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9781860584701

Design and Manufacture for Sustainable Development 2004

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  • ISBN13:

    9781860584701

  • ISBN10:

    1860584705

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-10-29
  • Publisher: WILEY

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Summary

Sustainable development is now becoming a matter that must be addressed at both strategic and operational level, whether driven by legislation, the 'greening of the marketplace', supply chain requirements, or the pressure of events associated with climate change.Design and Manufacture for Sustainable Development 2004 is an international volume including papers by distinguished authors for academia and industry.These international papers encompass the holistic study and interchange of ideas on the theory, practice, tools, and methodology for the entire product life cycle within the framework of sustainable development.

Author Biography

Tracy Bhamra and Bernard Hon are the authors of Design and Manufacture for Sustainable Development 2004, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Keynote Papers
Object lessons - enduring artefacts and sustainable solutionsp. 3
Critical friendships - 'non-Government organizations' (NGOs) as a stimulus for sustainable innovation and changep. 23
Strategies for End of Life
Investigation into the use of engineering polymers as actuators to produce 'automatic disassembly' of electronic productsp. 35
Remanufacturing - a key strategy for sustainable developmentp. 51
The automation of sustainability via re-use, modularization, and fuzzy logicp. 65
Understanding Consumers to Create Sustainable Products
The 'recycled consumer' - evidence and design implicationsp. 77
Supra-functional factors in sustainable productsp. 91
Product design informed by life-cycle information - initial results from ELIMAp. 103
Strategies Towards Factor 10
EcoDesign and future environmental impactsp. 113
Understanding the potential opportunities provided by service-orientated concepts to improve resource productivityp. 123
Extending product life - the forgotten challengep. 135
Sustainable Design Education
Factor 10 - the changing landscape of learningp. 145
Designing and teaching a sustainable design course at Purdue Universityp. 157
The EcoDesign co-operative - a global initiative to enhance EcoDesign education through courseware exchangep. 167
Methods and Tools for Sustainable Design
Beyond the Eco-Functional Matrix - design for sustainability and the Durham methodologyp. 175
MAAP - a method to assess the adaptability of productsp. 185
Exploiting digital enterprise technology in sustainable design and manufacturep. 199
Case Studies of Sustainable Design
Design decision-making and materials - investigations in the context of recycled polymersp. 209
Reduction and reuse of waste - design and new-generation plasticsp. 221
Solar-powered bus shelter case study - design and development toward sustainabilityp. 237
'Closing the loop' - the role of design in the success of six small UK recycled product manufacturersp. 249
Authors' Indexp. 263
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