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Development of a sustainable toothbrush with the aid of additive manufacturing technologies
Published in Fernando Moreira da Silva, Helena Bártolo, Paulo Bártolo, Rita Almendra, Filipa Roseta, Henrique Amorim Almeida, Ana Cristina Lemos, Challenges for Technology Innovation: An Agenda for the Future, 2017
Joana Matos, Henrique Almeida, Rita M.T. Ascenso, Carlos Novo, Mário Freire
The increasing growth of human population together with the material consumption of most industrialised nations taking place at an unsustainable rate have been causing the degradation of the planet (Almeida & Correia, 2016). The implementation of sustainable methodologies can contribute to the implementation of more ecological practices. Products’ life cycle also regards the environmental impacts; this is more often taken into account, called Ecodesign. Procurement, manufacture, usage, and disposal must be considered during the product’s life cycle assessment. Sustainable design, also designated, ecodesign is a growing concern of product designers towards understanding our ecological footprint on the environment. Therefore, it is vital to search for new products that are environmentally friendly and lead to a reduction in the consumption of both consumables and energy while maintaining its desired performance (Almeida & Oliveira, 2016).
Textile and fashion SMEs: The adoption of sustainable strategic models
Published in Gianni Montagna, Cristina Carvalho, Textiles, Identity and Innovation: In Touch, 2020
Ecodesign is a strategic design management process for product and service development in order to minimize the impact on the environment in the whole product life cycle at the same time ensuring functionality, quality, costs and aesthetic design. The aim of the ecodesign is to reduce consumption of the resources, to use eco-friendly materials, to optimize product manufacturing, distribution and usage as well as ensure the management at the end of the life cycle – recovery, recycling or disposal (Trott, 2008).
Sustainable fashion design: Social responsibility and cross-pollination!
Published in Gianni Montagna, Cristina Carvalho, Textiles, Identity and Innovation: Design the Future, 2018
Ecodesign is a strategic design management process that is concerned with minimizing the impact of the life cycle of products and services (e.g. energy, materials, distribution, packaging and end-of-life treatment). This involves assessing, prioritizing and then designing out problems, or designing new solutions. These solutions can range from specifying renewable materials, reducing the energy during usage to innovating the business model.
User experience evaluation model for sustainable manufacturing
Published in International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 2018
Margherita Peruzzini, Marcello Pellicciari
In terms of the analysis of environmental aspects, eco-design theories have been specifically defined to anticipate environmental issues in the early design stages, and eco-design tools have been developed to support designers with environmental impact assessments, such as life cycle assessment (LCA) tools (ISO/TR 14062 2002). In this context, a comprehensive review of eco-design tools has been provided by Navarro et al. (2005). Furthermore, eco-design was the first aspect to be related to sustainable design and manufacturing (Bhamra and Lofthouse 2007). Within this context, eco-design is seen as a fundamental activity for reducing the environmental impacts of current products and understanding how to move towards more ‘green’ and innovative solutions, considering all of the impacts according to the cradle-to-grave model and involving the entire product development team (White et al. 2008). However, a literature review regarding this topic revealed a disappointing lack of successful examples of effective tools for early eco-design, mainly due to the misalignment between tools and the working practices of designers (Knight and Jenkins 2009) and a lack of a wider business perspectives (White et al. 2008).
Bio-inspired design as a solution to generate creative and circular product concepts
Published in International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation, 2023
Laura Ruiz-Pastor, Vicente Chulvi, Marta Royo, João N. Sampaio
Since the 1990s, companies have sought to reduce the environmental impacts caused by products throughout their life cycle by integrating environmental considerations into product design (De Pauw et al., 2014), (Stevels, 2009), which has led to ecodesign or design for environment (DfE). Ecodesign observes the key sustainable requirements in order to incorporate environmental factors into product design and development in the most efficient and appropriate manner (Tukker et al., 2001). For Tischner et al. (2000), ecodesign implies the development of products with environmental awareness, within the concept of sustainable design.
Challenges for modelling and integrating environmental performances in concept design: the case of an automotive component lightweighting
Published in International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, 2018
M. Delogu, S. Maltese, F. Del Pero, L. Zanchi, M. Pierini, A. Bonoli
Literature provides several methods for identifying the best alternative within a panel of different lightweight design solutions. Considering the Design-for-Environment, the main capabilities offered by an eco-design tool are the critical comparison of alternative product concepts and the identification of improvement options such as alternative materials/processes (Andriankaja et al. 2015). Several methods and tools are currently applied by designers such as full Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), LCA-based tools, Matrix-based tools, Guidelines, Checklists, Eco-design guides, Parametric tools and Solution Decision-making tools (Andriankaja et al. 2015; Arena, Azzone, and Conte 2013; Mayyas et al. 2012a). But even so, the need for effective tools able to compare and select appropriate materials during an early design phase is still a research field (Arena, Azzone, and Conte 2013; Poulikidou et al. 2015). Some authors study the combination of materials selection with structural optimisation, weight minimisation and environmental assessment, with the aim of enhancing a systematic evaluation of material alternatives (Ermolaeva, Castro, and Kandachar 2004; Poulikidou et al. 2015). In other cases, the focus is the assessment and inclusion of specific indicators (e.g. recyclability) or a set of key sustainability indicators along vehicle life cycle (Arena, Azzone, and Conte 2013; Sakundarini et al. 2013). In sustainable product design, such tools should be able to elaborate and integrate different information (technical, environmental and economic) and provide a score system able to support material selection according to a multi-criteria approach (Dattilo et al. 2017; Sakundarini et al. 2013). In response to a more comprehensive assessment, the wide variety of parameters is responsible for a higher complexity of the analysis and the necessity of a multi-disciplinary working group (e.g. designer, material specialist, environmental analyst) (Poulikidou et al. 2015; Sakundarini et al. 2013).