Design of Environmental-friendly Products Using Information
Standards
Products and services using TC184/SC4 series of
standardsAnna Moreno
ENEA
Rome, 14 April 2008
Objectives of projects To introduce life cycle thinking (LCT) in the
design of new products and processes; To create understanding of the use of product
data technology to support life-cycle thinking at the design stage;
To promote innovative learning processes to provide the necessary awareness, knowledge, skill to different users class;
To Certify new skills for the product data management for developing the capacity to decrease the time to market and to decrease the environmental impact of products using PDT
Life cycle thinking and Product Data Technology
The DEPUIS virtuous circle
knowledge
training
Life-cyclethinking Eco-
innovation
Skill
The key role of decision makers and teachers
Decisionmakers
Future generations
Designers
Technicians
Teachers
Multimedia handbook content: different content for different users classes
Fundamental and basic knowledge for everybody Integrated Product Policy Product data technology importance Basic understanding of LCA and ISO 14000
standards Basic understanding of ECODESIGN
knowledge specific for designers and teachers
Knowledge specific for technicians
New skills and their qualification/certificat
ion New skills needs to be recognized
among and within enterprises Stakeholders will define the criteria for
the qualification of the new skills An external body will certify the
competences in accordance to what has been established by the stakeholders
The certification will be recognized at international level
DEPUIS web site: www.depuis.enea.it
DEPUIS Partners
The use of PDT for eco-design
data for making decisions about sustainability and the impact on the environment is generated in individual computer systems;
this data has to be shared and exchanged between many different organizations with different systems and applications with many different methods of working;
the data has to be conserved for longer than the lifetime of any computer system or software application;
the data needs to be used and understood by unknown systems at unknown times in the future.
Engineering data to support the whole life approach
data to accompany a product throughout its life so that its end-of-life can be effectively managed;data that can be used to estimate the impact on the environment of the product throughout its life and to support design decisions that minimise waste and reduce emissions to the environment.
Standardised data representations independent from proprietary software
The main standards of product data technology that are important for the whole life approach are:
ISO 10303 – information models and resources to describe individual products, properties and processes in a computer-understandable form;
ISO 13584 – information model to specify dictionaries of products and properties and to support applications of ISO 10303 information models;
ISO 15926 – reference data library to specify terms and definitions for products and processes;
ISO 8000 – standards for the quality control and quality assurance of product data.
eco-design and data on the web
Most of the relevant standards were developed before the Web became a crucial part of everyday business activities. These standards are now being upgraded to take advantage of Web technologies, such as RDF and OWL.
Commercial cataloging systems have domain-specific taxonomies that are not interconnected
Information is stored in different, often proprietary, and incompatible formats
Data elements have to be translated and transferred manually among different systems
The result is a significant cost of time and money
The DEPUIS support to eco-design
The DEPUIS project has developed a distance learning system to combine different requirements of the whole-life approach:
an introduction to LCA for estimating the environmental impacts of products and processes;
an introduction on eco-design criteria an introduction to product data technology
and the International Standards for specifying the technical data for products that these estimations require.
The DEPUIS multimedia handbook:www.depuis.enea.it
The Interested Parties Forum
The self evaluation questionnaire
The searchable data base for standard
MDS for standards
Standards already uploaded
ISO 14000 series ISO 10303, Overview ISO 10303-11 ISO 10303-14 ISO 10303-21 (-28) ISO 10303-22 (-23, -24,
-27, -35) ISO 10303-42 ISO 10303-45 ISO 10303-201 ISO 10303-202 ISO 10303-203
ISO 10303-204 ISO 10303-205 ISO 10303-207 ISO 10303-209 ISO 10303-215 ISO 10303-216 ISO 10303-218 ISO 10303-236 ISO 15531 ISO 15926 - 2 ISO 15926 - 4 ISO 15926 - 6 ISO 18876 - 1
Contribution from editor or experts of standards have been used to create the Data base
The data base of good practices
Downloadable technical documents
MDS for courses
The registration to the web site
Profile:•decision makers•managers•designers•software developers•standards developers•teachers•students•others
Skill qualification/certification
“Data base of other useful stuff”
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