Sustainable developmentand design practice

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Sustainable Developmentand Design Practice

Assignment is a minor project which requires you to focus on redesigning/modifying a particular current industrial practice for improvement of sustainability. It also aims to develop the oral and visual literacy that are appropriate to professional engineers.

Scenario and task

You are working as a new employee in an engineering consultancy firm, Green Engineering Consulting. The firm offers capabilities and services for its valuable clients that look to redesign or modify their current industrial practices for improvement of sustainability. Each type of client has a different focus:

Type 1 clients are interested in eco-design for product improvement
Type 2 clients want to implement cleaner production practices for process improvement
Type 3 clients need a redesign of their industrial symbiosis for improvement of their supply chain

Your management group has put all the new starters into project teams, and tasked each team with the development of a redesign or modification for one of these clients (each team can choose which project it wants to work on). As a member of one of the teams, you have the following parameters for your project:

Theme 1: Product Improvement

1) Select a product of moderate complexity

2) Analyse the product on

a. Functions

b. Structure

c. Components

d. Materials & junction systems

e. Life-cycle and environmental characteristics

3) Define a suitable objective or combination of objectives for redesign to facilitate (e.g. energy efficiency, reuse, remanufacture, recycle, etc)

4) Assess the 'fitness' of the current configuration of the product to meet the objective. Identify problems/limitations in terms of:

a. Architecture (e.g. layout, geometrical features, etc.)

b. Material contents

c. Joining mechanisms

5) Do some literature searching to inform yourself with examples, best practices, suitable approaches/techniques, and/or latest research.

6) Develop conceptual solutions for the redesign to achieve improvement (Note, you need to take into consideration of functional performance as well. Also, some computer modeling and graphic illustrations may be needed if physical/structural changes are proposed.)

Theme 2: Cleaner Production

1) Select a process or operations system of moderate complexity (e.g. bakery, coffee shop, machine workshop, etc.)

2) Analyse the process/system regarding (not limited to) the following characteristics and limitations:

a. Process flows

b. Material and energy inputs and outputs

c. Control and management methods

d. Technology and equipment

e. Associated environmental impacts

3) Define a particular objective or combination of objectives for modification to improve the operations in terms of

a. House keeping

b. Process design and control

c. Material input

d. Facilities and equipment

e. Recycling

4) Do a literature search to inform yourself with examples, best practices, and suitable approaches and techniques to use for the project.

5) Develop conceptual solutions for changes and improvement (Note, you need to provide discussions to justify the proposed solutions and how they contribute to the process improvement regarding the objective(s) defined)

Theme 3: Industrial Symbiosis

1) Select 2 or 3 manufacturing, processing, and/or utility companies.

2) Analyse each operations system regarding (not limited to) the following aspects:

a. Production requirements on inputs and infrastructure

b. Types of material inputs and outputs, including main products and by-products

c. Types of energy inputs and outputs

d. Sources of material and energy supplies

e. Associated environmental impacts

3) Identify inter-organisational synergy opportunities in terms of exchange or share of

a. Waste materials or by-products

b. Waste energy or water

c. Infrastructure and facilities

4) Do a literature search to inform yourself with examples, best practices, and suitable approaches and techniques to use for the project.

5) Develop conceptual solutions to facilitate the realisation of the synergy opportunities, including a proposal of technology/facility changes if necessary.

Deliverables

The management team expects you to complete this task as a group with contributions from all the group members. They are expecting three distinct elements to be demonstrated in your project work, which will also be the attributes assessed for quality of the work:

1. Group project report
As a project group, you are to develop a redesign or modification for the client, and then submit your development as a report. The management group will review and assess your report, based on the following criteria:
• Report structure and presentation style, including referencing
• Description of current product/process/system
• Identification and analysis of current problems
• Description of proposed solutions
• Discussion and demonstration of improvements
The management group also wish to review exactly how your group has worked together - the timing and length and attendance of any meetings, which collaboration tools you have used, and exactly what each group member has contributed. Because of this, they have requested that you submit your report, which will include two parts - the final report, and a page outlining the details of your collaboration and group work.

2. Group project presentation
While you are developing your project report, the management group wants your project team to prepare a presentation which conveys the concept outlined in your report. Your presentation should be no longer than 15 minutes.

3. Critical review and reflection

The senior management group considers self-reflection as a critical skill for modern engineering professionals, as is the giving and receiving of feedback.

Attachment:- Project details.rar

Reference no: EM132386967

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