Translating Environmental Legislation into the Engineering Design Domain

Makri, Chrysanthi; Roy, Rajkumar; Sáckett, Peter

doi:10.4271/2004-01-0248

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“…The deployment of product requirements from the environmental product-related legislation is crucial [15] to ensure that the legal issues will be properly considered during product development [19]. Currently, literature exists on the deployment and management of product requirements [20,21] based on the products' environmental performance [22] and customers' and stakeholders' needs [23][24][25], but limited focus has been addressed to deploying requirements from product-related legislation.…”

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“…Several research attempts have been made to understand how specific legislation can influence businesses activities in a set of sectors, such as automotive [29,30], textiles [31], cosmetics [32], naval [33], electronics [34,35], metalurgy [36], chemicals [37], pulp and paper [38], minerals [39], automotive [19], agri-food [40], industrial waste management [41], etc., has been performed in recent years. Nevertheless, there is a lack of an overall approach to guide companies across sectors to ensure compliance in a formalized and systematic way.…”

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The Deployment of Product-Related Environmental Legislation into Product Requirements

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Environmental legislation is increasingly changing its focus from manufacturing-oriented to product-oriented instruments. Compliance with product-related environmental legislation is achieved by the incorporation of environmental requirements into the early phases of the product development process (PDP). Nevertheless, the deployment of product-related environmental legislation into product requirements is still a challenge. This study followed an inductive approach to propose a guideline to support the identification, analysis and deployment of product requirements based on product-related environmental legislation. The guideline is composed of nine steps, clustered into three groups according to their main objective: (A) identification of environmental product-related legislation; (B) identification of legislative topics to be considered for the deployment of requirements; and (C) creation and validation of product requirements. The product requirements deployed are to be considered during the PDP. The guideline was evaluated in an expert consultation in a large manufacturing company, suggesting that it can be used to support the systematization and deployment of product-related environmental requirements.

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