In this work we provide an overview of the current trend in process and product design as a multidisciplinary area within process system engineering. This problem shows a strong link between different fields including economics, marketing, molecular chemistry, physico-chemistry as well as process design and all the way up to ingredients and final products supply chain. While the different stages in product design have been studied one by one, recent efforts aim at the integrated product design, showing economic and environmental benefits. However, there is still a long way to go for the integrated product design problem that is of paramount importance in the case of formulated products where tradeoffs between product performance, environmental burden and cost can only be addressed from a global perspective.

在这项工作中，我们概述了过程和产品设计的当前趋势，并将其作为过程系统工程中的一个多学科领域。这个问题显示出不同领域之间的紧密联系，包括经济学，市场营销，分子化学，物理化学以及工艺设计，一直到原料和最终产品供应链。尽管已经对产品设计的不同阶段进行了逐一研究，但最近的努力针对的是集成产品设计，显示了经济和环境效益。但是，对于配方产品而言，集成产品设计问题还有很长的路要走，在配方产品的情况下，只能从全局角度解决产品性能，环境负担和成本之间的折衷问题。