已经存在了几十年，已经成为我们在媒体、政府政策、企业使命声明，甚至在教育课程中常用的一部分。实现可持续发展核心价值的方法仍然是一个全球性的挑战。倡导可持续发展的一些研究人员和科学家认为，解决这一困境的为数不多的方法之一就是通过制造业的“可持续产品设计和创新”。“产品设计和创新”是所有公司必须掌握的关键战场，才能在当今竞争激烈的世界市场上保持可持续发展。传统的“产品设计和创新”可以被视为一系列活动，涉及的不仅仅是“工程设计”。对这一过程的普遍接受的定义包括从最初的产品愿景，到商业和营销分析，技术工程设计活动，制造过程规划和验证。这项研究的目标是找出如何重组传统的产品设计和产品创新程序，以纳入可持续发展原则，即以“预防”为出发点，转向综合产品开发，以减少对整个产品生命周期的影响。具体地说，我们打算为‘可持续产品设计和创新’过程中的概念生成和评估建立一个集成框架。该框架基于几种工程设计和分析方法的集成，包括：TRIZ(俄语首字母缩写，代表‘创造性问题的解决理论’)，质量功能部署(QFD)、基于规则的系统和生命周期评估(LCA)。

The concept of 'Sustainable Development' has been around for decades and has become a part of our common usage in the media, government policy, corporate mission statements, and even in education curriculum.  However, the means of achieving the core values of Sustainable Development remains a global challenge.  Researchers and scientists advocating 'Sustainable Development' believe that one of the few ways to resolve this dilemma is through 'Sustainable Product Design and Innovation' in the manufacturing sector.'Product Design and Innovation' is the key battleground that all companies must master to remain sustainable in today's highly competitive world market.  Traditional 'Product Design and Innovation' can be viewed as a set of activities that involves more than 'Engineering Design'.  A commonly accepted definition for the process includes everything from the initial product vision, to business and marketing analysis, technical engineering design activities, manufacturing process planning, and validation.  The objective of this research is to find out how traditional 'Product Design and Product Innovation' procedure can be reorganized to incorporate Sustainable Development principles i.e., to consider "prevention" as a starting point, and moves to integrated product development that achieves reduced impacts across the whole product life cycle.  Specifically, we intend to develop an integrated framework for concept generation and evaluation in the 'Sustainable Product Design and Innovation' process.  The proposed framework is based on the integration of several engineering design and analysis methodologies including: TRIZ (a Russian acronym stands for 'Theory of the Solution of Inventive Problems', Quality Function Deployment (QFD), Rule-Based Systems, and Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA).