Establishing sustainable design and development for plastic mold under product service system

Abstract

Face the energy recovery and environmental concerns and policy, the plastic molds design and develop have to focus on the issues of the lead-free, non-toxic, recyclable, re-manufactured, and integrate environmental protection and technology etc. Hence, this study adopts the product service system to integrate product and service to meet consumer demands. Furthermore, this system concept combines the procedures of design, manufacture, and distribution. This procedure of service supply will improve product life cycle for reduced environmental impact, satisfy the concepts of the reuse and remanufacturing of raw materials, reduce production waste, and further achieve the purpose of dematerialization. The purpose of this research is to construct the impact factors of the sustainable design and development of plastic molds on product service. This study integrates expert interviews and the literature review to list the principles of the sustainable design and development of plastic molds; the results of this study sum up 6 capital dimensions and 30 evaluation indicators, which are analyzed through the analytical hierarchy process, and add the plastic mold application process to provide complete products and services that improve the sustainable design, development process, and evaluation criteria of plastic molds.