1. Application of ISO/TR 14062 Integration of Environmental
Aspects into Product Design and development
Kun-Mo Lee
Ajou University
August 30, 2002

2. Product Strategy/Planning
Ecodesign Method-Our approach
Product Strategy/Planning
Design/Test
Modification
Product
Planning
Env Aspects
Analysis
Idea
generation
Idea
verification
Testing
Prototype
Market
launch
Env Design
Strategy
Detailed
design
Aspects
Analysis
Idea
generation
Conceptual
design
review
Economical/
Quality
strategies
Out of scope

3. Product Planning What it does? Define project objective and boundary
Select Product
(Identification of the product and market characteristics)
Determine project team

4. Environmental aspects analysis
What it does?
Identification of the weak environmental aspects
Analytical tools
LCA, Environmental Benchmarking, Checklists, etc

5. Environmental design strategy
What it does?
Define general environmental design strategies
Selection of the specific design strategies for the product under consideration

6. Idea generation What it does? Analytical tools
Generation of the environmental improvement ideas based on environmental aspects analysis results
Analytical tools
Brainstorming, Brainwriting 635, Heuristic principle, Bionics, Morphological Box, Progressive abstraction, etc

7. Idea Testing What it does? Analytical tools
Integration of environmental improvement ideas with the other aspects(cost, quality) ideas
Evaluation of the feasibility of the improvement ideas
Analytical tools
Ecodesign matrix, Ecodesign portfolio,
Quality Profile. Dominance matrix,
House of environmental quality,etc

8. & parameters(metrics)
Environmental Benchmarking Proposed Method
Product
planning
Interpretation
Key issues
identification
Key env areas
& parameters(metrics)
selection
Idea
generation
Establish
Measurement
methods
Benchmarking
Comparison/
analysis
Env design
strategy

9. Environmental design strategy
Systematic method is needed in ranking general
Environmental design strategies
Use of Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP)

10. Proposed method
Env aspects
Analysis
results
Determination of general environmental design strategies
Selection of specific design strategy
Determination of the ranking
Determination of Decision
Criteria
Idea
generation

11. AHP structure Decision Criteria Design Approach Consumer recognition
Efficient material use
Legislation/regulation
Material life extension
Competitor’s trends
product life extension
Optimal
ecodesign
Strategy
Technology trends
Cleaner manufacturing
Efficient energy consum-
ption in use
Availability of skill
Efficient transport system
New market Driving
Decision Criteria
Design Approach

12. 1. Efficient material use 2. Product life extension
Ranking of the general environmental design strategies
1. Efficient material use
2. Product life extension
3. Cleaner manufacturing

13. Feasibility test of the ideas
Definition :
Elimination of the rough design ideas that do not
meet legal, technical, economical, and
environmental requirements, which leads to the
generation of the qualified design ideas

14. Proposed method Pass/Fail Test Weighting & Selection Simplification
Idea
Generation
Rough design idea from
Environmental aspects
Quality aspects
Cost aspects
Simplification
Pass/Fail
Test
Weighting
& Selection
Simplified rough
design idea
Simplified feasible
design idea
Qualified
design idea
Conceptual
design

15. Procedure (1) Simplified rough design ideas NO Meet legal requirements
Pass/Fail Test
Simplified rough design ideas
Meet legal requirements
Technically feasible NO
YES
Discard

16. ( ) Procedure (2) YES NO Meet cost constraints Discard
Pass/Fail Test
Simplified feasible design ideas
Meet cost constraints
Discard
YES NO
Development time
( )
optional

17. Result Components Simplified feasible design ideas Pass/Fail Test
A (housing)
a5 : Reduce the number of screws of the housing.
a8: Reduce the number of key pad accessories.
a9: Reduce the weight of the key pad
B (PBA)
b4: Use Pb free soldering
C (LCD)
c1: Reduce the number of LCD window
c5: Do not use glue to the LCD assembly
D (…..)
…..

18. Result Components Qualified design ideas Ranking & Selection
A (housing)
a8: Reduce the number of the key pad accessories
B (PBA)
b4: Use Pb free soldering
C (LCD)
c1: Reduce the number of the LCD window
D (…..)
…..

19. Case study:preliminary results
Housing (A): Reduce the number of the key pad accessories
PBA (B): Use Pb free soldering
LCD (C): Reduce the number of windows
Battery (D): Show material identification code on the pack
Charger (E): Do not use vinyl packaging
Packaging (F): Combine several user manuals into one