Reviews the life cycle of industrial products including current product & packaging design & development, purchasing, logistics & transport practice, factors that determine it, the environmental & social impacts they cause, & finds sustainable alternatives.
Objectives
Develop a comprehensive appreciation of the business functions responsible for the total life-cycle of products pre- and post- manufacture, that is a) design, development and packaging, b) purchasing and supply chain management, c) transport and logistics; their current practices and processes and the factors determining them, including staff background, education, attitudes, values, culture and job pressures - and the environmental and social impacts occasioned by these practices.
Develop comprehensive and systematic knowledge and understanding of the potential nature, scale, relative importance, and methods / protocols for measuring, the environmental and social aspects and impacts arising during total product or service life cycle, both generally and for a specific product-system.
Describe, appreciate and be able to communicate the main approaches and latest theoretical and practical developments in a) finding sustainable alternatives for damaging aspects of the life-cycle and b) managing the design of processes to move towards environmentally and socially sustainable activity.
Understand, justify, communicate and secure solid support for initiating integrated management, technical, process and systems changes & programmes in these areas aimed at achieving significant movement towards environmental and social sustainability, at every level.
Times
The seminar assembles at 08:30 am for a 9:00 am start each day and finishes at approximately 5:30 pm. The seminar is intensive, please be prepared for evening sessions.
Three weeks before start date. Fees are payable in full unless cancellations are received in writing before this date. Transfers are possible and will incur a 25% fee per change.
Sustainable Life-Cycle Management Booking Form
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Sustainable Life-Cycle Management speakers are chosen from among:
Tom Bramley is Sustainability Consultant for Coventry City Council, advising and supporting the development of 'Business Sustain' (formerly 'Greening Industry'), a partnership body between Coventry Council, Jaguar and Land Rover to assist Automotive suppliers respond practically to the environmental and sustainable development agendas. Formerly Environmental Purchase Champion for Jaguar and Land Rover and an active member of the Jaguar/Land Rover Environmental Forum and Ford Purchasing Global Environmental Council, Tom has over 30 years experience in purchasing and supply chain management. He is a member of the Environmental Management Systems Technical Advisory Committee (EMSTAC) of UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Services) and has internationally leading experience in relation to the greening of purchasing and supply chains.
Prof. Martin Charter is Coordinator and Visiting Professor of Sustainable Product Design at The Centre for Sustainable Design at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College. He has had a background in 'business and environment' issues in consultancy, publishing, management education, events and research; and strategy, marketing and research in gardening, construction, trade exhibitions, financial services and consultancy. He is Editor of the Journal of Sustainable Design and an associate editor of The Journal of Corporate Environmental Strategy and former editor of Greener Management International and the Green Management Letter. Other responsibilities include being Chair of the Product Development group of the ISO working group on 'integrating environment aspects into product development', an Advisory Board member of Design Sense (sustainable product design) awards and involvement in several British Standards Institution (BSI) committees on environment.
Edwin Datschefski is a Senior Associate Fellow of the Centre for Sustainability and Environmental Management. He specialises in the development and promotion of sustainable product design concepts, founded an eco design consultancy, is a consultant & trainer to many leading business & public organisations, writs on sustainability, and is former director of Business and the Environment.
Prof. Ross King is a Co-Founder and Director of the Centre for Sustainability and Environmental Managment. He has jointly led the first and largest Programme of Environmental Management training in the UK . He originated on-site Environmental and EMS Auditors' training in Europe in early 1992 and has worked with over 1000 managers and consultants during this period. He has focussed since the early '90s within environmental management on audit, management systems, accounting, market research and marketing. Former Environmental Analyst and Adviser for Lucas.
Dr. Nicolette Lawson is an Environmental Management Consultant, specialist in Environmental and personal change management, Environmental Performance Measurement, manufacturing systems. 12 years as environmental & technical manager in engineering industry.
Dr. Matthew Simon is Principal Lecturer in Design at Manchester Metropolitan University. Previously he was Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he taught engineering design, CADCAM, design management, design for environment, was leader of the Design academic group, and founded and led the Design for Environment research group.
Prof. Frank Worsford is a Senior Transport Research Fellow with the Transport Studies Group at the University of Westminster, where much of his research is done as a working partner and adviser with senior company management teams. He is currently acting as adviser on a number of multi-million logistics and distribution projects. He is a prolific author on transport and environmental issues, with over 200 publications including the Financial Times Management Report on The European Road Freight Industries - meeting the environmental challenge (1995), Freight Transport and the Environment (1996) and Intermodal Freight Villages in the New Millennium (forthcoming).
Company Speakers (to be arranged 12 weeks before seminar)
