Product Development as an essential planning phase

Product development has a decisive influence on the individual stages of the product life cycle. Defining dimensions and tolerances, for instance, largely predetermines the sequences of the manufacturing process already in the product development process. With that not only the used materials, the appearance and function of the product, eventual consumptions of energy or auxiliary materials during the usage, etc. as well as the manufacturing costs and the environmental impacts of a procuct are planned and determined.

Product development is an phase of substance, it is determining "doing the right thing at the right time". The ECODESIGN PILOT presents a device for that.