EcoDesign Strategy Wheel
Keywords Sustainability Environmental profile Product life cycle
What Is the EcoDesign Strategy Wheel? The EcoDesign Strategy Wheel (also called Life cycle Design Strategies - LiDs, see fig. 2.5) visualises the New concept development: New concept development: • Dematerialisation • Dematerialisation • Shared use of the produc • Shared use of the produc • Integrations of functions • Integrations of functions • Functional optimization of product • Functional optimisation of product (components)
Product System Level
the impact on the environment, you can follow an Product Component Level 1. Selection of low-impact Product Component Level materials • Cleaner materials • Renewable 1. Selection of materials low-impact materials content materials • • Lower Cleanerenergy materials • Recycled materials • Renewable materials • Recyclable materials • Lower energy content materials
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• Recycled materials 2. Reduction of materials usage • Recyclable materials
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• Reduction in weight • Reduction in (transport) volume
2. Reduction of materials usage • Reduction in weight • Reduction in (transport) volume
• Classic design • Strong product-user relation
• No waste of energy/consumables
have an impact on the environment. To minimise
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• Recycling of materials 6. of initial lifetime • Optimization Safer incineration
5. Reduction of impact during use • Lower energy consumption 5. Reduction of impact during use • Cleaner energy source • Lower energy consumption • Fewerenergy consumables • Cleaner source needed • Cleaner consumables • Fewer consumables needed • No waste of energy/ consumables • Cleaner consumables
The development of new products will inevitably
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7. Optimization end-of-life system Product SystemofLevel • Reuse of product •7. Optimisation Remanufacturing/ refurbishing of end-of-life system •• Recycling of materials Reuse of product •• Safer incineration Remanufacturing/refurbishing
• Reliability and durability •6. Optimisation Easier maintenance repair of initialand lifetime •• Modular structure Reliabilityproduct and durability •• Classic Easier design maintenance and repair •• Strong product-user relation Modular product structure
strategies that can be followed for EcoDesign.
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4. Optimization of distribution system •4. Optimisation Less/ cleaner/ of reusable packaging distribution system •• Energy-efficient transport mode Less/ cleaner/ reusable packaging •• Energy-efficient Energy-efficient logistics transport mode • Energy-efficient logistics
3. Optimization of production techniques • Alternative production techniques 3. Optimisation of production techniques • Fewer production steps techniques • Alternative production • Lower/ cleaner energysteps consumption • Fewer production • Less waste • production Lower/cleaner energy consumption • Fewer/ cleaner production • Less production waste consumables • Fewer/cleaner production priorities for the consumables
new products priorities for the new product
existing product
existing product
EcoDesign strategy. The EcoDesign Strategy Wheel is a tool to select and communicate the EcoDesign strategies. The EcoDesign Strategy Wheel presents 8 EcoDesign strategies: new concept development, selection of low-impact materials, reduction of materials usage, optimisation of production techniques, optimisation of distribution system, reduction of impact during use, optimisation of initial lifetime, and optimisation of endof-life system. Most of the EcoDesign strategies relate to the product life cycle. The first strategy is different, since it relates to a much more innovative strategy than the others. Some strategies relate to the product component level, some to product structure level and others to the product system level. During the analysis of the environmental product profile, many improvement options will have come up spontaneously. These improvement options can be grouped according to the classification of eight EcoDesign strategies and visualised in the EcoDesign Strategy Wheel as EcoDesign strategies in
fig. 2.5 The EcoDesign Strategy Wheel (Brezet and van Hemel, 1995)
the product design project. To generate even more
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