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Environment - Design
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 Impacts of products on the environment are widely depending on their design. Energy and material consumption during product manufacturing, transportation and use, and end-of-life recovery are dependant on utilised substances, on implemented processes, and on assembling options. This means that the whole life cycle of the product has to be considered as early as the design to monitor its environmental impacts. This Life Cycle Thinking approach must enable an Environmental Conscious Design. It must fit in with a global policy of continuous improvement of the environmental performances of the products.
This is a very complex issue, as no simple and widely accepted method to assess a product environmental impacts exists.
Our company has joined other large firms of the electrical industry in creating a methodology to help Development centers design products with lower impacts. This ecodesign methodology, called EIME, is based on three principles, currently considered for standardization within ISO :
- It takes into account the whole life cycle of the product,
- Environmental impacts are assessed on a multicriteria basis,
- It is aimed at a continuous decrease of relevant impacts.
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