THEMES

• Product life cycle management solutions: the new paradigms. Product families, configuration and modularization. Sustainability issues.
• Product Development Processes: design and manufacturing processes for sustainable product development. Product families, configuration and modularization. Innovative concepts for product development processes.
• Role of standards in sustainable product development.
• Role of IT, Bio-technology and nano-technology in the context of sustainable product development.
• Reuse, recovery and remanufacture of products.
• Economics of sustainable development. Globalization and its impact on sustainable product development. Economic surveys and analysis of globalization and sustainability.
• Energy and environment. Issues related to product sustainability, energy management and sustainability.
• Sustainable resource optimization: strategies, implementation and case studies.
• Emotional Engineering: Emotional aspects of product development and life cycle. Redesign and reinvent products and emotions. Impact analysis of emotional engineering on sustainability of products.
• Education and training for sustainable product development: Planning for future.
• Product-Demonstration by product developers: industry, entrepreneurs, students incorporating some aspects of sustainable product development..