Sustainable Product Development

Day 1: Defining and Planning Sustainability

• Defining and planning of sustainability
• Dimensions of sustainability
• Circular economy as a central concept, including paths of products and systems in a circular economy
• Scenario-based development of sustainable products: Identification, future robustness and prioritization of potentials of sustainability
• Definition of sustainability in the development process from product profiles to technical implementation

Day 2:  Designing Sustainable Products

• Presentation and evaluation of sustainable products:
  • in the market (e.g. based on Kano model).
  • criteria & existing approaches for measuring the sustainability of solution concepts and implementations; also: external certification possibilities, also beyond LCA
  • Internal tracking of target achievement of sustainable products
• Selection of material and its impact in the development process 
• Challenges in the use of sustainable materials and current solution and research approaches
• Existing approaches, challenges and examples of "design-for-sustainability" 
• Perspectives of sustainable product design

Pre-Requisites

We expect participants to have a first University Degree (Bachelor or equivalent) and recommend a minimum of 5 years of professional experience in the specific field of the course.