Design of Environmental-friendly Products Using Information

Standards

Products and services using TC184/SC4 series of

standardsAnna Moreno

ENEA

Rome, 14 April 2008

Objectives of projects To introduce life cycle thinking (LCT) in the

design of new products and processes; To create understanding of the use of product

data technology to support life-cycle thinking at the design stage;

To promote innovative learning processes to provide the necessary awareness, knowledge, skill to different users class;

To Certify new skills for the product data management for developing the capacity to decrease the time to market and to decrease the environmental impact of products using PDT

Life cycle thinking and Product Data Technology

The DEPUIS virtuous circle

knowledge

training

Life-cyclethinking Eco-

innovation

Skill

The key role of decision makers and teachers

Decisionmakers

Future generations

Designers

Technicians

Teachers

Multimedia handbook content: different content for different users classes

Fundamental and basic knowledge for everybody Integrated Product Policy Product data technology importance Basic understanding of LCA and ISO 14000

standards Basic understanding of ECODESIGN

knowledge specific for designers and teachers

Knowledge specific for technicians

New skills and their qualification/certificat

ion New skills needs to be recognized

among and within enterprises Stakeholders will define the criteria for

the qualification of the new skills An external body will certify the

competences in accordance to what has been established by the stakeholders

The certification will be recognized at international level

DEPUIS web site: www.depuis.enea.it

DEPUIS Partners

The use of PDT for eco-design

data for making decisions about sustainability and the impact on the environment is generated in individual computer systems;

this data has to be shared and exchanged between many different organizations with different systems and applications with many different methods of working;

the data has to be conserved for longer than the lifetime of any computer system or software application;

the data needs to be used and understood by unknown systems at unknown times in the future.

Engineering data to support the whole life approach

data to accompany a product throughout its life so that its end-of-life can be effectively managed;data that can be used to estimate the impact on the environment of the product throughout its life and to support design decisions that minimise waste and reduce emissions to the environment.

Standardised data representations independent from proprietary software

The main standards of product data technology that are important for the whole life approach are:

ISO 10303 – information models and resources to describe individual products, properties and processes in a computer-understandable form;

ISO 13584 – information model to specify dictionaries of products and properties and to support applications of ISO 10303 information models;

ISO 15926 – reference data library to specify terms and definitions for products and processes;

ISO 8000 – standards for the quality control and quality assurance of product data.

eco-design and data on the web

Most of the relevant standards were developed before the Web became a crucial part of everyday business activities. These standards are now being upgraded to take advantage of Web technologies, such as RDF and OWL.

Commercial cataloging systems have domain-specific taxonomies that are not interconnected

Information is stored in different, often proprietary, and incompatible formats

Data elements have to be translated and transferred manually among different systems

The result is a significant cost of time and money

The DEPUIS support to eco-design

The DEPUIS project has developed a distance learning system to combine different requirements of the whole-life approach:

an introduction to LCA for estimating the environmental impacts of products and processes;

an introduction on eco-design criteria an introduction to product data technology

and the International Standards for specifying the technical data for products that these estimations require.

The DEPUIS multimedia handbook:www.depuis.enea.it

The Interested Parties Forum

The self evaluation questionnaire

The searchable data base for standard

MDS for standards

Standards already uploaded

ISO 14000 series ISO 10303, Overview ISO 10303-11 ISO 10303-14 ISO 10303-21 (-28) ISO 10303-22 (-23, -24,

-27, -35) ISO 10303-42 ISO 10303-45 ISO 10303-201 ISO 10303-202 ISO 10303-203

ISO 10303-204 ISO 10303-205 ISO 10303-207 ISO 10303-209 ISO 10303-215 ISO 10303-216 ISO 10303-218 ISO 10303-236 ISO 15531 ISO 15926 - 2 ISO 15926 - 4 ISO 15926 - 6 ISO 18876 - 1

Contribution from editor or experts of standards have been used to create the Data base

The data base of good practices

Downloadable technical documents

MDS for courses

The registration to the web site

Profile:•decision makers•managers•designers•software developers•standards developers•teachers•students•others 

Skill qualification/certification

“Data base of other useful stuff”