Potential of Common Methods to Integrate Sustainability Requirements in the Product Development Process – a Case Study

Sustainability is a process of change, which ensures present gen-erations to meet their needs without preventing future generations from meeting their necessities. Products have a huge impact on sustainable devel-opment since product properties determine the product’s environmental im-pact. This contribution analyzes the potential of commonly known and estab-lished methods to support developers in designing sustainable products. Possibilities to integrate sustainability requirements, as well as thereby aris-ing difficulties, are considered. The development of an ice crusher is the use case for the analysis.     «

Sustainability is a process of change, which ensures present gen-erations to meet their needs without preventing future generations from meeting their necessities. Products have a huge impact on sustainable devel-opment since product properties determine the product’s environmental im-pact. This contribution analyzes the potential of commonly known and estab-lished methods to support developers in designing sustainable products. Possibilities to integrate sustainability requirements, as well as...     »