Current Status of Environmentally Conscious Design Among Japanese  Manufacturers

Keijiro Masui

doi:10.20965/ijat.2009.p0019

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IJAT Vol.3 No.1 pp. 19-25

doi: 10.20965/ijat.2009.p0019

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Current Status of Environmentally Conscious Design Among Japanese Manufacturers

Keijiro Masui

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
1-2-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8564, Japan

Received:

September 18, 2008

Accepted:

October 20, 2008

Published:

January 5, 2009

Keywords:

environmental conscious design, product assessment, lifecycle assessment, chemical substance database, environmental target

Abstract

The importance of the environmentally conscious design (ECD) continues to increase because the approach enterprises take to environmental protection is shifting from environmental considerations in the factory to the development of environmentally conscious products (ECP). It is important that excellent practices concerning ECD processes be introduced into companies that have been slow to respond and that common problems with ECD processes be identified. To these ends, our survey research team investigated the current status of ECD among Japanese manufacturers through interviews and mail-in surveys. In this paper, we first describe our survey results on the current status of ECD in each industrial sector. Secondly, we propose an ideal ECD scheme for implementation in companies.

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K. Masui, “Current Status of Environmentally Conscious Design Among Japanese Manufacturers,” Int. J. Automation Technol., Vol.3 No.1, pp. 19-25, 2009.

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[1] [1] H. Kaebernick and S. Kara, “Environmentally Sustainable Manufacturing: A Survey on Industry Practices,” Proc. of 13thCIRP Inter. Conf. on Life Cycle Engineering, pp. 19-28, 2006.

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