Abstract
Recently environmental concern for product design became increasing. The EU countries and U.S. tend to control the environmental performance of a product by regulation. The other countries who export the product to these countries are involved with this movement. The ISO standards and technical reports concerning DfE and CLA became to be much highlighted according to enactment of the EU directives ELV, WEEE and RoHS. An electrical and electronic equipment industry and an automobile industry may be the most affected by this movement. Japanese major set-makers for electrical and electronic equipment are recently constructing the supply-chain management system in order to confirm the compliance with the EU directives. This movement accelerates the incorporation of the environmental aspect into the product design system, and that is supported by the state-of-the-art information technology.
