An Axiomatic Design Framework of Sustainable Product-Service Systems for Circular Economies

Abstract

In recent years, sustainable product design process gained notable attentions and evolved having Triple Bottom Line (TBL) accounting perspective. TBL requires integrating environmental, social as well as economic factors at the design phase. Making a product sustainable is important from the customers’ point of view, because today customers show tendency not to prefer non-sustainable products. Besides, customers today are more and more interested in accessing to product usage or functions instead of its ownership. So, in this study, an Axiomatic Design Framework is proposed for the Sustainable Product-Service Systems, for the first time in the literature, so that a complete conceptual design is made based on the environmental, economic and social dimensions for the products that concerns the customer expectations for the circular economy. Besides, a washing machine design is discussed based on the proposed sustainable product service-system framework.