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Product Ecodesign and Materials: Current Status and Future Prospects
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Mathieux, Fabrice Brissaud, Daniel Zwolinski, Peggy |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | The aim of this paper is to discuss the current status of ecodesign in the industry and its future implications for materials. There is today more and more focus on the environmental impacts of products during their whole life cycle. In particular, ecodesign aims at integrating environmental aspects during the product’s design process as an y other criterion, in order to reduce the life cycle impacts. Due to legislative pressure, customer requirements or even manufacturer’s environmental policy, ecodesign is currently gaining in popularity in all industrial sectors. Although a lot of product environmental impact assessment and Design for Environment tools already exist, environmental aspects are unfortunately rarely routinely integrated into product development process in the industry. This is mainly due to the fact that current ecodesign tools are little adapted to designers’ practices, requirements and competencies. After the sequential and DfX paradigms, design of products is today maturing into Integrated Design, where multiple points of views and expertise have to be considered at the same time to progressively define the product. For example, when choosing an acceptable material for a part, not only functional (e.g. aesthetic) and mechanical (e.g. strength) characteristics should be complied by this material, but its machinability, its recyclability and other factors will be important. In the near future, ecodesign of products will also have to be adapted to new productive paradigms such as Product / Service / System and Remanufacturing. These paradigms are indeed developing, obviously not only for environmental reasons, and ecodesign should be robust to these developments. At last, but not least, there is a real need for developing innovative tools and methods so that they can be used in the earlier phases of the product’s design, so that real innovation and environmental benefits can be achieved. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://arxiv.org/pdf/0711.1788v1.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00182342/document |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
