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Going Green

EcoDesign 2003:
3rd International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing

Date:
December 8-11, 2003

Venue:
National Olympics Memorial Youth Center, Tokyo, Japan

History

The "Third International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing", organized by the Union of EcoDesigners, follows EcoDesignf99 (Tokyo, February 1999) and EcoDesign 2001 (Tokyo, December 2001). EcoDesign 2001 gathered over 400 participants and about 250 presentations form various countries. The unified subtitle "Going Green" is commonly used among IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment, CARE/Electronics Goes Green, and EcoDesign. The Union of EcoDesigners is comprised of 50 scientific societies, foundations, cooperation, and associations in Japan.
It works in close cooperation with various organizations in the United States, Europe, and other areas. The purpose of this symposium is to encourage discussion and exchange information on a variety of topics including environmentally conscious design, elemental technologies, business, social system, and life cycle management, among participants from various countries, various backgrounds, and various professions. For this reason, the symposium focuses not only on new approaches in research but also on practical industrial case studies that have technical, strategic, or economic significance.

Scope

While sustainable closed-loop society is widely accepted as the indispensable concept for solving the environmental issues, its practice is still at incipient stage. In order to promote construction of such society, greater research and development efforts are needed on elemental enabling technologies and systematization, innovative design, and management of products, product life cycles, infrastructure, service, business, and society.

The purpose of this symposium is to encourage discussion and exchange information on a variety of topics including environmentally conscious design, elemental technologies, business, social system, and life cycle management, among participants from various countries, various backgrounds, and various professions. For this reason, the symposium focuses not only on new approaches in research but also on practical industrial case studies that have technical, strategic, or economic significance.

The gThird International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturingh, organized by the Union of EcoDesigners, follows EcoDesignf99 (Tokyo, February 1999) and EcoDesign 2001 (Tokyo, December 2001). EcoDesign 2001 gathered over 400 participants and about 250 presentations from various countries. The unified subtitle gGoing Greenh is commonly used among IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment, CARE/Electronics Goes Green, and EcoDesign. The Union of EcoDesigners is comprised of 50 scientific societies, foundations, cooperation, and associations in Japan. It works in close cooperation with various organizations in the United States, Europe, and other areas. And, the symposium is held in close cooperation with gEco-Products 2003h exhibition  held in Tokyo in December 11-13, 2003. Eco-Products 2003 will display many latest Japanese environmentally conscious products.

Topics

Main topics of the symposium are classified from the following two aspects; targets and methods. Individuals who wish to present a paper should choose both of one target and one method relevant to the paper. EcoDesign symposium covers not only electric and electrical products but also various products (including automobiles, heavy machines, machine tools, furniture, etc.), buildings, urban infrastructure, and society.

Targets

A: Sustainable Society
This area includes environmentally conscious social system and service, regional planning , eco-town, green procurement, resource saving and energy-conservation social system, reverse logistics system, and pollution-free environment and waste treatment system, etc.
B: Environmentally Conscious Businesses
This area includes eco-business model, corporate strategy, value chain / supply chain management, service strategy for dematerialization, business of waste treatment or waste water handing, consumption pattern analysis and consumer behavior model, eco-fund, zero emission, and leasing system of products, etc.
C: Environmentally Conscious Products & Services
This area focuses on environmentally conscious products (such as modular product, long-life product, resource saving and energy-saving product, and up-gradable product, etc), services related to eco-products, and servicification of products.
D: Environmentally Conscious Processes
This area focuses on various processes related to product life cycles, such as environmentally conscious manufacturing, maintenance and after market services, collection process, disassembly process, reuse and recycling processes, remanufacturing process, waste treatment process, and power generation process, etc.

Methods

I:  Design methodologies and tools
This area discusses design methodologies, methods / tools, and case studies for EcoDesign, such as design for environment (DfE), design for X, life cycle design, modular design, service engineering, QFD, and concurrent / collaborative engineering, etc.
II: Enabling Technologies
This area discusses enabling technologies related to the EcoDesign targets; including resource saving and energy-conservation technology, energy recovery technology, reuse and recycling technology, waste treatment technology, automation in recycling, information technology, Eco-materials, and lead-free solders, etc.
III: Management systems and tools
This area discusses management system, tools, and case studies for EcoDesign, such as environmental education, eco-labeling, environmental accounting, information sharing, environmental report, environmental management system, eco-fund, environmental grading, and product life cycle management, etc.
IV: Evaluation methods and tools
This area discusses evaluation methods, tools, and case studies for EcoDesign, such as environmental performance indicators, eco-efficiency, factor X, grading/index of sustainability, LCA, and life cycle costing, etc.

Activities

Symposium Venue

EcoDesign 2003 is held at National Olympics Memorial Youth Center (http://www.nyc.go.jp/e/index.html), Tokyo, Japan, which is located at central area of Tokyo.

Technical Session

Technical session consists of oral sessions and poster sessions. Each presentation in oral sessions will be given 20-30 minutes including discussion time. Poster sessions will give opportunities for direct discussions with authors.

Awards

Some distinguished papers presented at EcoDesign 2003 will be chosen as gBest paper awardsh by the international EcoDesign 2003 award committee according to contents of the papers. gBest poster awardsh will be also selected according to their contents and quality of posters.

Events

A Banquet will be held on December 9, 2003 evening. Details will be given in the Advance Program.

Exhibition: ECO-PRODUCTS 2003 Japan

All participants are invited to attend the gECO-PRODUCTS 2003 Japanh exhibition, December 11-13, 2003 at Tokyo Big Sight.

                                                                                                                                     (As of December 25, 2002)

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