A data-driven adaptive design for achieving sustainable product

Abstract

Compared with the traditional sustainable design that optimizes physical materials and components to extend product life-cycle time period, adaptive design aims at creating a dynamic design process to satisfy changes of product requirements in life-cycle time periods. In this paper, we discuss the key features of sustainable adaptive design to optimize the product design process. An adaptive design method is proposed to analyze the ever-changing requirements to reduce resource consumption and waste. Accordingly, two appropriate mechanisms are proposed to achieve product improvement in sustainability, (1) an approach of product requirements classification is used to dynamically identify and classify customer perceptions, and (2) a mapping between functions and requirements is introduced to represent the ability of existing design to adapt to the changing requirements. A case study of vehicle is conducted to show the effectiveness of the introduced method.