`Green´ hardware development process

This paper describes one possibility of a methodical procedure concerning the development of more ecological products, i.e. the product has minimum negative influence on the environment during the product phases development, production, operation and end-of-life. This procedure consists of independent steps: ecological product strategy, product specification and an accompanying measurement methodology. In order to control success the latter has been shown to be especially effective. The individual steps of the procedure and the first results of this approach are shown