A semi-quantitative methodology of environmentally conscious design for electromechanical products

Author

Qian, Xueqing ; Yu, Yue ; Zhang, Hong-Chao

Author_Institution

Texas Tech. Univ., Lubbock, TX, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

156

Lastpage

160

Abstract

Nowadays, pollution caused by electromechanical products becomes more and more serious. In order to greatly reduce the pollution generated by a product at various stages of its life cycle, the designers have to consider the environmental impact of the product as early as its design stage. Because modularity design of a product will reduce its environmental impact generated at its various stages, this paper presents the modularity design schema at first. The authors introduce the fuzzy relationship to express the interaction among components in a product. Based on the popular modularity concept, this paper sets up a modularity environmentally conscious model. It provides a mathematical foundation for the future environmentally conscious design. This paper also introduces the Design for “X” and Eco-indicator to assess the alternatives for the design alternatives of a product

Keywords

design for environment; ecology; pollution control; product development; Design for X; Eco-indicator; electromechanical products; environmental impact; environmentally conscious design; life cycle; modularity design; modularity design schema; modularity environmentally conscious model; semi-quantitative methodology; Assembly; Companies; Costs; Design methodology; Government; Pollution; Product design; Production; Recycling; Solids;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics and the Environment, 2001. Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Denver, CO

ISSN

1095-2020

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6655-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISEE.2001.924519

Filename

924519