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The purpose of EcoDesign2019 is to bring together worldwide professionals interested in advancing the state of the art in EcoDesign for exchanging knowledge that encompasses a broad range of disciplines among various distinct communities.

Product Life Cycle Design and Business Innovation

■Environmentally Conscious Design of Products and Services

e.g., Life cycle design, Design for Environment (DfE), Design for Disassembly, Design for Recycling, Design for Remanufacturing, Design for behavior, DfX

■Life Cycle Management

e.g., Maintenance, Smart life cycle management, Life cycle simulation, Product lifetime, Reliability analysis, Machine health monitoring

■Sustainable Business Design

e.g., Product service system (PSS), Servicizing, Sustainable business model, Service engineering

Sustainable Manufacturing and End-of-life (EoL) Management

■Smart Manufacturing

e.g., Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0, Smart factory, Big data, CPS (Cyber physical system), Industrial AI, 3D printing

■Sustainable Manufacturing

e.g., Cleaner production, Lean manufacturing, Industrial symbiosis, Industrial ecology

■EoL Management and Process Technologies

e.g., Recycling, Disassembly, Remanufacturing, Refurbishment, Repair, Reuse, Urban mining, Critical raw materials (CRMs)

■Green Supply Chain Management

e.g., Closed-loop supply chain management, Reverse logistics, Operations research

Sustainability Assessment for EcoDesign

■Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

e.g., LCA methodologies, Carbon footprint, Material footprint, Water footprint, Material flow analysis (MFA), Material flow cost accounting (MFCA), Economic impacts of environmental regulations, Input-Output analysis, Environmental product declaration (EPD), Biomass, Food/Agriculture, Energy system

■Sustainability Indices

e.g., Resource efficiency, Energy efficiency, Material criticality, Total material requirement (TMR)

Social Perspectives in EcoDesign

■Social Vision

e.g., Circular economy, Sustainable society vision and scenarios, Environmental education, Corporate social responsibility (CSR), ESG investment, Locally oriented manufacturing, Design in aging society, Cross-disciplinary design

■Sustainable Consumption and Production

e.g., Sharing economy, Circular production, Behavioral science, Environmental consumer behavior, Social acceptance, Green marketing, Sufficiency

■Policy and Legislation

e.g., SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), Paris agreement, Ecodesign directive, Circular economy package, Recycling laws, WEEE directive, Green procurement, Extended producer responsibility (EPR), Eco-label, International standard

■Sustainable Social Infrastructure

e.g., Smart city, Green building, Green ICT, Intelligent transportation system, Autonomous car, Smart grid, Water security, Resilience