Abstract
Green design and manufacturing is a proactive approach to minimize wastes during a product's design stage, thus preventing future environmental impacts. Current modular design method mainly focuses on product functional and manufacturing issues. In this paper, a theoretical scheme of multi-objective modularity analysis for discrete electromechanical product design was proposed. Product physical architecture was represented by a fuzzy graph, where fuzzy relationships contain environmental objectives and influence module formulation. Finally the optimal product modules combining all objectives can be searched by clustering algorithm.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 402-406 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University (Science) |
Volume | 10 E |
Issue number | 4 |
State | Published - Dec 2005 |
Keywords
- Analytic hierarchy process (AHP)
- Fuzzy graph
- Green design
- Modularity