3D environment-conscious design system

The demand for designing environment-conscious products, "green-products" in other words, is ever increasing. Fujitsu thus has developed and started application of a three-dimensional virtual product simulator, called "FJVPS/Eco Design," that works in closer cooperation with three-dimensional CAD, to support an environment-conscious design at the design stage. Four functions of Eco Design among extended functions of FJVPS/Eco Design especially contribute to shortening man-hour of environmental conscious design process. The four functions are: 1) LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) evaluation support at the design stage, 2) verification of product disassembling, 3) calculation of a recyclable rate in accordance with environmental law in Japan, and 4) calculation of the total amount of toxic or controlled substance content. These four functions of "FJVPS/Eco Design" are explained in this paper