Sustainable Mass Customization Assessment

This document describes the step required for the development of a sustainable assessment model, both the theoretical aspects and the practical ones are considered. The proposed assessment model is meant not only to monitor ex-post the sustainability of a given solution space but also to support designers to evaluate sustainability issues during the development of a mass customised solution space. For this reason, sustainability impacts are mapped against the various design activities, in order to support the designers during the identification of the choices that impact the most the sustainability level. All the aspects of sustainability (economic, environmental, social) are quantitatively evaluated taking a lifecycle perspective. The aspects to be considered for an effective software implementation of the assessment model are analysed and these results integrated into the development of the prototype of the assessment software application.