Echevarría Sotomayor, Luis A.

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Development of a life cycle assessment benefit assessment for the benefit evaluation of products and processes
(2009) Echevarría Sotomayor, Luis A.; Baigés Valentín, Iván J.; College of Engineering; Ruiz, Orlando E.; Rodríguez, Francisco; Department of Mechanical Engineering; Tomar, Maharaj S.
As the world advances in age, new technologies emerge to provide the people new products and services to satisfy their needs. But at what cost? These new products and services provide benefits but at the same time generate unintended outcomes or consequences such as resource depletion and waste generation. There are different methodologies that provide the capability of evaluating these consequences or impacts. On the other hand there is a need to determine or evaluate how a product or service meets the overall customer needs. Presently, there is a need for a benefit assessment that can evaluate the benefits of products/services based on how well the customer needs are satisfied. This research is focused on the creation of a benefit assessment methodology to evaluate products/services. It was then applied to a product and a service to see the results and evaluate them if it was a valid assessment tool. This methodology, in combination with existing ones such as Life Cycle Assessment, could be a great tool to evaluate products/services completely in a whole new way.