Our Product Design and Manufacturing Principle

Design and manufacture of high quality/performance products with improved/enhanced functionality using energy-efficient, toxic-free, hazardless, safe

and secure technologies and manufacturing methods utilizing optimal resources and energy by

producing minimum wastes and emissions, and providing maximum recovery, recyclability,

reusability, remanufacturability, with redesign features, and all aimed at enhanced societal

benefits and economic impact.

Increasing Stakeholder Value through Sustainable Manufacturing

Use of 6R concept of manufacturing

Product Value Gained from use of 6Rs

Following a continuous Improvement Model for our Products

Backcasting

• What do we need to do today to reach that successful outcome?

• Strategic sustainable development relies on ‘backcasting from sustainability principles’

• If these principles are violated, our global society is un-sustainable.

• Backcasting from principles is more like chess – we don’t know exactly what success will look like, but we know the principles of checkmate – and we go about playing the game in a strategic ways, always keeping that vision of future success in mind.

Reduce and eventually eliminate our contribution to the systematic accumulation of materials from the earth’s crust

The Sustainability Principles: Step 1

Reduce and eliminate our contribution to the systematic accumulation of substances produced by society

Desktop Waste PCBs LCD Panels Plastic Components Plastic Casing Batteries

Proposal Recycling of Plastic from other Industries Design for Recycling & Disposal(disassembly) Styrene Foam Free Packaging

The Sustainability Principles: Step 2

Reduce and eliminate our contribution to the ongoing physical degradation ofnature

• Reuse of rare earth material Reuse of rare earth material throughout the life of the Company,

example :Cd

• Use of Energy Efficient material Higher battery life Using solid state storage devices instead of hard disk drives Better heat dissipation design for enhanced effeciency Using LED displays instead of CRTs/LCDs

The Sustainability Principles: Step 3

Reduce and eliminate our contribution to conditions that systematically undermine people’s ability to meet their basic needs

Change Business Practices, Suppliers, Vendors Ensuring

Respect of human rights Removal of Income Making Barriers Safe and Health Work environment Allow local communities to meet their needs

The Sustainability Principles: Step 4

ABCD Planning Process

4 Steps are involved:

• Awareness• Baseline Analysis• Compelling Vision• Down to Action

ABCD Spiral steps can be taken… Generating increasing engagement and

awareness of sustainability (A) Clarifying the gap between the current

reality and desired sustainable future (B) The group’s aspirations and its reality will

help sparking more ideas and innovations (C)

Implementing smart moves towards sustainability (D)

ABCD Strategy for Desktop Manufacturing

• Awareness & Visioning:

– A team created with the responsibility of spreading awareness. This team should ensure that the raw materials used for manufacturing purpose are all following the sustainability principles.

– For desktop manufacturing we propose a vision of avoiding raw materials which are extracted from the earth's crust or are built up using the chemicals and compounds produced by the society

– The manufacturing process to have proper safety and environment measures so that we can lower the physical degradation and destruction of nature and natural processes.

– Manufacturing conditions to meet basic human needs

• Baseline Mapping:

– A Canterbury University study reported that the average power use for CRT monitors is 60–75 watts, and about half of that for equivalent-sized LCD displays. As the life of a monitor is directly related to the amount of time it is powered on, turning them off when not in use not only saves electricity but also extends their life

– So for our desktop manufacturing we will take this as an opportunity to improvise the energy consumption by our desktop computers and will emphasize on manufacturing of LCD desktops. An awareness campaign for the same can also be held

ABCD Strategy for Desktop Manufacturing

• Creative Solutions:– By backcasting on the usage of the product by the society at large, we

can strategize a move to ensure proper disposal of our products under proper compliance measures

– Techniques known as overwriting, degaussing and destruction can be used

• Decide on Priorities:– i) Does this action move us in the right direction?– ii) Can this action be built upon in future?– iii) Does this action bring an acceptable financial, ecological and/or

social return on investment?– This step involves step-by-step implementation and planning

ABCD Strategy for Desktop Manufacturing