Life cycle management: roles of standards

Dr Norman Swindells CEng, FIMMMFerroday Limited

DEPUIS Workshop, ENEA, 2008-04-14

Integrated Product Policy (IPP) European Commission policy to support the

Revised Lisbon Agenda Outlines a strategy for reducing the

environmental impact caused by products Consideration should be given to all aspects

of the product life-cycle: from cradle to grave

Causes considerable intellectual challenge for design with dependence on good quality information

Whole product life cycle

Whole life cycle approach

Information management is every company’s second business

Whole life cycle approach to product and processes should also extend to information derived from data

Life time of product data is longer than the life time of computer software

Requirements for data for IPP

Productproperties

LCADesign

Re-use

Disposalplan

Disposalmethods

Disposalrecords

Computerised environmental information

Computerised environmental information has special problems: Lifetime of information is longer than the

lifetime of any software or system Multi-system communication is needed in

the present time Unknown users in unknown places need

the data to use with unknown systems at unknown times in the future

Sustainable data

Requirements for information: Data for design, life-cycle assessment

and disposal methods that can be integrated with engineering design systems to support the supply chain

Data to accompany a product to its end-of-life phase to manage the disposal strategy with information on design, assembly, maintenance, materials

End of Life Vehicle information flow

Finaluser

depolute

dismantle

shredNational admin

Localadmin

Auto OEM

landfill

Life cycle assessement The investigation and valuation of the

environmental impacts of a given product (ISO 14040, 14044 standards)

Goal and scope Identify system boundaries

Life cycle inventory (LCI) modelling of the product system, data collection,

as well as description and verification of data Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA)

impact potentials are calculated based on the LCI results

Interpretation of results

ISO Standards for LCA ISO 14040 Principles and framework

Overview of the practice, principles and limitations of life cycle assessment

ISO 14044 Requirements and guidelines Guidance on the impact assessment phase,

interpretation of results, nature and quality of data

ISO 14048 Data documentation format For written records, not computer records

SC4 standards for sustainable data

ISO 10303 Product data representation for all stages of the

life cycle ISO 13584

Dictionaries of products processes and properties to support applications of ISO 10303

ISO 15926 Reference data of terms and definitions

ISO 8000 The quality control and quality assurance of data

ISO 10303 Standards for IPP ISO 10303-203

Design and assembly of mechanical products ISO 10303-210

Design and assembly of electronic circuits ISO 10303-214

Design and assembly of automobiles ISO 10303-235

Engineering properties for product design ISO 10303-239

Product life cycle support

Role of DEPUIS

Eco-innovation

Depends on

Correct use of LCA data

Depends on

Correct use of Product data technology

ISO TC 207 develops ISO 14000 series standards for the environmental data

management

ISO TC 184 develops standards for the interoperability of data warehouse,

design data, process data, etc.

Provide

support for

Provide

support for

Conclusions

DEPUIS is showing how the two groups of standards are interrelated

LCA depends on the availability of information from a variety of sources

SC4 standards provide the means to manage the supply of that data and to provide longevity, stability and quality assurance