Tutorials I, II and III (I & II)
A Tool-kit for Eco-Innovation
The tutorial is articulated around two parts, that can be followed independently. It is targeted towards a broad spectrum of R&D, product marketing and sourcing teams and aims at providing operational instruments for integrating “design for environment and success” into day-to-day business.
The first part sketches a road-map for eco-innovation, based on the OpenGreen® methodology. The environmental problem is carefully defined and positioned within the organisational and process framework of the company. An investigation of environmental burdens along the product lifecycle for non-LCA-specialists follows, insisting on readily available sources of information and simple, immediately applicable tools (Multi-Impact Multi-Steps Matrix MIMS, Browsing of Relevant impacts).
In the afternoon, there will be a deep-dive into the question of finding effective solutions to the environmental concerns and addressing the possible conflicts with other functional, production or cost requirements.
- Heading the problem solving tools for systematic innovation, we propose a simplified use of resource inventory and innovation principles in the form of “TRIZ for dummies” and illustrate with practices at Intel, one of the best established users of TRIZ.
- A presentation on how to select solutions will follow.
- Finally a set of “capitalisation tools” will demonstrate how to take long term advantage of eco-innovation by sharing skills, experience and know-how and setting-up collaborative platforms (online wikis, mind maps ...).
Sufficient space will be made all along for case studies from automotive and EEE industries, offering the opportunity for participants to practice and concretely take possession of the tools for eco-innovation.
This tutorial is a condensed form of training sessions routinely deployed by the authors within big corporations.
Presenters:
Anna Mogensen, PanOrder, DE
Hélène Teulon, Gingko21, FR
Francois Raffin, Auki, FR
Monday, November 8, 2010
08.30 – 13.00
Tutorial I: A Tool-Kit for Eco-Innovation – Analysing the Environmental Requirements with the OpenGreen Methodology
Fee: € 210,- (excl. VAT)
14.00 – 18.30
Tutorial II: A Tool-Kit for Eco-Innovation – Finding Solutions with the OpenGreen Methodology
Fee: € 210,- (excl. VAT)
08.30 – 18.30
Tutorials III (I & II): A Tool-Kit for Eco-Innovation – Full Day on OpenGreen Methodology
Fee: € 350,- (excl. VAT) – Combination of Tutorials I and II
Schoenbrunn Palace Conference Centre (1130 Vienna)
Tutorial IV
Green Electronics – Pathway beyond Compliance
Product Differentiation Today and Tomorrow
Sustainable assessment of products and services and its external communication have become a key business requirement for successful global acting companies. Any market sector shows activities in one or another matter, but the electronics market faces several additional challenges. Some examples are:
- lack of clear and common agreed definition of what is Green, Green IT or Green Electronics (difficulty of agreement of functional unit),
- complexity of products and lack of reliable Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) data for modeling carbon footprints or environmental profiles of products with BAT,
- credibility in published product carbon footprint results,
- incomparability between different product declarations and data publications and
- complex supply chains to a large extend commodity components and modules but also with leading edge technologies.
Contrary to this it is vital for business success to proof that green electronics claims are really reflecting an environmentally improved product and is not green washing communication. It can also support effective management of compliance with existing and upcoming environmental regulations.
The tutorial will give a summary of current activities and market trends related to environmental activities of electronics industry. It also will include legal aspects as well as voluntary actions, from the EuP/ErP requirements via REACH and material declarations up to product carbon footprint information, which are already provided from many companies.
Derived from this overview the tutorial will present and demonstrate on base of cases and real life examples, what is required to prepare and provide relevant competitive and voluntary environmental information to go beyond mere compliance. Examples are:
- what makes a product carbon footprint reliable,
- how to make it comparable to others within your company, in your sector,
- how to combine efficiently efforts for corporate and product carbon footprinting
- interactions in the triangle of (eco)designers, marketing and production engineering/
procurement and - how to establish and to maintain the supplier as reliable information source.
Exemplary solutions on base of case studies and real life demonstrations will enable the tutorial to become interactive. Participants will get for example product carbon footprints of own products and will learn how easy carbon footprint can be calculated and tracked with appropriate data and tools.
Presenters:
Dr. Constantin Herrmann is a principal consultant at PE INTERNATIONAL and responsible for the business area of electronics. He is expert on the subject of LCA, EuP and eco-design, End of Life assessment, EPDs, IPP and sustainability aspects. Additionally the subject of Carbon footprint of ICT and other electronic products and systems is a dominant field of activities as well as the business development against the background of European EuP Directive, the eco-design directive on energy using products.
Alexandra Saraev is a Sustainability Consultant and is sharing her working time between business area of electronics and business area of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). She is an expert on the subject of LCA, eco-design and CSR. Additionally the subject of Carbon footprint of ICT and other electronic products and systems is a dominant field of activities as well as development of sustainable reporting tools, support of the companies in the reporting to the CDP, implementation of the benchmarking platforms.
Michael Held is researcher at the LBP (University of Stuttgart) (www.lbpgabi.uni-stuttgart.de), which is cooperation partner of PE INTERNATIONAL. He is responsible for the electronics area of the department of Life Cycle Engineering at LBP and has gained international experiences in Life Cycle Assessment and ecodesign of electronics and photo voltaics.
Monday, November 8, 2010
14.00 – 18.30
Fee: € 200,- (excl. VAT)
Schoenbrunn Palace Conference Centre (1130 Vienna)
EPEAT Introduction
EPEAT® is the premier environmental rating system for electronics, scoring products according to over 50 lifecycle environmental performance criteria, and conducting ongoing third-party verification of claims. EPEAT covers 41 countries and has more participating manufacturers across more rated IT products than any other environmental registry. EPEAT enables purchasers to compare and select products from local or global suppliers based on environmental excellence.
Presenters will include:
Wayne Rifer – EPEAT Director of Standards and Verification and co-chair of the Environmental Assessment Standards Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) which develops the 1680 family of standards.
Monday, November 8, 2010
11.00 – 13.00
EPEAT – Introduction
Fee: Free to all interested parties
Schoenbrunn Palace Conference Centre (1130 Vienna)
Breakfast Workshop
Feedback on Using the BOMCheck Substances Declarations Web Database: Panel Discussion led by PHILIPS, SIEMENS, OSRAM, AGFA, TYCO Electronics and TOSHIBA
This breakfast workshop starts with brief presentations from Siemens, Philips, OSRAM and SAP/TechniData to highlight aspects of the BOMcheck substances declarations web database. The majority of the workshop comprises a panel discussion where BOMcheck users can discuss their experiences and approaches to using BOMcheck. This also provides an opportunity for OEMs who are considering joining BOMcheck to put questions to the panel for discussion.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
08.30 – 10.30
Fee: Included in Registration Fee
Schoenbrunn Palace Conference Centre (1130 Vienna)
Preparatory Event
International Workshop on Hazardous Substances within the Life Cycle of Electrical
and Electronic Products
28-31 March 2011, International Conference Centre, UNIDO HQTRS, Vienna, Austria
Organized by
Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
