Product development from ecodesign point of view in practice
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32972/dms.2020.021Keywords:
new product development (NPD), design for environment, footprint reduction, product development in practice, project successAbstract
During the development of new product designers must care about thousand of things to finally deliver a successful product to market. There is high pressure from manufacturing to using easy and usable technologies, quality team asking design robustness, management wants to see the product in the right time and on perfect cost level both form project product cost viewpoints. Nowadays, a responsible company and product development team must care and put high focus for an environmentally friendly solution and for sustainable product development. These things have to work together as a system. This paper presents a product development project in a household equipment producer company and company efforts to reduce environmental footprint.
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