{"title":"Product environmental impact assessments","authors":"D. Dalke, J. Prusak, G. Woodside","doi":"10.1109/ISEE.1994.337261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISEE.1994.337261","url":null,"abstract":"Process engineers have for years evaluated the potential impact of their operations to the environment. They do this not only because it is the right thing to do, but also because governments around the world have continued to pass regulations requiring it. Thus, companies have become accustomed to environmental protection as a normal part of manufacturing operations. As our knowledge has increased, we have learned that to truly protect the environment, we must carry this protection beyond the manufacturing process and into the intended product's entire life cycle. Companies must include a careful analysis of a product's total impact to the environment from \"cradle to grave\". The authors describe the Environmental Impact Assessment tool, developed at IBM Austin, which is used to describe all new products. It is utilised to describe various details and aspects associated with the new product.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":434669,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and The Environment","volume":"2015 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121608995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Environmentally-conscious disk drives","authors":"W. S. Young, J. J. Andersen","doi":"10.1109/ISEE.1994.337246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISEE.1994.337246","url":null,"abstract":"Technology advancements have resulted in a number of environmentally measurable improvements in IBM disk drives. Large gains in such areas as power consumption, heat generation, and floor space per gigabyte have made them one of the great bargains of the computer world. In addition, eliminating hazardous chemicals in processing, using aqueous cleaning and incorporating modular designs come as a result of environmental and life-cycle considerations. Setting up an environmentally-conscious product (ECP) team on their plantsite has allowed them to bring these concepts to product design, product development and manufacturing groups. An environmental specification for materials has been written detailing what chemicals and materials to avoid in processes and products. This paper illustrates how the IBM plant in San Jose, USA has used environmental concepts in improving disk drive products and manufacturing processes.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":434669,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and The Environment","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129802932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Market considerations in the reuse of electronic products","authors":"Bruce Paton","doi":"10.1109/ISEE.1994.337298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISEE.1994.337298","url":null,"abstract":"To be effective, product reuse programs must fit well with the company's business strategies, and must meet real market needs. This paper examines key challenges and opportunities that electronics manufacturers experience in marketing products for reuse.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":434669,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and The Environment","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129181593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automation of disassembly processes of consumer goods","authors":"A. Ansems","doi":"10.1109/ISEE.1994.337235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISEE.1994.337235","url":null,"abstract":"Currently the disassembly of consumer products is mainly done by hand. Only for a few simple products do mechanized processes already exist. Possible automation is obstructed due to the present relatively small numbers and the product diversity. Nevertheless, automation/mechanization must be considered because of reducing the labour costs when large numbers of products became available. In some pilot solutions robot-based methods were introduced to carry out relatively rigid disassembly sequences, confined to a certain product variant of a low \"disassembly depth\".<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":434669,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and The Environment","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121318220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design considerations for remanufacturability, recyclability and reusability of user interface modules","authors":"W. Seaver","doi":"10.1109/ISEE.1994.337251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISEE.1994.337251","url":null,"abstract":"This report identifies the necessary attributes that are necessary for the successful development of environmentally friendly user interface devices. While specific to the Xerox Corporation's operations, the precepts of the report can and could be applied to every product manufactured in today's world.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":434669,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and The Environment","volume":"279 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116312542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disassembly of electronic products","authors":"K. Feldmann, H. Scheller","doi":"10.1109/ISEE.1994.337291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISEE.1994.337291","url":null,"abstract":"Electronic scrap, especially the printed circuit board, is recognized as an environmental problem in Germany. Disassembly plants are growing up as a part of a recycling system. This paper shows the motivation and tasks of a disassembling machine for printed circuit boards. The tasks are analyzed and suitable solutions are pointed out. They are combined to a general concept, for which attempts at realization are described.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":434669,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and The Environment","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117073608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International environmental management standards (ISO 9000's less tractable siblings)","authors":"J. Cascio","doi":"10.1109/ISEE.1994.337277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISEE.1994.337277","url":null,"abstract":"Before the advent of ISO 9000 Quality Management standards, the International Organization for Standardization's (ISO) nearly exclusive focus was on international technical and safety standards. Then, some ten years ago, the ISO impanelled a new technical committee (TC 176) to develop \"Quality Management\" standards for organizations. With that, it entered the relatively \"soft\" science of organizational management. This resulted in the ISO 9000 series of quality standards which have won adherents throughout the world and have (in some regions) become requirements of trade. Now, ISO has formed Technical Committee 207 to develop yet another set of management standards, this time focusing on the considerably less tractable subject of environmental protection activities within organizations.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":434669,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and The Environment","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124061772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pragmatic use of priority life cycle assessment elements to help drive product stewardship","authors":"T. Korpalski","doi":"10.1109/ISEE.1994.337257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISEE.1994.337257","url":null,"abstract":"Hewlett-Packard, Computer Products Organization (CPO) has launched a product stewardship program with an overall objective to provide products and services that are environmentally sound throughout their life cycle and to conduct operations worldwide in an environmentally responsible manner. A set of metrics or measurement tools was needed to help drive product and process improvements and to provide management an easy method to review and measure progress. The metrics should be easy to use, pragmatic and noncontroversial. The metrics are used to set product specific objectives and provide a method to measure percentage improvement above a baseline. The metrics can be used with product, packaging, consumables, learning products, (manuals, etc.) and manufacturing processes.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":434669,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and The Environment","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123480273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interaction of the life-cycle approach into the decision-making process","authors":"J. Fava, M. Kabjian","doi":"10.1109/ISEE.1994.337256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISEE.1994.337256","url":null,"abstract":"The life-cycle concept has many different connotations. It is used to describe a life-cycle assessment (LCA) methodology which often implies a quantitative \"cradle-to-grave\" assessment of a product's environmental impact loadings. The life-cycle concept is also used in life-cycle costing frameworks which attempt to identify the various costs associated with business activities. These applications often give decision-makers a one-sided perception of the usefulness of the life-cycle approach. Decision makers are often left with the impression that life cycle requires an enormous amount of effort or that it must be focused on solely environmental or cost issues. This paper examines the different ways in which the life-cycle approach can be applied in industry ranging from strategic life-cycle thinking to specialized life-cycle methodologies. It goes on to discuss how companies can define the specific issues to which the life-cycle approach can be applied and how to integrate existing life-cycle methodologies so that they directly address the decisions to be made.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":434669,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and The Environment","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127377089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supplier performance and the environment","authors":"E. Maxie","doi":"10.1109/ISEE.1994.337238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISEE.1994.337238","url":null,"abstract":"Concerns about the environment have evolved from primarily being single country concerns such as polluted air, polluted water and threats of certain species extinction to international or global concerns (i.e. global warming). Solutions to environmental concerns that negatively impact any number of countries simultaneously i.e. acid rain and ozone layer depletion are being developed jointly by countries today. Environmental issues present companies that operate multinationally with many challenges, one of which is to manage a global enterprise in an environmentally responsible manner while simultaneously addressing numerous country specific issues. Suppliers are an integral part of most programs to the environment. Therefore, measures to understand and communicate differences in supplier performance toward improving the environment should be developed. This paper presents a set of selection criteria for developing a supplier performance measure on the environment that accounts for geographical differences. A methodology for integrating an environmental performance measure into existing traditional supplier performance measures is also presented.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":434669,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and The Environment","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116384363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}