Investigation on Multi-Criteria Decision Making Methods Application in Sustainable Product Design

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12928/spekta.v3i1.5962

Keywords:

Sustainability, Sustainable Product design, Multi Criteria Decision Making, Literature review, product life cycle

Abstract

Background: Integrating sustainability development' aspects in the design process is becoming, a growth area in companies. Consequently, sustainable product design has to consider the different aspects of sustainability throughout its life cycle phases in addition of other requirements. This integration is becoming more complicated due the difficulty of managing the constraints and alternatives related to the product and stakeholders needs. This study aims to highlights the most used Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) tools and methods used in sustainable product design process.

Contribution: Product design process involves interesting decisional tasks such as the choice of materials, standard parts, technical solutions. Hence, the contribution of this work is to help designer to adopt relevant MCDM tools and methods that can be integrated to other tools to facilitate and to justify their decisional tasks.

Method: Several methods have been affected to solve the problems related to this complexity such as MCDM. A literature review was conducted based on Siencedirect and GoogleScholar articles databases. After filtering more than 200 articles only 62 articles were considered to analyze the correlation between sustainable product design and MCDM.

Results: Classified MCDM use according to the type of choices to achieve SPD goals. This paper allowed us to find matches between MCDM methods and SPD problem. The majority of case studies result show that a large portion of sustainable design methods, techniques, and tools are applied to the sustainable product’ along its different life cycle phases

Conclusion: It is noticed that the use of MCDM methods are an important outcome in the sustainable product design process and deeply helps designers to make suitable choices. Also, several matches relating MCDM, other methods and sustainable product design sphere are discussed

Author Biographies

Wafa Guebsi, University of Sfax

Higher Institute of Industrial Management, OLID Laboratory 

Alaeddine Zouari, University of Sfax, Higher Institute of industrial Management, OLID laboratory, Tunisia

Dr. Alaeddine Zouari obtained his PhD in 2007 in Industrial Engineering from Grenoble Institute of Technology, France and in Mechanical engineering from National School of engineers of Sfax, Tunisia. He is an Assistant Professor at Higher Institute of Industrial Management of Sfax and member of OLID laboratory, University of Sfax, Tunisia. He was responsible of the master Innovation and Technology Management. His research activities deal with product design, supply chain management, waste management and life cycle sustainability assessment.

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2022-06-14

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Guebsi, W., & Zouari, A. (2022). Investigation on Multi-Criteria Decision Making Methods Application in Sustainable Product Design. SPEKTA (Jurnal Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat : Teknologi Dan Aplikasi), 3(1), 91–104. https://doi.org/10.12928/spekta.v3i1.5962

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Product Design and Development