Best Papers
EcoDesign2025 Best Paper Awards were awarded to the following authors and papers.
The best papers were selected from 90 e-book papers. The papers were evaluated in their scientific contribution, practical contribution, and relevance to the symposium topics.
- Núria Boix Rodríguez 1, 2, Terrin Pulikottil1, 2, Joren Van den Bosch1, 2, Jef R. Peeters1, 2
(1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven, 2. Flanders Make @ KU Leuven)
“Ease of human-robot cooperative disassembly metric and related ecodesign guidelines: A case study on redesigning a robotic vacuum cleaner” - Atsushi Yamada 1, Kazutoshi Kodama 1, Koichiro Yasuda 1, Yoshihide Segawa 1, Masaaki Enami 1
(1. DENSO CORPORATION)
“Realization of Sustainable Production based on Backcasting Approach
– Application and Verification of Effects in Automotive Parts Manufacturing –” - Ippei Kono 1, 3, Sanae Nakao 1, Hideki Sato 1, Akio Koketsu 2, Yoshiyuki Furukawa 3, Keijiro Masui 3
(1. Hitachi, Ltd., 2. Hitachi Channel Solutions, Corp., 3. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
“Evaluation of ATM Part Reuse Business Using Life Cycle Simulator”
The papers were included in the proceedings that were delivered to the symposium participants. Also, the papers will be available in the E-book titled “EcoDesign Accelerating Social Transformation” to be published by Springer in 2026.
EcoDesign2025 Award Committee
– [Chair] Mitsutaka Matsumoto (AIST, Japan)
– Tomomi Nonaka (Waseda University, Japan)
– Nils F. Nissen (Fraunhofer IZM, Germany)
– Allen H. Hu (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan)
– Bernd Kopacek (Austrian Society for Systems Engineering and Automation, Austria)