Study on Requirement-Centered Design Support for Environmentally Conscious Products (2nd Report)

Implementation of the Environmentally Conscious Product Design Support System

Abstract

Environmentally conscious design support systems need to help multiple designers to clarify variety and complicated requirements over the product life cycle in early design stages. To build such an environmentally conscious design support framework, requirement-centered design information structure and requirement clarification process which is called the ReqC (RequirementCentered) model was proposed in the preliminary report. In this paper, the GLC (Green Life-Cycle) model based on the ReqC model has been developed for supporting multiple designers to understand their design discussion in which product requirements are considered over the product life cycle. The Green Browser system is implemented in Java and CORBA based on these models. The system has been applied to an actual design session during environmentally conscious design. An Interview to designers proved the system to be useful for them.