Life Cycle Engineering and Design for Environment of the Mercedes-Benz C-Class DaimlerChrysler AG, Mercedes-Benz Passenger Cars Development, Design-for-Environment

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Finkbeiner, Matthias, author.

Conference Name:

2001 Environmental Sustainability Conference & Exhibition (2001-11-12 : Graz, Austria)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2001

Summary:

Mercedes-Benz at DaimlerChrysler has been developing and applying Life-Cycle-Engineering (LCE) and Life-Cycle-Assessment (LCA) since almost 10 years. Extensive experience and know-how has been gained by several complete car LCAs and more than 100 LCAs for parts. According to our experience LCA/LCE is most effectively and efficiently used to support the development of new products, id est as a tool for Design for the Environment.The concept and implementation of Design for Environment (DfE) at Mercedes-Benz will be introduced. Both, concept and implementation are the result of several years of development. Nowadays, DfE is established as common practice and fully integrated in the Mercedes-Benz Development Process.This approach is illustrated by the exemplary case study of the recent C-Class model. The parameters assessed during the development process include hazardous materials, use of recycled materials, use of renewable materials and others. One main aspect of the DfE process was a LCA study on the complete vehicle level and several LCAs for parts

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Publisher Number:

2001-01-3730

Access Restriction:

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