A Fuzzy Ontology Based Approach to Support Product Eco-Design
Nowadays, eco-products have become a real need in the world due to the awareness of the importance of preserving the environment. Consequently, companies have become faced to new requirements that should be taken into consideration from the design process
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Abstract Nowadays, eco-products have become a real need in the world due to the awareness of the importance of preserving the environment. Consequently, companies have become faced to new requirements that should be taken into consideration from the design process. It is in this context that a new structured approach has been developed in this paper. It is based on fuzzy ontologies which make the comparison between many eco-design alternatives and the selection of the best one automatic and simple. The use of this artificial intelligent tool allows also the handling and the consideration of fuzzy and uncertain information in the design process which makes the studies in eco-design more efficient and precise. A case study is presented in order to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed methodology. Keywords Artificial intelligence · Ontology · Fuzzy ontologies · Eco-design · Structured approach
1 Introduction Producing eco-products has become one of the main objectives of the majority of companies because of the need of protecting the environment and natural resources. Thus, this requirement should be taken into consideration from the earlier stages of product life cycle. In this context, the eco-design has appeared and different definitions and approaches of this concept have been developed. Actually, eco-design aims to lead the world towards a sustainable future [1]. Platcheck defines eco-design as “a holistic view in that, starting from the moment we know the environmental problems and its causes, we begin to influence the C. Abadi (B) · I. Manssour Laboratory of Mechanics, Mechatronics and Command. Team of Electrical Energy, Maintenance and Innovation, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers, Moulay Ismail University, B.P. 15290 El Mansour, Meknes, Morocco e-mail: [email protected] A. Abadi INSA, Euro-Mediterranean University of Fez, Fes, Morocco © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 T. Masrour et al. (eds.), Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Applications, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 1193, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51186-9_1
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conception, the materials selection, the production, the use, the reuse, the recycling and final disposition of industrial products” [2]. In addition to that, according to Ihobe, the Eco-design concept means that the environment is taken into account when making decisions during the product development process as an additional factor that traditionally has been taken into account [3]. There are a variety of eco-design tools that have been proposed in the literature which are classified generally into four categories: guidelines/standards, checklists, comparative tools, and analytical methods. The most used method of eco-design is the LCA (life cycle assessment) method. This method consists on supplying a quantitative data on the environmental impact of the studied product along its life cycle, since extraction and production of materials to the end of its life, using different environmental indicators [4]. In order to rank
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