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Item Use of dfe methodologies and tools - Major barriers and challenges(ICED, 2007) Kota, SrinivasProducts make substantial impact on environment. Product to waste mass generated through out the product lifecycle can be as high as 1:20. Design for Environment (DfE) is an approach to design where all the environmental impacts of a product are considered over the entire life cycle of a product. Early stages of product development are the key for this because if we know the environmental impacts of potential designs while designing, we can make changes to these designs then and there so as to reduce their environmental impacts [1, 2]. However, unlike cost and performance, use of environmental criteria and DfE is far from part of mainstream designing [3]. Most DfE tools are conceptual in nature, and there is very little adoption of these in industry. Methods like [4] are useful for specific phases of the lifecycle of a product. However, during product development there is a need to consider the whole lifecycle rather than a single phase of the productItem Sustainable Supply Chain in Product Development(Springer, 2014-12) Kota, SrinivasThere exists an urgency for organizations all over the world to consider sustainable supply chain strategy in product development. Every firm needs to provide a safe working environment and reduce its ecological footprint as well as ensure returns to its investors. This calls for cross-functional integration, better decision making and performance improvement. Every stakeholder in the supply chain is responsible to ensure its’ sustainability. Several incentives can be found in adopting a sustainable supply chain management strategy. Sustainable supply chain management pushes the system towards forethought, exploration and data analysis in business so as to measure up to the expectation of customers and flourish in the long run. The focus of this study has been on why a company requires sustainable supply chain management and how it would benefit by implementing a sustainable supply chain management strategy. The core aspect was to analyze the advantages of sustainability in a supply chain and how everybody would be motivated to work towards it. Main outcome from the research is that stakeholders in different domains are more or less similar but the challenges and motivations of stakeholders are different in different domains. It is required to consider the domain specific characteristics for inclusion of sustainable supply chain in product development. A conceptual strategy is proposed to include sustainable supply chain in product development.Item Sustainability Definitions — An Analysis(Springer, 2017-02) Kota, SrinivasEvery product or system that we consume or use affects our lives and the environment during its production, consumption and disposal. Emissions and wastes are generated which contaminate soil, water and air, the key life support systems on earth. If these support systems will stop functioning in their natural form, then survival and wellbeing of various living things will be endangered. Thus a product or a system should be conceived based on the principles of sustainability. There exist number of definitions on sustainability making it difficult to choose one for application. So in this paper we aim to discuss the definitions of sustainability from different contexts i.e., global and local, temporal and spatial, measurable and non-measurable, and clear and ambiguous. From the analysis we found most of the definitions are global, non-measurable and ambiguous. We need measurable and clear definitions of sustainability to be used in various situations.