List types of environmental impacts over the life cycle

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Textbook - Product Design and Development, Fifth Edition, Author - Karl T. Ulrich by Steven D. Eppinger. ISBN 978-0-07-340477-6.

Chapter 12 - Design for Environment

Exercises -

1. List at least 10 types of environmental impacts over the life cycle of your personal computer or mobile phone. Chart these as in Exhibit 12-6, representing your judgment of the relative impact of each life cycle stage.

2. Disassemble a simple product, such as a ballpoint pen. Suggest two ways to reduce its environmental impacts.

3. For the product considered in Exercise 1, compute its environmental impact score using any LCA analysis tool available to you.

Thought Questions -

1. What are some of the ways in which you have become more aware of your own environmental impact in recent years?

2. For the Setu chair, what types of environmental impacts would be in the use stage of its life cycle?

3. In what ways can DFE help to improve the quality of a product, in terms of its functionality, reliability, durability, and reparability?

4. For each life cycle stage, identify a product or service that has high environmental impacts during the particular life cycle stage. Then, suggest a new or existing product or service that provides the same functionality with lower (or without any) environmental impacts.

5. How would you explicitly include renewable and nonrenewable energy in the life cycle diagram in Exhibit 12-3? Draw such a diagram and explain it.

6. Explain the relationship between DFE and DFM. Consider, for example, those DFE guidelines related to production in Exhibit 12-8.

7. Consider the DFE assessment tool used by Herman Miller (Exhibit 12-12), which computed the weighted sum of scores for material chemistry, use of recycled content, ease of disassembly, and recyclability. What modifications would you propose to create a DFE assessment tool for a different type of product, such as an automobile or a mobile phone?

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