Product Design for the Environment presents key concepts, basic design frameworks and techniques, and practical applications.

Features:

• Supplies an understanding of environmentally-conscious production issues and how to tackle them in design practice
• Presents general principles and relevant topics for the development of eco-compatible products
• Integrates basic design tools, important new themes, and related innovative design approaches
• Provides a framework of main concepts that highlight the best strategies for achieving environmental quality of product
• Includes complete coverage of methods and structured tools for life cycle design, and illustrates their practical application

Contents

From Sustainable Development to Design for Environment

• Sustainable Development
• Industrial Ecology
• Design in the Context of the Environmental Question
• Design for Environment
• Concepts, Tools and Approaches to the Environmental Question: Overview
• Standards and Regulations Oriented Towards Environmental Quality of Products

Life Cycle Approach and the Product-System Concept and Modeling

• Life Cycle Concept and Theory
• Life Cycle and the Product-System Concept
• Product-System and Environmental Impact
• Life Cycle Modeling
• Product Life Cycle: Reference Model

Life Cycle Design and Management

• Life Cycle Approach in Product Design
• Life Cycle Design Oriented toward Environmental Performance of Products
• Life Cycle Management

Life Cycle Assessment

• Environmental Analysis and Evaluation of the Life Cycle
• Premises, Properties and Framework of Life Cycle Assessment
• Fields of Application and Limitations of Life Cycle Assessment
• Overview of Practical Approaches and Tools for Life Cycle Assessment

Life Cycle Cost Analysis

• Cost Analysis and the Life Cycle Approach
• Product Life Cycle Cost Analysis
• Evolution of Models for Product Life Cycle Cost Analysis
• Reference Standards and Codes of Practice

Integrated Economic-Environmental Analysis of the Life Cycle

• Life Cycle Cost Analysis and Environmental Aspects
• Environmental Costs and Environmental Accounting
• Integration Between LCCA and LCA
• Other Approaches to Economic-Environmental Analysis: Eco-Cost Models

Product Design and Development Process

• Product Design and Development
• Product Design
• Methodological Evolution in Product Design

Integration of Environmental Aspects in Product Design

• Orientation toward Environmental Aspects in the Design Process
• Environmental Strategies for the Life Cycle Approach
• Tools and Techniques for Environmental Requirements of the Life Cycle
• Integration in Product Development: Proposed Framework
• Toward an International Standard: The ISO/TR 14062 Technical Report

Life Cycle Environmental Strategies and Considerations for Product Design

• Strategies for Improving Resources Exploitation and Determinant Factors
• Strategies for Extension of Useful Life and Design Considerations
• Strategies for Recovery at End-of-Life and Design Considerations
• Product Modularity as a Key Concept for the Application of Environmental Strategies

Engineering Methods for Product Duration Design and Evaluation

• Durability of Products and Components
• Fatigue of Materials
• Damage
• Thermography and the Risitano Method

Product Constructional System Definition Based On Optimal Cycle Strategies

• Aims and Approach
• Method and Tools for Analysis and Design
• Optimal Life Cycle Strategy Evaluation Tool
• Case Study: System Analysis and Redesign of a Household Refrigerator

Environmental Characterization of Materials and Optimal Choice

• Materials Selection and Environmental Properties
• Environmental Characterization of Materials and Processes
• Summary of Selection Method
• Analysis of Production Feasibility
• Analysis of Performance
• Life Cycle Indicators
• Analysis of Results and Optimal Choice
• Case Study: Selection of Material for an Automobile Brake Disk

Design for Disassembly and Distribution of Disassembly Depth

• Design for Disassembly and Disassembly Level
• Distribution of Disassembly Depth
• Objectives and Approach to the Problem
• Method Statement
• Evaluation of Disassembly Depth
• Efficiency of Ease of Disassembly Distribution
• Case Study: Electromechanical System

Optimal Disassembly Planning

• Disassembly Planning
• Objectives and Approach to the Problem
• Common Structure of the Proposed Tools
• Development of the First Tool: Goals of Servicing
• Development of the Second Tool: Goals of Recovery
• Simulations and Analysis of Results

Product Recovery Cycles Planning and Cost-Benefit Analysis of Recovery

• Approach to the Recovery Problem
• Method for Recovery Cycles Planning
• Calculation Models for Recovery Cycles Planning
• Case Study: Analysis and Optimization of Heat Exchanger Constructional Systems
• Cost-Benefit Analysis of Recovery Cycles

Methodlogical Framework and Analysis Models for Simulation of Product Life Cycle

• Simulation and the Life Cycle Approach
• Approach to the Problem and Methodological Framework
• Product Model and Analysis Tools
• Definition of Objective Functions
• Simulation and Analysis of Results

Index

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