Romain Allais

Sustainable Product Lifecycle Management and Territoriality: New Structure for PLM

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a business strategy, which aims to streamline the flow of information about products and related processes throughout the whole product’s Lifecycle such that the right information in the right context at the right time can be made available. Recently some studies have been presented on general capabilities of PLM to improve sustainability paradigm, but the subject is still not solved completely. In this paper, first a critical review on the recent advances of Sustainable PLM is presented then a new structure for PLM is proposed based on combination of geographical information systems (GIS) and Lifecycle assessment (LCA), to reach an improvement on sustainable development in territorial scale for achieving a more sustainable paradigm in global scale.

ECO-DESIGN IN THE PUPPET WORLD, A CO-LEARNING PROCESS

Ecodesign has been widely explored in the development process of consumer and capital goods. This study focuses on the environmental assessment of puppets. The methodological approach is inductive and propose to adapt analytical tools from ecodesign to cultural goods specificities. First, a generic puppet design process emerged from interviews of 6 puppet makers. Then, a life cycle inventory study is performed and main environmental issues are discussed. Finally, crossfertilization between puppet design and engineering design are highlighted in research perspectives.