COMPARISON OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF FUNCTIONALLY EQUIVALENT DEVICES BY WEIGHTED PRODUCT METHOD
DS 70: Proceedings of DESIGN 2012, the 12th International Design Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Year: 2012
Editor: Marjanovic Dorian, Storga Mario, Pavkovic Neven, Bojcetic Nenad
Author: De Napoli ,L.; Rizzuti ,S.; Rocco ,C.
Section: Design methods
Page(s): 777-786
Abstract
The paper proposes to perform a sustainability benchmark among different solutions, related to functionally equivalent devices, by means of the Weighted Product Method on the basis of seven EPIs. Among the MCDM techniques, WPM is employed for its simplici
Keywords: multi criteria decision making, weighted product method, simplified LCA, environmental performance indicators, functionally equivalent devices