Casamayor Alarco, J.L. orcid.org/0000-0001-8497-2947 and Su, D. (2021) Investigation of a process to eco-design LED lighting products. Sustainability, 13 (8). 4512. ISSN 1937-0695
Abstract
To date, many studies have been carried out to develop new approaches and methods to eco-design products. However, these have not been implemented and adopted by industry as much as they should. A better understanding of real-world industrial eco-design and development processes, and the eco-design tools applied during these, could inform the development of more effective and applicable eco-design methods and tools, for generic as well as for specific product categories (e.g., LED lighting products). This paper addresses this issue by describing and examining a real-world process followed to design and develop a LED lighting product by a lighting manufacturer, via case study research. The case study involved direct participatory observation to gather the data and provided new insights about the stages of the design and development process, as well as the tools applied, which were examined and discussed to inform the improvement of existing methods and tools, or the development of better new methods and tools.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | eco-design; eco-design methods; eco-design tools; eco-design process; eco-design process models; LED lighting products; lighting products |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Advanced Manufacturing Institute (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EU-CIP-EIP-ECO-INNOVATION N/A |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 19 Apr 2021 13:17 |
Last Modified: | 20 Apr 2021 10:15 |
Published Version: | https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/8/4512 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | MDPI AG |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3390/su13084512 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:173213 |