A Review Of The Literature On Eco-Design In Manufacturing Industry:  Are The Institutions Focusing On The Key Aspects?

Segarra-Oña, María del Val; de‐Miguel‐Molina, María; Payá-Martínez, Ana

doi:10.19030/rbis.v15i5.6028

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“…While most ecodesign activities may originate from engineering design research and product development departments, it ultimately affects other research domains and company departments, including production, logistics, recycling, and many more. Explicit definitions of the term ecodesign are stated for example in [33,[42][43][44][45][46][47][48].…”

Section: Product Development Approaches To Reach Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Val Segarra-Oña and colleagues found that implementing ecodesign can make a company more competitive, cost-effective, better at developing new products and improve its image [42], and may even affect the behavior of its customers [64]. However, it also adds an additional layer of complexity to product development [24].…”

Section: Practitioner Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is an agreement among researchers that methods and tools are generally helpful and effective in reaching ecodesign goals [26,36,42,45,65,70,72,104]. Lindahl finds that designers are mostly satisfied with the functionality of the tools they utilize [105].…”

Section: Effectivenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ecodesign—A Review of Reviews

Schäfer

Löwer

2020

Sustainability

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With the intent of summing up the past research on ecodesign and making it more accessible, we gather findings from 106 existing review articles in this field. Five research questions on terminology, evolution, barriers and success factors, methods and tools, and synergies, guide the clustering of the resulting 608 statements extracted from the reference. The quantitative analysis reveals that the number of review articles has been increasing over time. Furthermore, most statements originate from Europe, are published in journals, and address barriers and success factors. For the qualitative analysis, the findings are grouped according to the research question they address. We find that several names for similar concepts exist, with ecodesign being the most popular one. It has evolved from “end-of-pipe” pollution prevention to a more systemic concept, and addresses the complete life cycle. Barriers and success factors extend beyond the product development team to management, customers, policymakers, and educators. The number of ecodesign methods and tools available to address them is large, and more reviewing, testing, validation, and categorization of the existing ones is necessary. Synergies between ecodesign and other research disciplines exist in theory, but require implementation and testing in practice.

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Section: Product Development Approaches To Reach Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Practitioner Perspectivementioning

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Ecodesign—A Review of Reviews

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Löwer

2020

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Lean and green product development: two sides of the same coin?

Johansson

Sundin

2014

Journal of Cleaner Production

141

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This paper compares and contrasts the lean product development (LPD) and green product development (GPD) concepts through a systematic literature review including 102 journal publications. The review resulted in 14 findings that were organised according to four dimensions: general, process, people and tools/techniques. A number of similarities between the concepts were found. For example, implementation of both concepts calls for a systems perspective where the dimensions of process-people-tools/techniques are linked holistically. Differences between the LPD and GPD concepts lie in: their goal and focus, value construct, process structure, performance metrics, and tools/techniques used. The findings do not unambiguously support that "green thinking is thinking lean" and consequently it cannot be argued that LPD and GPD are two sides of the same coin, meaning that LPD automatically leads to greener products or that GPD ensures improvements and efficiency in the product development process. However, it is reasonable to conclude that LPD and GPD belong to the same "currency". That is, the concepts share a number of similarities that indicate a synergistic relationship. This synergistic relationship has been accentuated by a nine propositions where the potential for cross-field learning is shown.

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