Towards an integration of environmental criteria in the OEM/subcontractors relationship

Fabien Michelin (1) , Flore Vallet (1) , Benoît Eynard (1) , Tatiana Reyes (2) , Viet-Long Duong (3)

1 Roberval - Roberval
2 CREIDD - Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes Interdisciplinaires sur le Développement Durable
3 Pôle Performance Industrielle Durable

Faced with the rise of the sustainable development challenge, industry has integrated this dimension in the product design through the concept of eco-design. Many eco-design tools and methods have been developed during the last decade, leading to a fragmentation of eco-design approaches in the industry. One of the main identified weaknesses is the methodological discontinuity between different members of industrial value chain. OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers), which externalized a non-negligible part of their production, settle mainly quantitative and costly approaches. Because of a lack of expertise and financial resources, subcontractors focus on qualitative and simplified approaches. This research work aims at the development of a method to foster interaction between the eco-design approaches of the different levels of the industrial value chain.

Mots clés: OEM; subcontractor; Eco; design; LCA; value chain; SME

Domaines: Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]

Fabien Michelin, Flore Vallet, Benoît Eynard, Tatiana Reyes, Viet-Long Duong. Towards an integration of environmental criteria in the OEM/subcontractors relationship. QUALITA2013, Mar 2013, Compiègne, France. ⟨hal-00823116⟩