Sammendrag
Sustainability is the ability to develop and implement technologies/methodologies which are self-sustaining and address the needs of future generations. These generations are threatened by the growing global population combined with the loss of nutritious food resources along the whole food value chain. Food security and safety, along with sustainable food production, are prioritized in the mainstream of European politics. Integrating sustainability into the design of food processing equipment (FPE) is a vital step toward these goals.
This study focuses on FPE design and proposes an approach for integrating sustainability into the design process. It provides product developers with the opportunity to perceive and achieve sustainability integration as a leverage point for reducing environmental, social, and economic impacts associated with food production systems.
System engineering (SE) is a holistic approach that offers product developers a systemic and systematic process to apply to FPE design and manufacture. As a discipline SE establishes a flexible and collaborative project environment that brings together branches of engineering and science in planning and developing solutions to meet the stakeholders’ needs. SE is a well-established set of practices that address the lifecycle of a system/product. It has evolved from the development of complex systems and solving a variety of complex problems over the past 50 years and is the focus of ISO standard 15288. To identify the ways SE can support sustainability integration into a FPE design, the SPADE framework is utilized. SPADE framework represents the core activities of SE where the problem-solving process goes through the identification of Stakeholders, a Problem formulation, an Analysis, Decision making, and continuous Evaluation. This framework makes it possible to align the development of industrial food production with future trends such as Industry 4.0 for food and to account for flexibility in market demands.
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