Quality Life Cycle Assessment in Sustainable Product Development

Bożena Gajdzik is Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Informatics at the Silesian University of Technology (Poland). Her research focuses on production economics and engineering, with particular emphasis on the steel industry and its producers. She has been listed in Stanford University's ranking of the world’s top 2% scientists.Radosław Wolniak is Full Professor at the Department of Economics and Informatics at the Silesian University of Technology (Poland). For over two decades, he has been dealing with the issues of quality management, Industry 4.0, and Smart City. He has been listed in Stanford University's ranking of the world’s top 2% scientists.Dominika Siwiec is Assistant Professor at the Department of Machine Technology and Production Engineering at the Rzeszow University of Technology (Poland). Her research focuses on predicting product quality and life cycle sustainability assessment. She has been listed in Stanford University's ranking of the world’s top 2% scientists.Remigiusz Gawlik is Associate Professor at the Department of Public Management at the Krakow University of Economics (Krakow, Poland) and Extraordinary Associate Professor at North-West University Business School (Potchefstroom, South Africa). He was a member of the Editorial Team of the scientific journal Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review (2013-2021).Andrzej Pacana is Full Professor of the Rzeszow University of Technology and Vice-Dean for education at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Aviation of the Rzeszow University of Technology (Poland). His research focuses on process improvement in production engineering. He has been listed in Stanford University's ranking of the world’s top 2% scientists.

• Chapter 1: Life cycle assessment in sustainable product development Chapter 2: Integration of LCA with Product Quality in Sustainable Development Chapter 3: Impact of sustainable industrial transformation on product development Chapter 4: Practical implementations of QLCA in sustainable product development Chapter 5: Validation of the Quality Life Cycle Assessment applications