Title:
Proces wdrażania projektowania proekolo-gicznego w przemyśle"
Authors:
Kazimierz Friedel, Wroclaw University of Technology
Abstract:
Process of eco-design implementation in industry
Design for Environment (DfE or Eco-Design) is defined as the systematic consideration of design performance with respect to environmental, health, and safety objectives over the full product and process life cycle. DfE improve the management of used electronics by eliminating the hazardous substances, minimizing the diversity of materials and number of parts, using recycled content, improving the ability for products to be reused, refurbished or repaired, facilitating disassembly, facilitating the identification of materials and promoting the recyclability of materials. However, there are serious obstacles in implementation of DfE like the complexity of environmental phenomena, lack of expertise among product development engineers, evolutionary designing, based on previous designs, design decisions depend on core technology used, long-term supplier contracts dictate materials choices, company policy for cost reduction determine components used, the environmental criteria for given product may be to extensive to be evaluated by everyone affected, and at last but not least, the fast changing and quite informal organizational structure of many electronics manufacturers. Nevertheless, the DfE attracts steadily increasing attention. DfE covers a wide range of product development activities including such the tasks as choosing materials, examining product usage phase to reduce environmental impact, designing for energy efficiency, minimizing industrial residues during manufacturing, designing for recycling, and others. There are numerous environmental benefits of electronics reuse and recycling. The proper management of used electronics equipment means recovering materials and components for remanufacture or use in new products, refurbishing and reselling or donating used electronics for its original intended purpose and recycling. From a business point of view, it is possible to ignore the true environmental value, but if designed for environment product offers also business advantages it will be worth to implement DfE. In order to settle which environment friendly design of product or process should be used the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) must be applied. All aspects, from cradle to grave, of a product and material used to make it must be considered. For the implementation of DfE to be successful, it must be accomplished without compromising the performance, time to market, and cost. Since a specialized knowledge must be acquired and used for the DfE, then it is the domain of specialists or experts who must participate in every action along the DfE implementation. The decisions of all participants in DfE implementation must be aligned to further the product environmental goals. Because DfE information comes from many sources, and because of large number of participants, an information management must be accommodate in DfE what means that information must be expressed in terms, which can be applied directly in work of all participants.
Kazimierz Friedel
Wroclaw University of Technology
Proces wdrażania projektowania proekolo-gicznego w przemyśle"
Authors:
Kazimierz Friedel, Wroclaw University of Technology
Abstract:
Process of eco-design implementation in industry
Design for Environment (DfE or Eco-Design) is defined as the systematic consideration of design performance with respect to environmental, health, and safety objectives over the full product and process life cycle. DfE improve the management of used electronics by eliminating the hazardous substances, minimizing the diversity of materials and number of parts, using recycled content, improving the ability for products to be reused, refurbished or repaired, facilitating disassembly, facilitating the identification of materials and promoting the recyclability of materials. However, there are serious obstacles in implementation of DfE like the complexity of environmental phenomena, lack of expertise among product development engineers, evolutionary designing, based on previous designs, design decisions depend on core technology used, long-term supplier contracts dictate materials choices, company policy for cost reduction determine components used, the environmental criteria for given product may be to extensive to be evaluated by everyone affected, and at last but not least, the fast changing and quite informal organizational structure of many electronics manufacturers. Nevertheless, the DfE attracts steadily increasing attention. DfE covers a wide range of product development activities including such the tasks as choosing materials, examining product usage phase to reduce environmental impact, designing for energy efficiency, minimizing industrial residues during manufacturing, designing for recycling, and others. There are numerous environmental benefits of electronics reuse and recycling. The proper management of used electronics equipment means recovering materials and components for remanufacture or use in new products, refurbishing and reselling or donating used electronics for its original intended purpose and recycling. From a business point of view, it is possible to ignore the true environmental value, but if designed for environment product offers also business advantages it will be worth to implement DfE. In order to settle which environment friendly design of product or process should be used the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) must be applied. All aspects, from cradle to grave, of a product and material used to make it must be considered. For the implementation of DfE to be successful, it must be accomplished without compromising the performance, time to market, and cost. Since a specialized knowledge must be acquired and used for the DfE, then it is the domain of specialists or experts who must participate in every action along the DfE implementation. The decisions of all participants in DfE implementation must be aligned to further the product environmental goals. Because DfE information comes from many sources, and because of large number of participants, an information management must be accommodate in DfE what means that information must be expressed in terms, which can be applied directly in work of all participants.
Kazimierz Friedel
Wroclaw University of Technology
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