Seminar Sustainability in product development

  • 15.05.2025
  • RWTH Aachen Campus, Cluster Produktionstechnik, Campus-Boulevard 30, 52074 Aachen
  • 895,00 EUR

The future of sustainable industrial production lies in mastering the circular economy. Against the background of the necessary reduction in energy and resource consumption, the approaches of overcapacity and overproduction must be replaced by sustainable thinking in material cycles. This requires new, interdisciplinary approaches, processes and tools. In the seminar, you will learn the basics and methods for the holistic and sustainability-oriented creation and development of products as well as the management of the product life cycle.

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Agenda

TimeProgramme item
09:00Begrüßung und Einführung
09:15Vortrag | Vision für eine nachhaltigere Zukunft
10:15Pause & Networking
10:30Vortrag | Grundlagen und Begriffserklärungen im Kontext der Nachhaltigkeit
11:30Vortrag | Produktplanung – Märkte segmentieren und Anforderungen verstehen
12:00Gemeinsames Mittagessen
13:00Vortrag | Produktentstehung – Design for X Ansätze zur Gestaltung nachhaltiger Produkte
13:30Vortrag | Produktnutzung – Kontinuierliches Innovieren in der Nutzungsphase
14:15Pause & Networking
14:30Workshop | Fallbeispiel zum Lebenszyklusmanagement
15:15Vortrag | Organisatorische und systemseitige Voraussetzungen
16:00Wrap Up "What to do on Monday"

Event description

Life cycle management must be designed systemically in order to understand and design circular business models, sustainable product concepts, resource-conserving production structures, long-term use of products and efficient reuse of materials. In the seminar, you will first learn about the fundamentals and strategies of the circular economy and the implications for the product life cycle. Methods for analysis, control and implementation in the individual life cycle phases will be presented and discussed with you in greater depth.                                                                                                 

As part of product planning, the focus is on explaining methods for data-based recording and analysis of customer requirements, for segmenting markets and for transferring market features to technical product characteristics. The product creation phase comprises the development and production of products. The systematic structuring and evaluation of products using modular product architectures is discussed. At the same time, you will learn about the possibilities for managing products and product portfolios using configuration knowledge. In the context of product usage, you will be introduced to methods that enable a targeted analysis of usage data and the derivation of implications for product improvement. The possibilities for value-enhancing extension of product utilization through the creation of continuous innovations will be demonstrated. Finally, product return and methods for developing different return strategies such as reuse, repair, remanufacturing or recycling are discussed and approaches for designing small cycles are presented. Finally, relevant roles and structures for organizational and system-side anchoring are presented.                                                   

In interactive presentations and workshops, case studies for holistic life cycle management in the sense of the circular economy will be discussed. We will present success factors identified from practical examples and in the workshop you will deepen what you have learned through direct application.

By participating in the seminar you will learn...:

  • the basics of the circular economy in manufacturing companies and the implications for the entire product life cycle
  • methods for the development, production, use and recycling of circular products
  • how you can systematically analyze the market and customer perspective
  • how to analyze your existing products and processes
  • how you can make targeted use of product recycling
  • know many examples from practice
  • how to successfully anchor and manage the topics in your company

Topic areas

  • Sustainability
  • Circular economy
  • Product life cycle
  • Product design
  • Product creation
  • sustainability
  • Circular Economy

Target group

Your contact

Alexander Keuper, Ph. D.

Tel.: +49 241 80 22151
Mobil: +49 151 43115499

Alexander.Keuper@complexity-academy.com

Experience

  • Beratungsprojekte zur Entwicklung von Baukastenkonzepten im Maschinen- und Anlagenbau sowie bei Komponentenherstellern
  • Beratungsprojekt zum Variantenmanagement eines Herstellers von Hochspannungselektronik
  • Betreuung von Industriearbeitsgruppen und Organisation von Expertentreffen im Bereich Innovationsmanagement und Market Intelligence
  • Organisation und Durchführung von Kongressen zum Komplexitätsmanagement


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