Product Standards for Multiple-Function Products in Product Policy
Author
Editor
- Yasushi Umeda
- Shigehito Ibuka
- Mitsutaka Matsumoto
- Keijiro Matsui
Summary, in English
Emergence of multiple-function products (MFPs) poses a variety of challenges and risks for achieving sustainable consumption and production as well as fair consumer society and universal design. We
overviewed MFPs from these viewpoints and then, focusing on product standard as a means to create mechanisms to reduce environmental loads from products, elucidated advantages and limitation of five
approaches of standard-setting for MFPs. The five approches examined were (1) neglecting a multiple function, (2) individual presentation of every function, (3) integrated evaluation of functions, (4)
segementation of products, and (5) use of frontier analysis.
overviewed MFPs from these viewpoints and then, focusing on product standard as a means to create mechanisms to reduce environmental loads from products, elucidated advantages and limitation of five
approaches of standard-setting for MFPs. The five approches examined were (1) neglecting a multiple function, (2) individual presentation of every function, (3) integrated evaluation of functions, (4)
segementation of products, and (5) use of frontier analysis.
Publishing year
2011
Language
English
Pages
476-481
Publication/Series
Design for innovative value towards sustainable society --- Proceedings of Eco-Design 2011: 7th International Conference on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing
Volume
7
Document type
Conference paper
Publisher
Springer
Topic
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Keywords
- multi-functionality
- product standards
- frontier products
Status
Published