Designing for Maintenance

Question 1

What is sustainable design?

- CT

Answer 1

It is a development on the basic design processes that focuses on reducing the impact to the environment.

Question 2

What sports clothing companies are a good commercial example of sustainable thinking?
- CT

Answer 2

Nike or Adidas.

Question 3

Recording the energy used as well as the wasted raw materials during the manufacturing process allows us to assess what?
- CT

Answer 3

How sustainable a product can be.

Question 4

What is the Life Cycle Inventory?

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Answer 4

It is a tool to give quantifiable measures of the eco-burden of a product or process.

Question 5

Which aspect of assessing a product’s sustainability considers:
Source, Quality, Quantity, Range of sources, Recyclability, Biodegradability
-XGM

Answer 5

Raw materials.

Question 6

What was bitcoin accused of in 2017 relating to sustainability?
-XGM

Answer 6

Having a poor carbon footprint due to the computing power required for the currency.

Question 7

What requirement gives consumers a guide to the sustainability of white good?
-XGM

Answer 7

They are required to be energy rated.

Question 8

What did ‘Liam’, the robot Apple developed, help to do?

-XGM

Answer 8

Disassemble iPhones so the components could be reused or recycled.

Question 9

Define Greenwashing.

-FW

Answer 9

Being deceptive about one’s environmental credentials.

Question 10

What is the difference between an LCA and an LCI? -FW

Answer 10

An LCI is quantitative but an LCA is qualitative.

Question 11

What considerations are there in the selection of raw materials?
-FW

Answer 11

Recyclability, Biodegradability, Source, Range of Sources, Energy in Extraction, Life Cycle.

Question 12

What is the benefit of using standard components? - FW

Answer 12

Higher repairability. Does not need to be replaced.

Question 13

What is the key idea behind ‘Designing for Maintenance’?

- HA

Answer 13

To make Sustainable product

Question 14

Efficient distribution is a stage of…

- HA

Answer 14

“good clean design”

Question 15

How can the manufacturing process be made “cleaner”?

- HA

Answer 15

Removing or simplifying complex processes, making the whole ordeal more efficient

Question 16

What goods are required to be energy rated?

- HA

Answer 16

White goods, a good example is a washing machine

Question 17

What does stand for LCA?

- HA

Answer 17

Life Cycle Analysis

Question 18

What is cradle to cradle design?

OH

Answer 18

Design that takes into account everything from the start to the end of the products life.

Question 19

What is the benefit of repairing products to consumers?

OH

Answer 19

Longer lifespan

Question 20

What can companies do to increase sustainability using their distribution?
OH

Answer 20

Designing sustainability into packaging - size, shape and tessellation.

Question 21

What is the most sustainable level of designing for manufacture?
OH

Answer 21

Designing something so that multiple similar products become obsolete.

Question 22

Why is the range of extraction sites important to consider when sourcing raw materials?
OH

Answer 22

A wide range can affect many cultures and different environments. A narrow range means transport is more concentrated and therefore less polluting in general.

Question 23

Is a Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) qualitative or quantitative?

-OTC

Answer 23

Quantitive

Question 24

Is a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) qualitative or quantitative?
-OTC

Answer 24

Qualitative