Design for Environment, Second Edition: A Guide to Sustainable Product Development: Eco-Efficient 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
This book features in-depth case studies of DFE applications by industry leaders such as:

Alcoa * American Electric Power * Caterpillar * Coca-Cola * ConAgra Foods * Dow Chemical Company * DuPont * Eli Lilly * Ford Motor Company * General Motors * Hewlett-Packard * Intel * JCPenney * Johnson & Johnson * Kimberly-Clark * McDonald's * Owens Corning * Patagonia * 3M Company * Xerox

With all the recent talk about green technology and green jobs, Joseph Fiksel's book could not come at a better time. If your goal is to design and develop environmentally sustainable products that also drive shareholder value, then this book is a must read."