Product-Service Systems (PSS) intend satisfy consumer needs by supplying a service instead of the purchase of the product. It has consequences in the final cost for the consumer and in the environmental impact produced in ...

The project theorists emphasize the importance of the instruments and tools applicable to it, so the so-called systemic ones such as Hubka and Eder in their "Theory of Technical Systems" specify the need of knowing the ...

According to French philosopher and sociologist Edgar Morin, so-called analog thinking is one of the types of thinking that provides the best creative results. Starting from the abstraction and analysis of existing elements, ...

Remanufacturing is one of the strategies of end of life (EOL strategies for End Of Life) having greater recovery and aims to restore the product to a “like new” condition, offering the same quality and guarantee given for ...

The perceptions and beliefs of footwear consumers might be essential in the development of strategies in the design of environmentally friendly products, as much for the company as for the elaboration of green trade and ...

Leonardo, in one of his Notebooks wrote "never will produce an invention more beautiful, or simpler, or more appropriate than those made by Nature, because in their inventions nothing is lacking, nothing is superfluous", ...

Leonardo da Vinci improved and fully completed the drawings and sketches of the designs of the Italian engineers who were contemporaries or who preceded him. Thus, he improved the machine designs of Paolo Santini and ...

When a product has fulfilled its expected wear-out life, there are two alternative strategies, replacement by a new generation product or reusing the same item by extending its use. Reusing the product, sometimes does not ...

One of the biggest challenges faced every day by organizations is to offer their products and services with the combination demanded by the eco-efficiency, that means satisfying human needs, enhancing quality of life, ...

A large number of the devices, machines and mechanisms designed by Leonardo Da Vinci, represented in their nearly 7000 preserved manuscript pages, only reached the level of conceptual design. Most of Leonardo's ...