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INTEGRATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CRITERIA IN THE CO-DESIGN PROCESS: CASE STUDY OF THE CLIENT/SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIP IN THE FRENCH MECHANICAL INDUSTRY
Michelin, F.; Vallet, F.; Reyes, T.; Eynard, B.; Duong, V.L.
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2014
Editor:
Marjanovic Dorian, Storga Mario, Pavkovic Neven, Bojcetic Nenad
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DESIGN
Section:
DESIGN ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT
Page(s):
1591-1600
Abstract:
This paper investigates how the environment is taken in account in the client/supplier relationship. This issue is particularly important given the growing influence of suppliers’ design choices on the environmental performance of the client’s product. An empirical study has been performed with twenty companies of the French mechanical industry from SMEs to large multinational companies. The survey highlights the weakness of environmental information exchanges between the different actors, yet comitted in the same design process at different levels.
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