IMPROVING THE MANAGEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS IN CLIENTS/SUPPLIERS CO-DESIGN PROCESS
Year: 2015
Editor: Christian Weber, Stephan Husung, Gaetano Cascini, Marco Cantamessa, Dorian Marjanovic, Monica Bordegoni
Author: Michelin, Fabien; Reyes, Tatiana; Vallet, Flore; Eynard, Benoît; Duong, Viet-Long
Series: ICED
Institution: 1: Sorbonne Universités, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France; 2: Université de Technologie de Troyes, France; 3: CETIM, France
Section: Design for Life
Page(s): 031-042
ISBN: 978-1-904670-64-3
ISSN: 2220-4334
Abstract
The integration of the environmental criteria in clients/suppliers co-design process becoMES an important issue owing to the growing influence of suppliers design choices on the clients products. This issue is currently poorly integrated in such a design context because of the limited ability for low mature suppliers to provide the basic environmental information to the clients; and of the difficulty for clients to properly size requirements in accordance with to the suppliers expertise. The paper describes a proposed method called "Environmental specifications diagnosis method" which is being developed in order to improve the requirements management. This method aims firstly at increasing the companies awareness toward environmental issues by positioning companies regarding the current sectorial practices. Secondly, the method provides a support for the clarification of better tuned requirements regarding the suppliers expertise. The paper provides also results from a case study performed with an industrial of the French mechanical industry in order to test the method validity.
Keywords: Ecodesign, Collaborative Design, Environmental Requirements