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Improved Life Cycle Management by Product Communication

Abstract

Many manufacturing companies have limited insight into the complete life cycle of their products. Insight that is necessary to manage the environmental impacts associated with the company’s operation. One possible solution to this challenge is to apply emerging sensor technology for communicating with products. Despite the current trend of digitalization and use of sensors in the manufacturing industry, there is little attention given to how product communication may improve environmental sustainability. We propose a framework on how product communication can facilitate improved life cycle management, by contributing with needed information for improved value chain insight, design for environment and end-of-life management.

Category

Academic chapter

Language

English

Author(s)

Affiliation

  • SINTEF Manufacturing
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Year

2017

Publisher

Springer

Book

Advances in production management systems : the path to intelligent, collaborative and sustainable manufacturing : IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2017 : Hamburg, Germany, September 3–7, 2017 : Proceedings, Part I

ISBN

9783319669229

Page(s)

76 - 83

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