An in-depth roadmap to sustainable product development
Drawing on the experiences of dozens of major corporations, Design for Environment, Second Edition, offers a business rationale for developing sustainable products and processes, as well as a comprehensive toolkit for practicing DFE in the context of product life-cycle management. Learn how environmental innovation creates business value, and helps companies to meet global energy and environmental challenges. Discover how to:
Practice integrated product development and concurrent engineering
Select appropriate metrics to represent product life-cycle performance
Maintain and apply a portfolio of systematic Design for Environment strategies
Use analysis methods to evaluate design performance and trade-offs
Apply systems thinking to reduce the supply chain environmental footprint
This book features in-depth case studies of DFE applications by industry leaders such as:
Alcoa American Electric Power Caterpillar Coca-Cola ConAgra Foods Dow Chemical Company DuPont Eli Lilly Ford Motor Company General Motors Hewlett-Packard Intel JCPenney Johnson & Johnson Kimberly-Clark McDonald's Owens Corning Patagonia 3M Company * Xerox
With all the recent talk about green technology and green jobs, Joseph Fiksel's book could not come at a better time. If your goal is to design and develop environmentally sustainable products that also drive shareholder value, then this book is a must read."
Edition: 2nd Edition
ISBN: 0071605568
Posted on: 1/23/2017
Format: Pdf
Page Count: 432 Pages
Author: Joseph Fiksel,:
