Ecological design management for innovation in electronics

Abstract

To protect from natural menaces and gain conveniences, human beings have manufactured vast artifacts in the age of mass production. Unfortunately, the irrevocable consequences on the finite planet of unexpected or abandoned artifacts lead to unprecedented environmental changes and major accidents, which is negatively influencing the quality of life. The fact that such artifacts are conceived, developed and designed by human knowledge and technologies implies that we need to carry out fundamental research into such knowledge and technologies, and processes of their use for the creation of artifacts. In this paper, the authors present a method for planning and designing electronic consumer devices, on the basis of circulative resource management in technological innovation. The management of the assemble and re-assemble design process for the speaker of an audio component is analyzed as a case study.