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Is Environmental Improvement in Automotive Component Design Highly Constrained?
dc.contributor.authorKeoleian, Gregory A.en_US
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dc.date.issued1998-04en_US
dc.identifier.citationKeoleian, Gregory A. (1998). "Is Environmental Improvement in Automotive Component Design Highly Constrained?." Journal of Industrial Ecology 2(2): 103-118. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/72780>en_US
dc.identifier.issn1088-1980en_US
dc.identifier.issn1530-9290en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/72780
dc.description.abstractThis article investigates the influence of environmental, cost, and performance requirements on the design and management of automotive components through a case study involving instrument panels. To address the question of whether the environmental improvement of an instrument panel (IP) is highly constrained, a lifecycle inventory analysis is used to characterize the major environmental burdens associated with a generic IP defined from an average of three midsized vehicle models. A life-cycle cost analysis is also conducted to understand the market forces operating in the domains of the original equipment manufacturer; consumer; and end-of-life (EOL) vehicle managen. This study indicates that the existing set of environmental requirements, in conjunction with current cost drivers and the large set of manufacturing and use phase functional performance requirements, highly constrain opportunities for environmental improvement Specific improvement strategies-lightweighting, elimination of the painting operation, and reduction in material complexity-are examined in the context of existing system requirements. The near-term forecast for improvements is not optimistic. Innovation will continue in a slow and piecemeal fashion until requirements affecting the total vehicle system are significantly changeden_US
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dc.publisherMIT Pressen_US
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Ltden_US
dc.rights1998 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale Universityen_US
dc.subject.otherAutomotive Component Designen_US
dc.subject.otherEnvironmental Improvementen_US
dc.subject.otherInstrument Panelen_US
dc.subject.otherLifecycle Designen_US
dc.subject.otherMukiobjective Decisionmakingen_US
dc.subject.otherSystem Analysisen_US
dc.titleIs Environmental Improvement in Automotive Component Design Highly Constrained?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelEcology and Evolutionary Biologyen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelScienceen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumNational Pollution Prevention Center for Higher Education, School of Natural Resources and Environmentm University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USAen_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/72780/1/jiec.1998.2.2.103.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1162/jiec.1998.2.2.103en_US
dc.identifier.sourceJournal of Industrial Ecologyen_US
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