Title :
Customer benefits in the context of life cycle design
Author :
Luttropp, Conrad ; Lagerstedt, Jessica
Author_Institution :
KTH Machine Design, Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract :
To reach eco-effective products, designers and managers must start an environmental dialogue. Products must be given a total environmental profile that the customers can rely on. Too many examples show that green products can be “green” just on the surface. Eco-performance must be optimised together with a preserved customer benefit of the product. One common tool to reach green products is life cycle assessments (LCA). However, the functional unit (benefit to the customer) is too vague in early product development to be of guidance and it is easy to manipulate the function of the product and in this way achieve a greener product
Keywords :
design for environment; product development; co-effective products; customer benefits; design characteristics; eco-performance; environmental dialogue; green products; life cycle assessments; life cycle design; preserved customer benefit; product development; total environmental profile; Environmental economics; Environmental management; Financial management; Green products; Legislation; Process design; Product design; Product development; Recycling; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 1999. Proceedings. EcoDesign '99: First International Symposium On
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0007-2
DOI :
10.1109/ECODIM.1999.747660