Development of A Computer Aided Assessment Tool for Mobile Communication Products Considering Their Water Footprint and Function Performance

• Main Authors: WU, WEN-KUEI, 吳文魁
• Other Authors: Chang, Hsiang-Tang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7q6gzc

碩士 === 國立高雄第一科技大學 === 創新設計工程系工業設計碩士班 === 106 === In order to cope with the major crisis as the lack of global water resources issues in global water resources, the Water Footprint Network (WFN) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) have sequentially established the approach to water footprint calculation. Since then, the issue of water footprint became another highly-concerned environmental issue next to the issue of carbon footprint. On the other hand, The environmental impact of new developing prototype is always assessed by the environmental health and safety specialists after small-scale pilot production even launch into the market；and then the improving solution is found after the discussion with the designer. The above-mentioned process indeed needs to be speeded up from business perspective. Therefore, in order to avoid the water of time and costs, this research tried to develop an instant green design and computer aided evaluation tool “Water Footprint Evaluator (WFE)” for the solution by integrating the water footprint and function performance of product. The said tool was constructed on the business software “SolidWorks®” as the platform and applied the application programming interface (API) technique. Through the said tool, expectantly the designer can easily make an instant assessment of water footprint and function performance of their new product in the early stage of development. The assessment scope of WFE involves material production, component production, post production / finishing, and assembly. The said tool was successfully simulated and demonstrated by the two examples, a camera module and a thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) of a mobile communication device.