人工物のライフサイクル設計(<小特集>劣化・老化とライフサイクル)

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The environmental issue is, without doubt, one of the most important and critical issues to be solved urgently. In this paper, we propose the concept of inverse manufacturing that reduces amount of wastes without increasing energy consumption by circulating artifacts not only as material but also as assembly. In order to realize such closedloop system, the most important point is that the designers should design products considering all environmental impacts in all life cycle stages. We call it green life cycle design. To support this, we propose the Green Browser that enables designers to create the concept of greenness of the product by visualizing trade-offs among environmental requirements and functional requirements. The Green Browser also helps stakeholders (e.g., employees, shareholders, consumers, regulators, NGO, etc.) to make consensus for the greenness of the product by encouraging them to access to environmental information. Experimental implementation of the Green Browser is also described. This implementation that employs WWW (World Wide Web) technology uses data of an actual refrigerator design.
1996-03-15