Topics
Scope
The purpose of EcoDesign2019 is to bring together worldwide professionals interested in advancing the state of the art in EcoDesign for exchanging knowledge that encompasses a broad range of disciplines among various distinct communities.
Topics
Product Life Cycle Design and Business Innovation
- ■Environmentally Conscious Design of Products and Services
- e.g., Life cycle design, Design for Environment (DfE), Design for Disassembly, Design for Recycling, Design for Remanufacturing, Design for behavior, DfX
- ■Life Cycle Management
- e.g., Maintenance, Smart life cycle management, Life cycle simulation, Product lifetime, Reliability analysis, Machine health monitoring
- ■Sustainable Business Design
- e.g., Product service system (PSS), Servicizing, Sustainable business model, Service engineering
Sustainable Manufacturing and End-of-life (EoL) Management
- ■Smart Manufacturing
- e.g., Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0, Smart factory, Big data, CPS (Cyber physical system), Industrial AI, 3D printing
- ■Sustainable Manufacturing
- e.g., Cleaner production, Lean manufacturing, Industrial symbiosis, Industrial ecology
- ■EoL Management and Process Technologies
- e.g., Recycling, Disassembly, Remanufacturing, Refurbishment, Repair, Reuse, Urban mining, Critical raw materials (CRMs)
- ■Green Supply Chain Management
- e.g., Closed-loop supply chain management, Reverse logistics, Operations research
Sustainability Assessment for EcoDesign
- ■Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
- e.g., LCA methodologies, Carbon footprint, Material footprint, Water footprint, Material flow analysis (MFA), Material flow cost accounting (MFCA), Economic impacts of environmental regulations, Input-Output analysis, Environmental product declaration (EPD), Biomass, Food/Agriculture, Energy system
- ■Sustainability Indices
- e.g., Resource efficiency, Energy efficiency, Material criticality, Total material requirement (TMR)
Social Perspectives in EcoDesign
- ■Social Vision
- e.g., Circular economy, Sustainable society vision and scenarios, Environmental education, Corporate social responsibility (CSR), ESG investment, Locally oriented manufacturing, Design in aging society, Cross-disciplinary design
- ■Sustainable Consumption and Production
- e.g., Sharing economy, Circular production, Behavioral science, Environmental consumer behavior, Social acceptance, Green marketing, Sufficiency
- ■Policy and Legislation
- e.g., SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), Paris agreement, Ecodesign directive, Circular economy package, Recycling laws, WEEE directive, Green procurement, Extended producer responsibility (EPR), Eco-label, International standard
- ■Sustainable Social Infrastructure
- e.g., Smart city, Green building, Green ICT, Intelligent transportation system, Autonomous car, Smart grid, Water security, Resilience