ECODESIGN -- The Competitive Advantage: The Competitive Advantage (Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries) - Couverture souple

Wimmer, Wolfgang; LEE, Kun Mo; Quella, Ferdinand; Polak, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9400733488 ISBN 13 : 9789400733480

Editeur : Springer, 2012

Synopsis

Dealing with environmental issues should no longer be considered simply as a cost of doing business. Effective environmental improvements to a company’s products and services can be turned into business opportunities. This book was written with the express purpose of helping managers of companies, in particular of Small to Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs), to better deal with environmental challenges and address customer requirements, all in order to turn their environmental inve- ments into competitive market advantages. Several examples are provided throughout the book, but also warning signs (Alert Boxes). These “Alerts” are posted to help managers avoid typical traps when working with environmental considerations in business processes. The authors have many years of experience in the various aspects of impleme- ing Ecodesign. This experience includes working in industry for many years; le- ing the environmental departments in a multinational company; managing research projects in eco-product development; Life Cycle Assessment; and national and international environmental communication and marketing. This book is the latest in a series. The 2002 “Ecodesign Pilot” introduced a tool and software to help design more environmentally compatible products. It was directed specifically at designers. The 2004 book, “Ecodesign Implementation”, was written to help project managers optimize product development processes from an environmental perspective.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This volume deals with the new EuP-directive of the European Union forcing manufacturers of electronic equipment to consider Ecodesign in their product development. Selling electronic equipment in the EU will require conformity assessment with the new EuP-directive currently under development. The conformity will be expressed by the mandatory CE-marking.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book describes the new European Union directive EuP-directive and standard IEC 62430, which requires manufacturers of electronic equipment to incorporate Ecodesign in product development, and provides a management path to achieving the needed CE-marking.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9400733488
• ISBN 13: 9789400733480
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
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