Abstract
Increasing global population and consumption are causing declining natural and social systems. Sustainable development addresses these issues by integrating strategies for economic successes, environmental quality, and social equity. A Sustainability Target Method (STM) provides a practical Sustainability target for individual businesses and products through determining the relative indicator resource productivity for environmental performance and the absolute indicator Eco-Efficiency. Based on the indicators in STM, this paper formulates the component selection problem such that a company can improve Sustainability of its products most effectively through improving components' performance. The approach is illustrated through an example.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3548-3553 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation |
| Volume | 3 |
| State | Published - 2003 |
| Event | 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation - Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China Duration: Sep 14 2003 → Sep 19 2003 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Software
- Artificial Intelligence
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Control and Systems Engineering