Abstract
In these years, as the correspondence of the global environmental problems like global warming, exhaustion of energy and so on, the construction of the environmental-friendly society is strongly required. For constructing such society, as concerns the industrial products not only the consideration to 3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) at the design stage, but also the management, by the maker itself, of the energy saving at the using stage and proper treatment for the used products at the recycle and waste stage is demanded under the principle of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). However, such a system that manages all the life cycle of the industrial products is not investigated enough. In this study, we attempted to construct such a synthetic environmental-friendly technology for production and operation of industrial machines, especially pump system, by using special IC tag. We call this system, Environmental Information System. In parallel with the development of the special IC tag, which exchanges information between each life cycle stage, we investigate some other technologies for decreasing the environmental impact in each process. Then, in this report, we show the effectiveness of this system in terms of environmental impact by applying Eco-Efficiency Potential Assessment (E2-PA), which is the environmental load assessment technique we develop.
