ABSTRACT
Introduction is chapter provides a set of processes and activities that could be used to help engineer a product or service for sustainability. Basically, these processes lay out the speciŽc and detailed steps that are required to implement the sustainability engineering methodology that was presented in Chapter 4. e processes are applicable to the end products, as well as the development of the “enabling” products that provide life cycle support to the end products. ey are applicable to any product or service development regardless of its place in the hierarchy of the product structure or the life cycle of the product. Five categories consisting of 36 processes are presented. Each process is designated SEP-n (sustainability engineering process-n):
1. Project framework processes 1.1. Problem evaluation (SEP-1) 1.2. Project deŽnition (SEP-2) 1.3. Supply (SEP-3) 1.4. Acquisition (SEP-4) 1.5. Work directives (SEP-5) 1.6. Life cycle model management (SEP-6) 1.7. Technical measurement (SEP-7) 1.8. Project phase closure (SEP-8) 2. Solution design processes 2.1. Stakeholder requirements deŽnition (SEP-9) 2.2. Requirements analysis (SEP-10) 2.3. Logical architecture design (SEP-11) 2.4. Physical architecture design (SEP-12) 2.5. Document the design (SEP-13)
3.2. Process implementation strategy (SEP-15) 3.3. Technical assessment (SEP-16) 3.4. Sustainability engineering technical reviews (SEP-17) 3.5. Requirements management (SEP-18) 3.6. Interface management (SEP-19) 3.7. Decision analysis and management (SEP-20) 3.8. Data management (SEP-21) 3.9. ConŽguration management (SEP-22) 3.10. Quality management (SEP-23) 3.11. Risk and opportunity management (SEP-24) 3.12. Supplier performance management (SEP-25)
4. Product realization processes 4.1. Design implementation (SEP-26) 4.2. Product integration (SEP-27) 4.3. Product veriŽcation (SEP-28) 4.4. Product analysis (SEP-29) 4.5. Testing (SEP-30) 4.6. Product validation (SEP-31) 4.7. Product readiness (SEP-32) 4.8. Product deployment and transition (SEP-33)
5. System utilization processes 5.1. Operations (SEP-34) 5.2. Maintenance (SEP-35) 5.3. Disposal (SEP-36)
Figure 5.1 is a graphical illustration of the 5 categories with the 36 processes. Each process is detailed in the sections that follow using a format speciŽcally designed to
satisfy the following Žve objectives:
1. To utilize a standard format 2. To facilitate user e¨ciency in Žnding and using the process content 3. To capture all of the critical process components/attributes 4. To maximize the use of tables, graphics, and bullet lists so that adapting the sus-
tainability engineering methodology, which was presented in Chapter 4, would be simplified.
