Environmental Product Declaration

Consumers are paying more and more attention to the environmental performance of products. Especially in the B2B market Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) based on Life Cycle Assessment results are an excellent tool to communicate the environmental performance.

How does the environmental performance of your product look like?

Did you know that in France EPD will be mandatory by 2011 for all consumer products?

Three major crises we face today

We do face three major crises today. These are:

1. Global warming – climate change
2. Energy crises including Peak Oil
3. Food crises

All the three crises are interrelated. Question are today:

• How can a company prepare and adapt to the challenges of the future?
• How do the crises and their consequences effect the business model?
• What to do in order to stay competitive and successful on the market?

Answers to these and other questions we develop for our customers using the Sustainability Wheel based on our experience in developing sustainable technical solutions.

Interested? Call us today: +43 1 40 35 611 30

Re-shirt

Re-Shirt is a completely new approach to resource efficiency. Re-Shirt is giving a new life to T-shirts. Saving 10.000 Litre of water per T-shirt compare to conventional production.

What do you think about this new way of dealing with resources?

Email me know your opinion.

Environmental Audit

I am just coming back from a trip to Hong Kong doing an Environmental Audit at a plastic manufacturer in China. Significant energy saving potentials could be identified. Key Environmental Performance Indicators (KEPI) to monitor the energy performance have been developed and the cost improvements potential motivates to do even more in reducing the energy consumption in manufacturing plastic products.

If you are interested to carry out an Environmental Audit at your own products or manufacturing site please contact me.

ECODESIGN Workshop at the ICED 2007 in Paris

At the workshop on the 27th of August in Paris a product from a selected company was analysed with several scientific methods and approaches from scientists and experts from universities and research organisations active in ECODESIGN. The resulting improvement recommendations were evaluated and ranked based on their importance by all participants. The company now possessess a clear catalogue of prioritized tasks to be implemented based on the scientific state-of-the-art ECODESIGN knowledge and expertise. 

All participants are looking forward to the practical results to be presented by the company at the next workshop in 6 months. 

 

The ECODESIGN Special Interest Group aims at linking scientific research results from active universities and research centers with companies that are ready for implementing ECODESIGN methods for their benefit. 

Links

http://www.designsociety.org/ed-sig

 

ECODESIGN Tutorials

The ECODESIGN software tools for environmental product design can now be tested for their functionality and applicability in your organisation.

In just a few steps we are demonstrating and explaining how to use the freely accessible online tools with simple product examples.

Join us in the search for ideas to develop environmentally conscious products, products that do not only have a better environmental performance but also better operability, producibility and costs structure.

Use this to amplify your benefit and invite your customers, suppliers and partners to join you.

Ecodesign Tutorials from the Ecodesign Research Group at the Vienna University of Technology

I am happy to answer your questions and discuss ideas with you – do not hesitate to contact me.

ECOdesign and EGObalance

ECO – innovative products and services derive from a combination of creative imagination and technical excellence
guided from responsible management. This requires the use of less material and energy but using more of enhanced
creativity and manage collective knowledge effectively. EGO – balance allows enterprises to utilize the motivation and
creative momentum from staff members to establish inventive power.

In a new cooperation with Elle/Elle Visual Process management & Enterprise development located in Hamburg, Germany
the ECODESIGN company offers an integral approach to support product development within your company.
Material and energy flows to produce your products will be analysed and improvement options will be identified. Simultaneously a picture scenario will be drawn showing information and communication flows within your organisation leading to a landscape of motivation.
With this new service we want to use the interactions between humans and technical solutions for eco – innovations within an enterprise. Therefore we apply our own ECODESIGN tools but also systematic methods for organisation development such as the Universal Process Guide.
Visualizing ones problem is half way to a solution – sometimes surprisingly good solutions …

New PHILIPS Digital Pocket Memo

The new PHILIPS digital Pocket Memo is available now. It is a real eco-product with up to 85% less environmental impact compared to the previous product. We could provide the ECODESIGN support to the product development team at PHILIPS to achieve the improvements. If you want further information on the achieved results contact us via email or tel.: +43 1 40 35 611 30 (Office Vienna)

Newsletter 02/2007 is available

ECODESIGN company Newsletter – 02/2007

Siemens Hi-Tech Magazin 01-2007 – Articles about the metro train in Oslo and Ecodesigner Wolfgang Wimmer

You find a description of the ECODESIGN work we did in the Siemens Hi-Tech Magazin 01 – 2007. The magazin is published in german only (sorry for our english speaking readers).