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Allan Astrup Jensen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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How to Implement Life Cycle Management in Business
LCA Compendium – The Complete World of Life Cycle Assessment, 2015Co-Authors: Eskinder Demisse Gemechu, Guido Sonnemann, Arne Remmen, Jeppe Frydendal, Allan Astrup JensenAbstract:This chapter discusses how business can implement life cycle sustainability assessment into their Management strategies. Life cycle Management is a Management approach that provides business a systematic way of managing their sustainability issues. The PDCA (Plan, Do, Check and Act) cycle is one of the quality Management tools that can be used by companies to implement life cycle Management initiatives in order to improve their sustainability performance. The relevance of the PDCA cycle is discussed to ensure a continuous performance improvement by setting and implementing a well-defined plan, checking whether the ambition goals are achieved or any adjustment actions are needed to continue the evaluation process.
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Life Cycle Management: Implementing Sustainability in Business Practice
LCA Compendium – The Complete World of Life Cycle Assessment, 2015Co-Authors: Guido Sonnemann, Eskinder Demisse Gemechu, Arne Remmen, Jeppe Frydendal, Allan Astrup JensenAbstract:Life cycle Management is a business Management concept applied in industrial and service sectors to improve products and services, while enhancing the overall sustainability performance of the business and its value chains. Life cycle thinking and product sustainability is operational for businesses that are ambitious and committed to reducing their environmental and socio-economic burden while maximizing economic and social value. In this regard, life cycle Management is used beyond short-term business success and aims at long-term achievements. The term “life cycle Management” has been confused with other uses in engineering and manufacturing (product life cycle Management) and in software development (application life cycle Management), in buildings, plants, information Management and so on. There is a need to clarify this term and its definition more than a decade since the concept was first introduced. This chapter aims at elaborating the concept and definitions of life cycle Management as currently found in literature and as extending it from focusing on implementation of life cycle sustainability assessment into business practice to include it as part of sustainable consumption and production strategies and policies. Methods and tools used and the general framework for life cycle sustainability Management covering environmental, social and economic aspects in business practices are discussed in detail.
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Life cycle Management: UNEP-workshop
International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 2001Co-Authors: Guido Sonnemann, Anne Solgaard, Konrad Saur, Helias A. Udo De Haes, Kim Christiansen, Allan Astrup JensenAbstract:On August 30, 2001, the first in a series of planned global workshops on Life Cycle Management was organized in Copenhagen by UNEP in cooperation with dk-TEKNIK. The workshop provided an international forum to share experiences on LCM. The specific purpose of the workshop was to define the focus of a possible UNEP programme on Life Cycle Management under the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative. Life Cycle Management has been defined by the SETAC Europe Working Group on LCM as an integrated framework of concepts, techniques and procedures to address environmental, economic, technological and social aspects of products and organizations to achieve continuous environmental improvement from a life cycle perspective. Life Cycle Management has been requested as an additional component for the Life Cycle Initiative by business organizations as well as governments in order to provide practical approaches for Management systems in this area. The breakout groups of the workshop focussed on the role of integrating environmental Management practices, concepts and tools in a life cycle perspective, on the integration of socio-economic aspects of sustainability in life cycle approaches, including the definition of adequate indicators for these aspects, on the communication strategies to promote life cycle thinking, and on the demand side of LCA. The workshop closed with a consensus that the UNEP/ SETAC Life Cycle Initiative should really include a programme on Life Cycle Management with the proposed areas of work. UNEP in cooperation with SETAC should function as a global catalyser of knowledge transfer and cooperation on life cycle approaches. The key issue behind all activities would be the promotion of Life Cycle Thinking since all break-out groups mentioned the importance of well-prepared communication strategies. Another interesting outcome of the workshop is the clear interest of different stakeholders in the consideration of social and institutional effects of products, in addition to environmental and economic impacts, i.e. a sustainable development perspective.
Guido Sonnemann - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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How to Implement Life Cycle Management in Business
LCA Compendium – The Complete World of Life Cycle Assessment, 2015Co-Authors: Eskinder Demisse Gemechu, Guido Sonnemann, Arne Remmen, Jeppe Frydendal, Allan Astrup JensenAbstract:This chapter discusses how business can implement life cycle sustainability assessment into their Management strategies. Life cycle Management is a Management approach that provides business a systematic way of managing their sustainability issues. The PDCA (Plan, Do, Check and Act) cycle is one of the quality Management tools that can be used by companies to implement life cycle Management initiatives in order to improve their sustainability performance. The relevance of the PDCA cycle is discussed to ensure a continuous performance improvement by setting and implementing a well-defined plan, checking whether the ambition goals are achieved or any adjustment actions are needed to continue the evaluation process.
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Life Cycle Management: Implementing Sustainability in Business Practice
LCA Compendium – The Complete World of Life Cycle Assessment, 2015Co-Authors: Guido Sonnemann, Eskinder Demisse Gemechu, Arne Remmen, Jeppe Frydendal, Allan Astrup JensenAbstract:Life cycle Management is a business Management concept applied in industrial and service sectors to improve products and services, while enhancing the overall sustainability performance of the business and its value chains. Life cycle thinking and product sustainability is operational for businesses that are ambitious and committed to reducing their environmental and socio-economic burden while maximizing economic and social value. In this regard, life cycle Management is used beyond short-term business success and aims at long-term achievements. The term “life cycle Management” has been confused with other uses in engineering and manufacturing (product life cycle Management) and in software development (application life cycle Management), in buildings, plants, information Management and so on. There is a need to clarify this term and its definition more than a decade since the concept was first introduced. This chapter aims at elaborating the concept and definitions of life cycle Management as currently found in literature and as extending it from focusing on implementation of life cycle sustainability assessment into business practice to include it as part of sustainable consumption and production strategies and policies. Methods and tools used and the general framework for life cycle sustainability Management covering environmental, social and economic aspects in business practices are discussed in detail.
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Life Cycle Management Responsibilities and Procedures in the Value Chain
LCA Compendium – The Complete World of Life Cycle Assessment, 2015Co-Authors: Fritz Balkau, Eskinder Demisse Gemechu, Guido SonnemannAbstract:Product life cycles and companies’ value chain dynamics now extend to far-away countries, linking a multitude of end-users with numerous upstream suppliers and manufacturers. The breadth of the sustainability issues of popular concern, together with the complex nature of supply chains from which they arise, leads to serious Management challenges. These challenges have been met in different ways depending on the interests and the institutional context of the actors. Corporations are strongly focused on optimizing product performance through a reliance on life cycle assessment based procedures. Commodity sectors are often seeking harmonized sustainability performance across a broad geographical range. Management institutions and business associations are providing life cycle Management frameworks for corporations, followed up with training, and further research into improved metrics. At regional level some efforts have been made to introduce life cycle approaches, e.g. sustainable procurement, but the formal application of structured life cycle Management is not yet widespread. The different approaches taken by the above actors reflects not only their different situations, but also the lack of a clear universal framework for life cycle Management and a more generalized toolbox that will support their sustainability ambitions throughout the value chain. Limitations of current life cycle assessment methodologies imply that not all sustainability challenges are addressed in a consistent manner.
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Life cycle Management: UNEP-workshop
International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 2001Co-Authors: Guido Sonnemann, Anne Solgaard, Konrad Saur, Helias A. Udo De Haes, Kim Christiansen, Allan Astrup JensenAbstract:On August 30, 2001, the first in a series of planned global workshops on Life Cycle Management was organized in Copenhagen by UNEP in cooperation with dk-TEKNIK. The workshop provided an international forum to share experiences on LCM. The specific purpose of the workshop was to define the focus of a possible UNEP programme on Life Cycle Management under the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative. Life Cycle Management has been defined by the SETAC Europe Working Group on LCM as an integrated framework of concepts, techniques and procedures to address environmental, economic, technological and social aspects of products and organizations to achieve continuous environmental improvement from a life cycle perspective. Life Cycle Management has been requested as an additional component for the Life Cycle Initiative by business organizations as well as governments in order to provide practical approaches for Management systems in this area. The breakout groups of the workshop focussed on the role of integrating environmental Management practices, concepts and tools in a life cycle perspective, on the integration of socio-economic aspects of sustainability in life cycle approaches, including the definition of adequate indicators for these aspects, on the communication strategies to promote life cycle thinking, and on the demand side of LCA. The workshop closed with a consensus that the UNEP/ SETAC Life Cycle Initiative should really include a programme on Life Cycle Management with the proposed areas of work. UNEP in cooperation with SETAC should function as a global catalyser of knowledge transfer and cooperation on life cycle approaches. The key issue behind all activities would be the promotion of Life Cycle Thinking since all break-out groups mentioned the importance of well-prepared communication strategies. Another interesting outcome of the workshop is the clear interest of different stakeholders in the consideration of social and institutional effects of products, in addition to environmental and economic impacts, i.e. a sustainable development perspective.
Jiong Zhao - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A novel product Life-Cycle Management architecture of construction machinery
2017 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), 2017Co-Authors: Hehong Shen, Qicai Zhou, Jiong ZhaoAbstract:This paper illustrates the product Life-Cycle Management architecture of construction machinery under the background of the rapid development of new technologies such as big data, cloud computing and internet of things. The significance and definition of product Life-Cycle Management is proposed before analyzing the connection among three different stages in detail. Then a more vivid system diagram called product Life-Cycle Management house is proposed and described specifically as the basis of building product Life-Cycle Management system. The operating mechanism is also stated and four specific applications of product Life-Cycle Management are presented. Finally an integrated Life-Cycle Management system of bucket wheel is given to show the effectiveness of this architecture.
F. Kimura - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Modeling the Effects of Maintenance on Product Life Cycle Management
2005 4th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2005Co-Authors: T. Hata, F. KimuraAbstract:In this study the effects of maintenance on product life cycle Management are examined. Product life cycle Management systems are modeled with objects, actors and processes. Actors make decisions based on product conditions and other constraints, and activate the associated processes. Maintenance Management systems are described in the same way and the behavior of a whole system is simulated stochastically. From the simulation result, effects of maintenance on lifecycle Management are examined.
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Maintenance: Changing role in life cycle Management
CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, 2004Co-Authors: Soichiro Takata, Frederikus J.a.m. Van Houten, Dariusz Ceglarek, F. Kimura, Engelbert Westkamper, Moshe Shpitalni, Jay LeeAbstract:As attention to environmental problems grows, product life cycle Management is becoming a crucial issue in realizing a sustainable society. Our objective is to provide the functions necessary for such a society while minimizing material and energy consumption. From this viewpoint, we should redefine the role of maintenance as a prime method for life cycle Management. In this paper, we first discuss the changing role of maintenance from the perspective of life cycle Management. Then, we present a maintenance framework that shows Management cycles of maintenance activities during the product life cycle. According to this framework, we identify technical issues of maintenance and discuss the advances of technologies supporting the change in the role of maintenance.
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Design of product modularity for life cycle Management
Proceedings Second International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2001Co-Authors: T. Hata, S. Kato, F. KimuraAbstract:A methodology to develop product modular structures that enhances life cycle Management without reducing product variations of family products is proposed. Possible improvements and constraints of life cycle Management of products that have modular structures are discussed. Modular structures of air conditioning units for automobiles are examined according to expected life cycle scenarios. Well-designed modular structures could improve life cycle Management procedures such as reuse and make recycling operations more efficient.
Jay Lee - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Maintenance: Changing role in life cycle Management
CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, 2004Co-Authors: Soichiro Takata, Frederikus J.a.m. Van Houten, Dariusz Ceglarek, F. Kimura, Engelbert Westkamper, Moshe Shpitalni, Jay LeeAbstract:As attention to environmental problems grows, product life cycle Management is becoming a crucial issue in realizing a sustainable society. Our objective is to provide the functions necessary for such a society while minimizing material and energy consumption. From this viewpoint, we should redefine the role of maintenance as a prime method for life cycle Management. In this paper, we first discuss the changing role of maintenance from the perspective of life cycle Management. Then, we present a maintenance framework that shows Management cycles of maintenance activities during the product life cycle. According to this framework, we identify technical issues of maintenance and discuss the advances of technologies supporting the change in the role of maintenance.