Eco Design

Eco-Design is an approach to designing systems with an intent of reducing its impact on the environment. It is often used synonymously with green design, design for environment. One of the guiding principles of Eco-Design is to consider environmental impacts in the entire lifecycle: from raw material extraction to after-usage through production, distribution and usage.

Our research involves understanding designers requirements and developing frameworks, methods and tools to assist them in designing systems with environmentally friendly lifecycles.

Sustainability

Sustainability is the ability to meet our needs and aspirations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs and aspirations.

The term sustainability is generally referred in the context of development i.e. in Sustainable Development. To develop sustainably is to continue improvement in harmony with the environment, society and economy.

Eco Design

Fast moving consumer goods

Engineering products

Sustainability

Aerospace Systems

Eco Design

A Method for evaluation of Environmental Impact of systems during early stages of development for entire lifecyle, funded by Department of Science and Technology (DST, India).

Sustainability

Sustainable Manufacturing (The Boeing Company, USA)

Eco Design

A framework called ACLODS for assisting design of environmentally friendly product lifecycles.

A tool for automated capture of design rationale while designing without hampering designers natural working procedure.

A method for estimating the uncertainty of the calculated environmental impact of a product lifecycle proposal in design using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approach.

A method for comparative evaluation of product lifecycle proposals with multiple criteria under uncertainty.

A computer aided support, IDEA-SUSTAIN for development of environmentally friendly product lifecycles.

Eco-Design and Sustainability Publications

• [1] Suman Devadula and Amaresh Chakrabarti, Design Strategies for Circular Economy, ICED, 2015. [pdf]
• [2] Suman Devadula, B Gurumoorthy and Amaresh Chakrabarti, Design for Sustainability: Case of designing an urban household organic waste management system, Current Science (Accepted) (2015). [pdf]
• [3] Harivardhini.S, and Chakrabarti, A., Expanding DRM framework to Formulate Supreme Causal Models from Research articles in the Area of Product Disassembly, Internation Conf on Research into Design 2015. [pdf]
• [4] Harivardhini.S, and Chakrabarti, A.,Comparison of disassembly effort and ergonomic hazards in dismantling electronic appliances by formal and informal recycling sectors in developing countries, Int. J. Product Lifecycle Management, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2015. [pdf]
• [5] Harivardhini.S, and Chakrabarti, A., E-waste Dismantling: Profitable at the cost of Occupational Hazard?, IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability, 2015. [pdf]
• [6] Suman Devadula and Amaresh Chakrabarti, Technology-led human development: From ability to capability, Design for Sustainable Well-being and Empowerment, 2014. [pdf]
• [7] Suman Devadula and Amaresh Chakrabarti, Understanding Sustainable Technology and Human Behaviour: Adolescence to Adulthood!, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technologies, v2 (2014). [pdf]
• [8] Suman Devadula, D Ganesh, B Gurumoorthy and Amaresh Chakrabarti, Design of a sustainable urban household organic waste handling system, Design for Sustainable Well-being and Empowerment, 2014. [pdf]
• [9] Harivardhini S and Chakrabarti, A., Analysis of dismantling processes for assessing disassembly effort and ergonomic hazards at the end of life of electronic appliances, ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, VOL. 9, NO. 3, MARCH 2014 [pdf]
• [10] Suman Devadula and Amaresh Chakrabarti, Sustainability and Research into interactions, ICoRD 13, 2013. [pdf]
• [11] Harivardhini.S, and Chakrabarti, A. , Analyzing Conflicts between Product Assembly and Disassembly for Achieving Sustainability, Internation Conf on Research into Design 2013. [pdf]
• [12] Chakrabarti, A., Rachuri, S., Sarkar, P., and Kota, S. (Editors). Developing Sustainable Products, Services and Manufacturing Systems, Research Publishing Services, Singapore, 2010.
• [13] Kota, S., and Chakrabarti, A. Idea-Sustain – An Aid for Environmentally Friendly Product Lifecycle Design, A Chakrabarti, S. Rachuri, P. Sarkar, S. Kota (Eds.), Designing Sustainable Products, Services and Manufacturing Systems, Research Publishing Services, Singapore, pp. 112-122, 2010. [pdf]
• [14] Kota, S., and Chakrabarti, A., A Method For Estimating The Degree Of Uncertainty With Respect To Life Cycle Assessment During Design, Special Issue on Sustainable Design, Steven J. Skerlos, Alexander H. Slocum,Karthik Ramani, (Eds.), ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 132, September 2010. [pdf]
• [15] Kota, S., and Chakrabarti, A. ACLODS – A Holistic Framework For Environmentally Friendly Product Lifecycle Design, Glabal Product Development, A Bernard (Ed.), Springer, 2010 (In Press).
• [16] Kota, S., and Chakrabarti, A. ACLODS – A Holistic Framework For Environmentally Friendly Product Lifecycle Design, 20th CIRP International Design Conference (CIRPDesign2010), Nantes, France, 2010. [pdf]
• [17] Kota, S. and Chakrabarti, A. Understanding the Needs of Designers for Developing Environmentally Friendly Products, Research into Design – Supporting Multiple Facets of Product Development, A Chakrabarti (Ed.), 128-135, 2009.
• [18] Kota, S., and Chakrabarti, A. A Method for Evaluation of Product Lifecycle Alternatives under Uncertainty, 17th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED09), Stanford, USA, 24-27 August, 2009. [pdf]
• [19] Kota, S., and Chakrabarti, A. Development of a Method for Estimating Uncertainty in Evaluation of Environmental Impacts during Design, International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED07), Paris, France, August 2007. [pdf]
• [20] Kota, S., and Chakrabarti, A. A Method for Comparative Evaluation of Product Life Cycle Alternatives under Uncertainty, International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED07), Paris, France, August 2007. [pdf]
• [21] Kota, S., and Chakrabarti, A. Development of A Platform for Supporting Design for Environment, International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED07), Paris, France, August 2007. [pdf]
• [22] Kota, S., and Chakrabarti, A. Use of DfE Methodologies and Tools – Major Barriers and Challenges, International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED07), Paris, France, August 2007. [pdf]
• [23] Kota, S., and Chakrabarti, A. Understanding the evolution of information about product life cycle with respect to life cycle assessment in design, National Conference on Design for Product Life Cycle – 2006, Birla Institute Of Technology And Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India, Feb 17-18, 2006.
• [24] Kota, S., and Chakrabarti, A., 'Understanding the Evolution of Product Life Cycle Information With Respect To Life Cycle Assessment in Design, in Product Life Cycle Management – Going Beyond Product Development and Delivery', A. Bouras, B. Gurumoorthy and S. Han (Eds.), Inderscience Enterprises, Geneve, pp300-316, 2006. [pdf]
• [25] Chakrabarti, A., Kota, S., Rao, N., Chowdary, S., Diwakar, J.E. A Designer Workbench with Real-Time Capture and Reuse of Information on Product Evolution and Rationale, International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED05), Melbourne, Australia, August, 2005. [pdf]
• [26] Chakrabarti, A., Kota, S., Harsha, T., Xavier, W., Diwakar, J.E. Need for a tool for supporting development of products with reduced environmental impacts, National Conference on Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, (AMR-04), Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur, 10-11 January, 2004.
• [27] Chakrabarti, A., Kota, S., Harsha, T., Diwakar, J.E. Green Product Development as a Vehicle for Delivering Green Science to the Society, in Green Chemistry, RK Sharma et al. (Eds.) CSIR Press, India, (also Invited paper at the Indo-US Symposium on Green Chemistry, University of Delhi, New Delhi, Nov 2003).