The evolution of design for environment in electronics firms

Fava, James A.; Noble, David; Russell, Andrea J.

doi:10.1109/isee.2001.924528

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“…Many companies have had different influences in introducing DFE in their overall business strategy. For example, Fava et al (2001) observed that internal and external drives, and internal capacity and resources have influenced the evolution of DFE in the electronics industry. Examples of internal drives are company environmental strategies and cost savings, while examples of external drives are customer requirements and regulations.…”

Section: Design For the Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…IBM currently has ten major material reutilization and recovery centres worldwide, and recycled more than 90% of manufactured scrap in 1997 (Frye 1997, Dunnett et al 1999. All things considered, IBM has taken a comprehensive approach to DFE by providing its product developers with a set of tools that are simple to use and comprehensive, and by constructing an information management system (Fava et al 2001). In essence, by centralizing the resource for their Product Environmental Profiles, the company has strategically exploited its DFE programme in the marketplace to achieve competitive advantage (Fava et al 2001).…”

Section: Electronics and Electromechanical Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Life-cycle engineering: Issues, tools and research

Wanyama¹,

Ertaş²,

Zhang³

et al. 2003

International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing

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Life-cycle engineering (LCE) is a decision-making methodology that considers performance, environmental and cost requirements for the duration of a product. This methodology is becoming a norm for global companies that want to remain competitive. To facilitate and enhance the application of LCE methodology to industrial products, a number of computer tools or utilities that require minimal user input, and hence run automatically in the background of the design process, have been developed. These utilities are intended to provide a feedback on an evolving design without impeding or hampering the design process. There exists a need to continue research on the development of tools that simulate flows in a life-cycle and optimize them. These tools should be based on the client -server model base on the Internet to facilitate the e-Transition.

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Section: Design For the Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%