Eco-design implemented through a product-based environmental management system |
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| Institution: | 1. Lucent Technologies, 67 Whippany Road, Whippany, NJ 07981, USA;2. Lucent Technologies, Optimus, Windmill Hill Business Park, Swindon, WI SN5 6PP, UK;3. Lucent Technologies, Thurn & Taxis Strasse 10, Nuernberg 90411, Germany;4. Lucent Technologies, 600–700 Mountain Avenue, PO Box 636, Murray Hill, NJ 07974-0636, USA;5. Lucent Technologies, 6200 E Broad St, Columbus, OH 43213-1569, USA;1. Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;2. Department of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom;3. UTM Palm Oil Research Center, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;4. Anglia Ruskin University, Global Sustainability Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom;1. Institute of Machine Tools and Manufacturing (IWF), ETH Zürich, Switzerland;2. Züst Engineering AG, Eichbühlstrasse 6, Seegräben, Switzerland;1. Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS, Brazil;2. Montpellier Business School, France;3. Aalto University School of Business, Finland;4. Universidade Federal do Maranhao, Brazil;1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom;2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, 28000, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark;3. Centre de Recherches et d''Etudes Interdisciplinaires sur le Développement Durable (CREIDD), Université de Technologie de Troyes, 12 rue Marie Curie – CS 42060, 10004, Troyes Cedex, France |
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| Abstract: | Lucent Technologies (Lucent) has undergone considerable change in business strategy with the outsourcing of manufacturing activities. In order to control the significant environmental aspects of hardware products, Lucent's wireless business unit, Mobility Solutions, determined it would concentrate on the design of products: focusing on eco-design enables product sustainability to be improved, with each product generation providing a ‘start of pipe’ (front end) solution with attendant efficiencies.Mobility Solutions pioneered a product-based environmental management system (PBEMS) to formally address the impacts of wireless hardware products on the environment throughout the entire product lifecycle, regardless of where products are developed. This management system looks beyond the environmental impacts of manufacturing to include conceptual design, development, use by the customer, and final product disposal.The success of this approach can be attributed to the integration of eco-design with traditional hardware product realization processes. Through the PBEMS, business and environmental processes are simultaneously utilized to manage significant product aspects and to incorporate sustainability principles during product design. Many innovative eco-design tools are applied during the product realization process to identify areas for improvement of future products, and to verify that each generation of existing products is more sustainable than its predecessor. These eco-design tools include eco-roadmapping, design for environment guidelines and checklists, and lifecycle assessments.The Mobility Solutions PBEMS conforms to the requirements of the ISO 14001 international standard and has achieved third-party certification. By implementing environmentally responsible characteristics through eco-design programs, employees, customers, and the world community benefit from a consistent approach to the environmental management of wireless hardware products. Mobility Solutions continues to reap the value of sustainable product design that is both good for the environment and makes sound business sense. |
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