British Standards Institution has just published the second part in its series of standards on design for manufactured products. The BS 8887 series can help to reduce the damaging impacts of manufactured products by including environmentally sensitive design principles during the early phase of new product development.
BS 8887-2 defines terms used in the design for manufacture, assembly, disassembly and end-of-life processing: definitions cover remanufacture; carbon footprint; end-of-life; re-use; and recondition.
Standard terminology can help transfer a design concept to manufacture in a way that is most efficient, cost-effective and environmentally aware, says BSI. BS 8887-2 aims to remove any ambiguity surrounding design terminology, thereby reducing possible confusion both to industry and to end users.
This is the second part in a proposed series of four standards. Part 1 specified the general concepts, process and requirements to transfer a design concept to manufacture; BS 8887-2 creates a standard vocabulary for this process. Work is currently in hand on further parts to the standard looking at best practice and remanufacturing.
