Sustainable Development of Coffeemaker Using Design for Environment (DFE) Methodology

Shivarajh, Egambaram (2008) Sustainable Development of Coffeemaker Using Design for Environment (DFE) Methodology. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Engineers are in an essential position to affect the environmental aspects of the product they design. Role of a design engineer has become increasingly vital not only to produce product to meet customers needs of quality and cost but also to produce products with as low environmental impact as possible. This report is about sustainable development of a coffeemaker by applying the Design for Environment (DFE) approach which aims to protect human health and preserve environment. In recent years, DFE has become an important approach since the world is facing problems of limited resources and serious environmental effects. DFE is an approach implemented at product design and development stage to avoid or minimize significant environmental impacts and increase resource efficiency at all phase of a product life cycle ranging from extraction of its material, manufacturing, packaging, transportation, product usage and finally to recycling or deposition of the used product. The methodology used in this report is by developing Philips’ coffeemaker as a benchmark and implement DFE tools and guidelines to produce a sustainable coffeemaker. From the result obtained, the evaluation and comparison of environmental impact and effect on human health of the Philips coffeemaker and sustainable coffeemaker is carried out with life cycle assessment (LCA) method. LCA software, SimaPro is used to carry out the assessment. By adopting DFE, a certain company can achieve the ISO 14001 international specification for Environmental Management System (EMS) beside other benefits such as encouraging the customers to accept its product, reduce environmental effect and conserve energy or natural resources.

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