Axiomatic design theory as a design thinking tool for mastering industrial process variables inventorying
Vasile MERTICARU, Marius-Andrei MIHALACHE, Marius-Ionut RÎPANU, Eugen MERTICARU, Bogdan RUSU, Vasile ERMOLAI
Abstract. Activities within LCSA approaches targeting Sustainable Product, Process or Project Development, and eventually Societal Resilience usually involve multidisciplinary complexity in inventorying process variables in terms of defining materials, processes, energy consumptions, different categories of costs, or social factors. As long as Design Thinking is gaining field as a general philosophy in many kinds of businesses, for dealing with the more complex problems of design management, the particular idea of the presented research is to consider Axiomatic Design theory as a valuable tool for mastering industrial process variables inventorying. The included case study approaches the problem of analytically inventorying the process variables for sustainably developing a project for a wood pellets micro-production activity supplied from willow crops or alternative biomass resources.
Keywords
Design Thinking, Axiomatic Design, Process Variables Inventory, Design for Sustainability, Design for Resilience, Green Production, Wood Pellets Micro-Production, Energetic Willow Crop
Published online 12/10/2024, 15 pages
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Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA
Citation: Vasile MERTICARU, Marius-Andrei MIHALACHE, Marius-Ionut RÎPANU, Eugen MERTICARU, Bogdan RUSU, Vasile ERMOLAI, Axiomatic design theory as a design thinking tool for mastering industrial process variables inventorying, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 46, pp 370-384, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644903377-48
The article was published as article 48 of the book Innovative Manufacturing Engineering and Energy
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