Qualitative assessment reveals how design choices affect sustainability in product development, indicating vital insights for practitioners.
Sustainability is a central challenge in engineering. Early architectural design decisions strongly influence a product’s ecological footprint and long-term sustainability potential. Addressing these aspects in the concept phase is therefore essential. This paper analyses how architecture decisions - such as modularity, standardisation, redundancy, and updateability - affect ecological sustainability. The qualitative assessment helps practitioners to anticipate environmental impacts and foster sustainability awareness in product architecture development.
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