Title: Integration of the environment in product design by a learning process: proposal for a piloting tool

Authors: Loic Jacqueson, Dominique Millet, Ameziane Aoussat

Addresses: FAURECIA, R&D/I, Etudes Avancees Route d'Etampes Brieres-les-Scelles BP 89, 91152 Etampes Cedex, France. ' Laboratory CPNI ENSAM Paris, 151 boulevard de l'Hopital, 75 013 Paris, France. ' Laboratory CPNI ENSAM Paris, 151 boulevard de l'Hopital, 75 013 Paris, France

Abstract: To integrate the environment in product design is not a recent idea. However, in spite of all the declarations made in this domain, it remains difficult to know and to evaluate the environmental qualities of a product, and therefore to know a fortiori if a particular product is better than another one. Without separating the question of the adequacy of available resources from the problems to be solved, we rely on the contribution of knowledge management to environmental integration to allow the product designers to better understand this new domain (i.e. the interface between the environment, product design and knowledge management). This paper proposes a learning piloting tool, specifies a development scheme, and describes its use with the help of examples.

Keywords: environment; integration; knowledge management; learning process; product design.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEP.2003.004308

International Journal of Environment and Pollution, 2003 Vol.19 No.4, pp.317 - 335

Published online: 10 May 2004 *

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