Designing revolution: policy for a clean and healthy electronics industry

Author

Chakrabarti, Prabal

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

2-4 May 1994

Firstpage

21

Lastpage

25

Abstract

Design for environment (DFE) has been recognized as a design process that encourages cleaner manufacturing practices in the US electronics industry, along with strengthening industry competitiveness. A variety of opinions and policy alternatives exist as to the most effective means to implement DFE. This paper establishes DFE as a critical issue and evaluates US government policy alternatives for its research and implementation. The paper then makes recommendations based upon these policy evaluations. The research for the paper was conducted during the 1993 Washington Internships for Students of Engineering (WISE) program and was sponsored by IEEE-US Activities

Keywords

electronics industry; government policies; research and development management; US government policy; cleaner manufacturing practices; design for environment; electronics industry; industry competitiveness; policy evaluations; research; Costs; Electronics industry; Government; Hazardous materials; Manufacturing industries; Manufacturing processes; Minimization methods; Process design; Product design; Protection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics and the Environment, 1994. ISEE 1994., Proceedings., 1994 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1769-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISEE.1994.337275

Filename

337275