Design for Environment, Second Edition: A Guide to Sustainable Product Development

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

The book is enhanced by in-depth case studies of DFE applications by industry leaders.