Design for Environment/Economy goes beyond RoHS and WEEE

RoHS and WEEE compliance have been high on nearly everyone's list of tactical issues, and the stress from legislative deadlines, late standards, supply-chain scrambles, and lack of codified procedures has burned out more than a few managers and budgets. 

By now, roughly half of electronics companies' executives realize that the environmental product-and-process requirements from governments and corporate customers around the world are just getting started, yet they are caught without a strategic approach to meet those requirements profitably. 

On September 25th, Pamela J. Gordon of Technology Forecasters Inc. and Harvey Stone of the Goodbye Chain Group will hold a half-day workshop, "Beyond RoHS and WEEE: Preparing for the Energy-using Products Directive and Design for Environment."  

The focus of this workshop is to introduce executives, managers, and engineers to the cost-reduction and revenue potential possibilities inherent in DfE practices.

As part of that financial introduction, attendees will learn strategic ways to design products, processes, and organizational structures to "jump over" the numerous interim environmental requirements and meet a wider scope of requirements earlier - before having to scramble to meet specific requirements coming in at an uncontrollable pace.  
 
"The benefits of strategic design-for-environment thinking are to the economy, the environment, and individual companies' profitability," says Gordon, author of Lean and Green:  Profit for Your Workplace and the Environment (http://www.bkconnection.com/).  "Much is touted about innovation, but at today's intersection of global economy and planetary sustainability, no innovation is more valuable than ‘design for environment'."
 
The workshop will be held at the SMTA International Conference in the Chicago area, September 25th:  http://www.smta.org/SMTAI/ T24 Beyond RoHS and WEEE/DfE. 1:30pm - 5:00pm.
 
Individual companies may bring the workshop into their facilities, by contacting Jennifer Read at +1-623-293-6985.

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