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    ALPHA MOTORS LTD Integrating Life Cycle Enviro

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    Alpha Motors strived to integrate environmental concerns into product design. Mike Barns led efforts as the environmental champion, focusing on minimizing waste and pollution. He used life-cycle assessment (LCA) to evaluate materials for a new hood assembly. LCA examines environmental impacts throughout a product's life, from raw materials to disposal. It is a 5-step process of goal setting, inventorying, assessing impacts, and improving. For the hood, Barns decided the EPS method was best to simplify impacts into one number for designers to compare steel, aluminum, and plastic options.

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    Alpha Motors strived to integrate environmental concerns into product design. Mike Barns led efforts as the environmental champion, focusing on minimizing waste and pollution. He used life-cycle assessment (LCA) to evaluate materials for a new hood assembly. LCA examines environmental impacts throughout a product's life, from raw materials to disposal. It is a 5-step process of goal setting, inventorying, assessing impacts, and improving. For the hood, Barns decided the EPS method was best to simplify impacts into one number for designers to compare steel, aluminum, and plastic options.

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    Alpha Motors strived to integrate environmental concerns into product design. Mike Barns led efforts as the environmental champion, focusing on minimizing waste and pollution. He used life-cycle assessment (LCA) to evaluate materials for a new hood assembly. LCA examines environmental impacts throughout a product's life, from raw materials to disposal. It is a 5-step process of goal setting, inventorying, assessing impacts, and improving. For the hood, Barns decided the EPS method was best to simplify impacts into one number for designers to compare steel, aluminum, and plastic options.

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    ALPHA MOTORS LTD Integrating Life Cycle Enviro

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    Alpha Motors strived to integrate environmental concerns into product design. Mike Barns led efforts as the environmental champion, focusing on minimizing waste and pollution. He used life-cycle assessment (LCA) to evaluate materials for a new hood assembly. LCA examines environmental impacts throughout a product's life, from raw materials to disposal. It is a 5-step process of goal setting, inventorying, assessing impacts, and improving. For the hood, Barns decided the EPS method was best to simplify impacts into one number for designers to compare steel, aluminum, and plastic options.

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    ALPHA MOTORS, LTD INTEGRATING LIFE-CYCLE ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS INTO PRODUCT DESIGN

    INTRODUCTION
    Alpha Motors, Ltd. a forward-looking, innovative company fostered a culture of concern for environmental issues. 2. Alphas basic platform consisted of sedans, coupes, and station wagons. 3. Alphas success was its strong brand identity.This identity is mainly as because company placed a high priority on pleasing buyers. 4. For three years in a row it placed third on the J.D. Power Customer Satisfaction Index, behind Lexus and Infiniti
    1.

    Alphas environmental efforts and organizational resources were focused primarily on minimizing waste through improved operational efficiency Alpha started to focus on developing an environmental strategy To develop and implement this strategy, the product development section established environmental champions in various areas (i.e., suppliers, marketing, product planning, and product design).

    Mike Barns was the most active environmental champion in the firm. He led the effort to integrate environmental concerns into Alphas design decisions. companies increasingly recognized that it was more efficient to prevent pollution at the source. By altering products and processes, industries could eliminate wastes---avoiding the escalating costs associated with pollution control equipment. DfE arose out of pollution prevention efforts of the 1980s

    LCA
    LCA is a systematic process that characterizes the energy and resource use and the environmental impacts of a product, process, or operation from cradle to grave, i.e., from processing raw materials through manufacturing, use, and ultimately, disposal. Regulators and policy makers saw LCA as a tool that could guide environmental policy development and assess the effectiveness of environmental laws and regulations. LCAs strength derived from its roots in traditional engineering and process analysis and from the recognition

    LCA WAS REGULARLY PRESENTED AS A FIVESTEP PROCESS


    1. Goal recognition 2. Inventory analysis 3. Classification 4. Valuation and impact assessment 5. Improvement

    Selection of a Hood Assembly

    Mike Barns had to submit his design teams hood assembly material recommendation by the following weeks XL2000 planning meeting

    Prior research indicated that the only technologically feasible choices for the hood assembly were steel, aluminum, and SMC plastic He had decided that the most advanced method for evaluating the environmental life-cycle impacts was the EPS Method (Environmental Product Strategies in product design) (1) it simplified environmental impacts in one single number for designers, (2) it moved beyond an emissions inventory to explore the actual environmental impacts of materials choices, and (3) it allowed for alteration of basic assumptions and sensitivity analysis

    Barns had been given the responsibility to work with EPS when choosing the material for the hood and to help the president understand its strengths and problems spreadsheet, based on the EPS system, included five tables: materials, manufacturing costs, end-of-life recovery operations, disposal rates, and environmental impacts.

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