Sustainable Product Design and Development

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Author Biographies -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Definition of Sustainability -- 1.1.1 Performance Evaluation of the Economic Pillar -- 1.1.2 Performance Evaluation of the Environmental Pillar -- 1.1.3 Performance Evaluation of the Societal Pillar -- 1.1.4 Sustainable Product Indicators for the Economic Pillar -- 1.1.5 Sustainable Product Indicators for the Environmental Pillar -- 1.1.6 Sustainable Product Indicators for the Societal Pillar -- 1.2 Definition of Design and the Engineering Design Process -- 1.2.1 The Engineering Design Process -- 1.3 Selection of Materials -- 1.4 Selection of Machining Processes -- 1.5 What is Design Review? -- 1.5.1 Soft-Hard (S-H) Review -- 1.6 Designing a Product for Functionality -- 1.6.1 Case Study: Can Opener -- 1.6.1.1 Guideline Development for Can Opener -- 1.6.2 What Are the Manufacturing Attributes That Affect Functionality? -- 1.6.3 Development of Linkages to Connect Functionality with Manufacturing -- 1.6.3.1 QFD House 1: Transforming Functional Requirements into Technical and Design Requirements -- 1.6.3.2 QFD House 2: Product Deployment-Converting Technical Requirements into Product Features -- 1.6.4 Functionality Evaluation Test: Development of a Survey -- 1.7 Designing a Product for Usability -- 1.8 Golden Rules of Sustainable Product Design -- 1.9 Conclusion -- References -- 2 Environmental Legislations -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Examples of Some Environmental Legislations around the World -- 2.2.1 Environmental Legislation for the State of New York -- 2.2.2 Environmental Legislation for the State of Illinois -- 2.2.3 Environmental Legislation for the State of Virginia -- 2.2.4 Environmental Legislations in Germany -- 2.2.5 Environmental Legislations in France.