Method Development for Sustainable Product and Service Design Strategy: Polymer Products with Shell Structures

Abstract

Sustainability in industrial design aims to provide a better world for future generations by reducing the energy and resource consumption used in the design of products or services. After the industrial design is completed, the products are transformed into a form that will take their place in our lives through the engineering design process. However, during this process, the features that industrial design focuses on may be lost or damaged. This situation reveals the importance of sustainable design strategies by creating various economic and time losses. In order to minimize the aforementioned problems, changes were made to the mechanical design of the products whose industrial design was carried out by an engineering company. It is aimed to strengthen the mechanical strength of the form with changes that do not affect the outer form. Four options were created for each of the two electricity meter models, the structures of which are shell structures and the products to be produced with polymer materials, which differ in size and three-axis ratios, and mechanical strength was analyzed with engineering analysis programs. With the method in the study, it has been revealed that the problem can be solved without the need to make radical changes due to strength in the industrial designs of product groups with similar structures. Thus, a method has been developed within the framework of sustainable product and service design strategies, and it is thought that this method will increase efficiency in the business model and cause less energy and resource consumption.