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Product Structural Complexity and Sustainability Impact: A Design Structure Matrix Approach
Hossein Basereh Taramsari, Roshanak Nilchiani
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2025
Editor:
Ali A. Yassine, Christopher Langner, Matthias Kreimeyer, Tyson R. Browning, Steven D. Eppinger
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DSM
Institution:
Stevens Institute of Technology, United States of America
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128-137
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Sustainable design has gained high importance over the past decade due to global environmental concerns. There are various design of sustainability tools available; however, their adoption are limited mainly due to their lack of integration and holistic approach. This research aims to integrate product structural complexity and sustainability assessment methods to find sustainable design strategies. The structural complexity of the product is captured by automatically generating design structure matrix from the product CAD model. The influence and propagation index is used to capture the local and global influence of each component within the product structure. The sustainability assessment for each component is conducted using life cycle assessment and an opportunity score is proposed to find the components with high sustainability impacts and low systemic risks to the design. The sustainable design strategies are investigated through the investigation of the environmental impacts of these components.
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