Design improvement of existing product using life cycle assessment

Nowadays, environmental issues have become one of the hot issues. Many of the manufacturing industries have established life cycle assessment (LCA) studies to improve their products performance and it is important for the industry to continue to be proactive in these areas. While life cycle assessme...

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Main Author:	Ong, Cheow Hong
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2009
Subjects:	HD Industries Land use Labor TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/12218/6/OngCheowHongMFKM2009.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.122182017-09-18T10:45:55Z Design improvement of existing product using life cycle assessment 2009-11 Ong, Cheow Hong HD Industries. Land use. Labor TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery Nowadays, environmental issues have become one of the hot issues. Many of the manufacturing industries have established life cycle assessment (LCA) studies to improve their products performance and it is important for the industry to continue to be proactive in these areas. While life cycle assessment (LCA) conscious design considerations have been integrated into the design of products and processes, life cycle assessment (LCA) has not been fully implemented to reduce the overall environmental impacts. By using life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology, it is can achieve cooperative approaches to protecting the global environment and also to compete in the global market. In this project the using of life cycle assessment (LCA) approach to help designer to improve the current product in order to reduce the environmental impacts. So a significant improvement in the evaluation of green consumer products can be approached by the complementary use of the methodologies of life cycle assessment (LCA) and risk assessment, which will be discussed. 2009-11 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/12218/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/12218/6/OngCheowHongMFKM2009.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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topic	HD Industries Land use Labor TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
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description	Nowadays, environmental issues have become one of the hot issues. Many of the manufacturing industries have established life cycle assessment (LCA) studies to improve their products performance and it is important for the industry to continue to be proactive in these areas. While life cycle assessment (LCA) conscious design considerations have been integrated into the design of products and processes, life cycle assessment (LCA) has not been fully implemented to reduce the overall environmental impacts. By using life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology, it is can achieve cooperative approaches to protecting the global environment and also to compete in the global market. In this project the using of life cycle assessment (LCA) approach to help designer to improve the current product in order to reduce the environmental impacts. So a significant improvement in the evaluation of green consumer products can be approached by the complementary use of the methodologies of life cycle assessment (LCA) and risk assessment, which will be discussed.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Ong, Cheow Hong
author_facet	Ong, Cheow Hong
author_sort	Ong, Cheow Hong
title	Design improvement of existing product using life cycle assessment
title_short	Design improvement of existing product using life cycle assessment
title_full	Design improvement of existing product using life cycle assessment
title_fullStr	Design improvement of existing product using life cycle assessment
title_full_unstemmed	Design improvement of existing product using life cycle assessment
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granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
granting_department	Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
publishDate	2009
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/12218/6/OngCheowHongMFKM2009.pdf
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Design improvement of existing product using life cycle assessment

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