Issue 189 by Daniel Collado-ruiz
The environmental impacts caused by human activity, affects all productive and commercial activit... more The environmental impacts caused by human activity, affects all productive and commercial activities that support the day to day. The
products of massive consume such as footwear drive large impacts according to the materials and processes used for their manufacture.
This paper present a literature review with the main aim to identify which are the phases and materials that cause greater environmental
impacts to the environment, focusing on leather shoes. The results demonstrate that different authors reach similar results in terms of
phases and high impact materials. The results permit change the current way of action and to focus the main efforts of research on
tanning process.
Papers by Daniel Collado-ruiz
International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 2011
Journal of Industrial Ecology, Oct 1, 2012
Summary Many authors have agreed on the interest of considering environmental concerns in the ear... more Summary Many authors have agreed on the interest of considering environmental concerns in the early stages of product development. However, most eco-design tools are based on life cycle assessment principles and require a model to give information about the product's environmental performance. This modeling can have negative effects on team performance and on the potential for innovation, not to mention on the project's duration. Additionally, the model requires information that is not available in the early design stages. This article ...
Journal of Mechanical Design, 2010
Résumé/Abstract A common recommendation when designing for disassembly is to develop more modular... more Résumé/Abstract A common recommendation when designing for disassembly is to develop more modular products. The common belief is that an increase in modularity will systematically reduce the time required in order to disassemble the product, reducing the cost of the process. This paper studies the statistical relationship between these two concepts by comparing 15 different electrical products. Modularity and disassembly performance are assessed by different indicators each and their correlation is analyzed. ...
Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Aug 31, 2010
In order for products to be comparable in different life cycle assessments, functional units need... more In order for products to be comparable in different life cycle assessments, functional units need to be defined. Nevertheless, their definitions tend to be simplified or ambiguous. There is thus a need to standardize these functional units, to be properly used for environmental comparison of the environmental performance of products. This paper introduces a systematic approach to define standardized functional units: the concept of fuons. Fuons are defined as an abstraction of a product, based on its essential function and representing ...
International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED'09, 2009
abstract: Engineering design is done in CAD systems. Environmental assessment is done by using LC... more abstract: Engineering design is done in CAD systems. Environmental assessment is done by using LCA software. Both worlds have strong relationships-especially when Ecodesign is to be implemented-but they are not necessarily connected. The project presented in this paper wants to link both worlds and show how the reduction of the environmental impact can be considered during engineering design processes. CAD systems include much information about different parameters of the product life cycle, from which Life Cycle Assessment ( ...
Design Studies, Sep 30, 2010
The positive effect of having environmental information is generally taken for granted in design ... more The positive effect of having environmental information is generally taken for granted in design for sustainability and ecodesign. Research in the field of creativity, however, has shown that the exposure to examples can provoke fixation and reduce the overall creativity of the idea-generation process. Different sorts and levels of information–commonly available for designers–was delivered to 56 people, all of whom were asked to generate different design ideas. Results prove that having detailed information–be it of previous models or of ...
Journal of Cleaner Production, Mar 31, 2010
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has proven useful in comparing the environmental impact of alternativ... more Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has proven useful in comparing the environmental impact of alternatives, life-cycle phases or parts in a product. To date, benchmarking a new product with previous environmental information entails a degree of subjectivity. This paper presents LCP-families, a concept to develop reference ranges for environmental impact of a new product. A new product can be catalogued as environmentally better or worse than a percentage of its competitors, depending on what position it occupies in its LCP-family. ...
International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 2011
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Issue 189 by Daniel Collado-ruiz
products of massive consume such as footwear drive large impacts according to the materials and processes used for their manufacture.
This paper present a literature review with the main aim to identify which are the phases and materials that cause greater environmental
impacts to the environment, focusing on leather shoes. The results demonstrate that different authors reach similar results in terms of
phases and high impact materials. The results permit change the current way of action and to focus the main efforts of research on
tanning process.
Papers by Daniel Collado-ruiz
products of massive consume such as footwear drive large impacts according to the materials and processes used for their manufacture.
This paper present a literature review with the main aim to identify which are the phases and materials that cause greater environmental
impacts to the environment, focusing on leather shoes. The results demonstrate that different authors reach similar results in terms of
phases and high impact materials. The results permit change the current way of action and to focus the main efforts of research on
tanning process.