Pro Carton Event Vienna

Our next generation understanding of sustainable products has been appreciated at the Pro Carton event in Vienna.
Summary of the talk.

Do you like honey?

We love it! Especially the one from our own hives.

Do you know about the Varroa mite? A parasite that is endangering bee populations in Europe, US and New Zealand. This mite is currently controlled using chemicals in the bee hive. We are developing an innovative treatment using heat instead of chemicals.

First set of tests show promising results. The ECODESIGN Varroa-Controller will be introduced to the market soon.

PS: It is not only about honey but about our food security: No bees mean no pollination resulting in less or no fruit and vegetables.

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.

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)