Axiomatic design theory as a design thinking tool for mastering industrial process variables inventorying

Abstract. Activities within LCSA approaches targeting Sustainable Product, Process or Project Development, and eventually Societal Resilience usually involve multidisciplinary complexity in inventorying process variables in terms of defining materials, processes, energy consumptions, different categories of costs, or social factors. As long as Design Thinking is gaining field as a general philosophy in many kinds of businesses, for dealing with the more complex problems of design management, the particular idea of the presented research is to consider Axiomatic Design theory as a valuable tool for mastering industrial process variables inventorying. The included case study approaches the problem of analytically inventorying the process variables for sustainably developing a project for a wood pellets micro-production activity supplied from willow crops or alternative biomass resources.