Lecture 05 (5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4) Flashcards
(Morgan)
System Design for Sustainability (Definition)
The design of a system of products and services that are together able to fulfil a particular customer demand, based on the design of innovative interactions between the stakeholders of the value production system
(continued)
where the ownership of the product/s and/or the life cycle services cost/responsibilities remain by the providers, so that the same provider(s) for economic interest continuously seek environmentally and/or socioethically beneficial new solutions
(morgan’s rephrasing of the continued part:)
where providers remain responsible for the three parts of sustainability, which are social/economic/environmental impact.
Approaches to System Design for Sustainability for All (Three Approaches/Skills)
1) Satisfaction-System Approach
2) Stakeholder Configuration Approach
3) System Sustainability Approach
Satisfaction-System Approach [to System Design for Sustainability][to System Design for Sustainability] (Definition)
Design the satisfaction of a particular demand (“satisfaction unit’) and all its related products and services
- Not a single product to be designed, but all the products/services associated with the completion of customer demand/satisfaction
Stakeholder Configuration Approach [to System Design for Sustainability] (Definition)
Design the interactions of the stakeholder of a particular satisfaction-system
System Sustainability Approach [to System Design for Sustainability] (Definition)
Design such a stakeholder interaction (offer model) making the providers economically interested to continuously seek after both environmentally and socioethical and resilient new beneficial solutions
Satisfaction Unit (Definition)
a functional unit relative to the design problem
(not a standardised quality, it is determined in accordance to what output you desire from the project outcome)
*This is a confusing phrasing within the slides, refer to presentation 5.1 slide 8 if you want to see the source material
Strategies to Design ENVIRONMENTALLY Sustainable PSS (Six Strategies)
- System life optimisation
- Transportation-distribution reduction
- Resources reduction
- Waste minimisation-valorisation
- Concervation-biocompatibility
- Toxic reduction
Strategies to Design SOCIOETHICAL Sustainable PSS (Six Strategies)
- Improve employment/working conditions
- Increase equity and justice in relation to stakeholders
- Enable a responsible/sustainable consumption
- Favor/integrate the low-income, weak and marginalized
- Improve social cohesion
- Empower/enhance local resources
Strategies to Design S.PSS Applied to DE (Six Strategies)
- Complement DE hardware offer with Life Cycle services
- Offer ownerless DE systems as enabling platform
- Offer ownerless DE systems with full services
- Optimize stakeholder configuration
- Delink payment from hardware purchases and resource consumption
- Optimise DE structure
System Life Optimization (Definition)
The design for system stakeholder’s interactions leading to extending the sum of the product’s life span and intensifying the sum of the product’s use.
- OVERALL extension of the lifespan of products of the system
- OVERALL use intensification of all products of the system
Transportation/Distribution Reduction (Definition)
The reduction of the OVERALL transportations and packagings of the system
Resources Reduction (Definition)
The OVERALL reduction of energies and materials consumed by all products and services of the system
Waste Minimisation/Valorisation (Definition)
- The OVERALL improvement of recycling, energy recovery and composting of all the materials disposed of by the system;
- The OVERALL landfill reduction of all the disposed products of the systems
Conservation/Biocompatibility (Definition)
The OVERALL improvement of the conservation/renewability of all the energies and the materials consumed by the system
Toxicity Reduction (Definition)
The OVERALL reduction/avoidance of the toxicity and harmfulness of all the materials of the system
