- Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing and Designing for the Environment have become considerably important in the recent years due to the results of sustained high living standards and dynamic population growth.
- Physical products must not only proceed from "cradle to grave" but now must proceed "cradle to reincarnation".
- Business practices must be altered and enhanced to address a multitude of items needed to produce products with less overall environmental impact.
- This paper presents both the physical product system and the business process system and identifies key areas where the competencies of industrial engineers can best be used. The key DFE (Design For Environment) needs are identified by IE concentration as follows:
- Operations Research--Decision support models for life cycle impact and improvement analysis. Improvement analysis requires optimizing a set of alternative product and process enhancements.
- Quality and Reliability-- Increasing yield reduces waste.
- Management of Technology-- Product strategy selection including field Component replacement analysis based on technology potential curves.
- Human Factors--Products designed by DFE may require a complete paradigm shift for both producer and consumer to meet same utility of the former product at substantially less environmental impact.
- Human Factors--Products designed by DFE may require a complete paradigm shift for both producer and consumer to meet same utility of the former product at substantially less environmental impact.
- Computer Integrated Manufacturing-- DFE included with Integrated Product and Process Development technologies.
Reference:
T.J.
Caporello and P.M. Wolfe
Department
of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering,
Arizona
State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-5906, U.S.A.
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