"Ecodesign Pilot"
Product Investigation, Learning and Optimization Tool for Sustainable Product Development

Enables you to find measures to environmentally improve your product. This work is useful for engineers in product development or R+D, for designers, for environmental experts, for consultants and for students.

What is the "Pilot"? - The "Pilot" is a tool, that enables you to find measures to environmentally improve your product within a short time. The instructions given are formulated in the language of product design and can be implemented directly in product development. When to apply the "Pilot"? - Always when you are aiming at ECODESIGN solutions to environmentally improve products. For whom was the "Pilot"? developed - For engineers in product development or R+D, for designers, for environmental experts, for consultants and for students.

Preface. 1: It's Not as Simple as that. 1.1.
Identifying Interdependencies. 1.2. Make It Better Next Time.
2: Systematically Identifying Weak Points. 2.1. The Search
for Good Solutions Begins. 2.2. Combating Causes. 2.3.
Planning Influences Costs and Environmental Impact. 2.4.
Products Have Different Phases in Their Life Cycles. 2.5.
Recognizing and Modeling the Productive Life Cycle. 2.6.
Identifying and Modeling Environmental Relations. 2.7.
Environmental Impact Causes Environmental Problems. 2.8.
Products from the Perspective of Environmental Management. 2.9.
Establishing an Appropriate Product Characterization. 3: Targeted
Identification of Ecodesign-Measures. 3.1. Systematic Product
Improvement. 3.2. The Concept of an Ecodesign Database.
3.3. The Ecodesign Aspects along the Product Life Cycle.
3.4. From Ecodesign Aspects to Ecodesign Guidelines. 3.5.
Assigning Ecodesign Guidelines to Objectives and Strategies.
3.6. Assigning Ecodesign Strategies to Product Types. 3.7.
Three Steps Toward Ecodesign Product Improvement. 4: Prepare
Ecodesign for Product Development. 4.1. Principles of a
Methodological Approach to the Product Development Process. 4.2.
Fundamental Way of Thinking in Product Development. 4.3.
Fundamental Approaches in Product Development. 4.4. Integrating
Ecodesign in Product Development. 5: Embedding Ecodesign in
Product Development. 5.1. Relations between Ecodesign and
Environmental Management. 5.2. Integration of Ecodesign and
Environmental Management. 5.3. Will Ecodesign be Implemented?
6: Successful Initiation of Ecodesign Projects. 6.1.
Convincing Presentation of Ecodesign Benefits. 6.2. Considering
Critical Success Factors in Project Preparation. 6.3. Scheme of
a Successful Ecodesign Project. References.