Abstract
New product development review article aims to consolidate the principles and current literature on design for sustainability to seek the field’s future direction. In this point of view, the design for sustainability methods can be established under the idea of sustainability in dimensions of ecology, economy and social pillars. Design for sustainability concept is implemented in concurrent engineering, including concept, embodiment and detail design processes. Integrating sustainability in engineering designs is crucial to producing greener products, system innovation, and services aligned with current market demand. Currently, many concurrent engineering studies related to natural fibre-reinforced polymer composites associated with sustainability enhance the application of design for sustainability techniques by professional designers. However, the current literature is scarce in bridging the design for sustainability concept with concurrent engineering during the design development stage, and these areas should be further developed. Several other future research directions, such as the need for aligning with principles and applications, along with exploring the relationships between the design for sustainability techniques and views of sustainability, are presented in this review paper.
Highlights
This review paper established an informative summary of biocomposites which covered the broad spectrum of biocomposite product development involving the design of sustainability and other concurrent engineering techniques
The idea of implementing natural fibre-composites aligned with the design of sustainability (DfS) because it caters to four main pillars of sustainability during the procurement of the raw materials, design process, manufacturing products and functionality for end-users
The DfS would be an umbrella for product development, and subsequently, an optimization of ecological view, institutional policy, commercial economics and social benefits can be grasped concurrently
Summary
In the past few years, the development of various bio-based products with enhanced and high performance to cater to long-term environmental issues. This issue has raised concern among engineers and researchers due to the limited and scarcity of conventional resources on a global scale [1–3]. Since the limitation of these conventional-based material resources has escalated the global demand, which contributes to a significant increase in the price value of the raw materials. This led the world society to shift their interest toward more environmentally friendly based materials such as natural fibres, biopolymers and biocomposites [5–7]
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