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Design for EnvironmentStrategies to Minimise Environmental Impacts

Life Cycle DesignChapter 4

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5 Minute Quiz

Name and describe the stages of the Product Life Cycle. For each stage give an example of one process that fits into that stage.

--From 2009 Term Test

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Product Life Cycle (4.3)

DfE is a designer’s tool box to minimize the netenvironmental impacts of a product during all stages of the product cycle.

1. Pre-manufacturing / Pre-production

2. Manufacturing / Production

3. Packaging & Transport / Distribution

4. Use

5. Refurbishment-Recycling-Disposal / Disposal

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Product Life Cycle => Pre-production (4.3.2)

Creation of energy or semi-finished materials

required to manufacture the final product.

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Product Life Cycle => Pre-production (4.3.2)

Sub-stages

• Acquisition of resources

• Transportation to production stage

• Transformation into raw materials or energy

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Product Life Cycle => Production (4.3.3)

Creation of the final product.

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Product Life Cycle => Production (4.3.3)

Sub-stages• Processing of materials

• Assembly

• Completion

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Product Life Cycle => Distribution (4.3.4)

Moving the final product from production to the

consumer

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Product Life Cycle => Distribution (4.3.4)

Sub-stages

• Packaging

• Transportation

• Storing

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Product Life Cycle => Use (4.3.5)

Period of time during which the consumer is in

possession of the product.

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Product Life Cycle => Use (4.3.5)

Sub-stages

• Utilisation

• Consumption

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Product Life Cycle => Disposal (4.3.6)

Removing the final product from the consumer’s

possession.

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Product Life Cycle => Disposal (4.3.6)

Sub-stages

• Reuse / Remanufacture:

• Recycle / Composted:

• Incineration / waste conversion:

• Landfill:

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Plasco Test Facility (Ottawa)

IN: Municipal Solid Waste OUT: Syngas(hydrogen + carbon monoxide)

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Life Cycle Design (4.6)

…Blind Men and the Elephant

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Life Cycle Design (4.6)

Frank Gehry’s “Easy Edges” cardboard

furniture – 1969 -1973

Functional Unit =

Therefore

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Why are all Stages Important for Your Company?

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Takeaway

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And so these men of IndostanDisputed loud and long,Each in his own opinionExceeding stiff and strong,Though each was partly in the right,And all were in the wrong!

-John Godfrey Saxe

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Reference List

1. Jonathan Himmelfarb, Peter Stenvinkel, T Alp Ikizler and Raymond M Hakim. Artist: G. Renee Guzlas. Available: http://www.nature.com/ki/journal/v62/n5/fig_tab/4493262f1.html

2. “Blind men and an elephant”. From Charles Maurice Stebbins & Mary H. Coolidge, Golden Treasury Readers: Primer, American Book Co. (New York), p. 89. Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blind_men_and_elephant3.jpg