Green manufacturing systems: Integrated product design development

The terminology such as ecology, environmental problems, ecosystems, ecofactory, and others related to environmental problems have been recently used in manufacturing systems, since the modern industries have to consider a global ecological crisis. The indifference to recent environmental problems which may be faced now has been given attention in all engineering areas. In this paper, manufacturing functional requirements such as disassembly, disposal, or recycling are considered in the integrated product design development, which have not been considered well in the preliminary design stage. Those functions will contribute to reduce the waste and to prolong the product life cycle, which also satisfies the business benefits and customer requirements. The concurrent design concepts should be applied to integrate all possible factors. Therefore, few practical concurrent engineering tools are presented in here. The objective of this paper is to develop green manufacturing systems for integrated product design development by concurrent design concept which can give the desirable result in product design.