Carbon foot print analysis integration with DFMA concept: A case study

Abstract

In recent years, the processing industries have been obliged to give more priority to environmental safety in order to achieve the sustainability goals set out in the legislation. The industries are presently working towards the objective of producing a complete product with less impact on environmental context, and reduced cost with minimum time. The environmental impact can be reduced by controlling the emission of Carbon dioxide (CO2) from the production industries. The article describes CO2 savings rate evaluation at product design stage, which estimates the environmental damage caused by the materials in the production context. The integration approach of carbon footprint assessment and the traditional design-for-manufacturing and assembly approach is deployed in this work. The potential of DFMA concept enables to achieve the reduced cost and time in terms of minimizing the number of parts without affecting the functionalities of a product. Where, the carbon footprint analysis adopted to obtain the emission of CO2 from the production process in the industrial context. The carbon foot print and design of components have been obtained with the help of SolidWorks software and analysis performed with support of ANSYS software. In addition, the computer vision algorithms are deployed to generate the demonstration phase for the appropriate process.Consequently, the outcomes of integrated approach have been contrasted with the conventional DFMA in order to verify the effectiveness of the integration strategy in terms of proposed objectives. The case study of piston assembly has been adopted in this work in order to evaluate effectiveness of the proposed integration approach in this work.