Strategic product design and the optimisation of the structural features of a design can be an effective way to minimise resource consumption. Because water is one of the resources used in the production process, the principles of sustainable product design can be applied to water use. However, limited research has been conducted to date. This study introduces an approach for integrating water use assessment into the design processes of the Indonesian batik industry. This approach allows batik designers to explore…

Manufacturing processes and associated supply chains are a recognised source of carbon emissions. In part these emissions are related to the design of the product itself. For example, decisions surrounding the selection of materials have a high impact on emissions and hence the embedded carbon in manufactured products. While there are tools that support the analysis of designs from environmental perspectives, they tend to require near complete design descriptions that are only available later in the design and dev…

Abstract The architectures of extended enterprises, including the supply networks that design, develop and support large, complex, engineered products, often reflect system‐level design decisions made very early in the product development process. Design tools used at this, preliminary design, stage focus on the physics and optimization of product system behaviors. Comparable tools for the consideration of extended enterprise perspectives at this stage are not available despite the costs of non‐quality often attri…