Improvement Of Medical Product Through Design For Environment (DfE) Methodology : A Case Study Dialyzer
Design for environment is such an important methodology in discovering the new product environment that is equivalent in order to fulfill the customers’ needs and wants. The development of medical product followed by proper design such as considering on the design for environment can save both en...
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UTeM
2010
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| Summary: | Design for environment is such an important methodology in discovering the new
product environment that is equivalent in order to fulfill the customers’ needs and wants.
The development of medical product followed by proper design such as considering on
the design for environment can save both environmental and financial resources. This
report proposes the application of principle of Design for Environment (DFE) towards
developing a sustainable product. This concept is applied to consider the environmental
aspects at all stages of the product development process as well as to increase resources
efficiency at all stages of product life cycle ranging from extraction of its material,
manufacturing, packaging, transportation, product usage, and finally to recycling or
disposal of the product. The aims of this report are to strive for products which causes
the lowest possible environmental impact throughout the product life cycle. The
methodology carried out in this report is through analyzing an existing medical product
and implementing DFE tools and guidelines to design a new sustainable product. A
sustainability analysis is conducted concurrently with SolidWorks 2010, to evaluates the
environmental impact of a material throughout the life cycle of a product. Based on the
evaluation of result from sustainable analysis, a new sustainable material of product was
replaced to reduce effect to environment. Lastly, the evaluation and comparison of
environment impact and human health of the existing product and sustainable redesign
product is carried out with the life cycle assessment (LCA) method. The environment
impact is analyzed by mean of SimaPro software which is one of the LCA tools. |
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