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1.9 Summary

21 You are responsible for the impact of your products on others. humility in the face of nature. Treat nature as a model and mentor, not as an inconvenience to be evaded or controlled.

8. Seek constant improvement by the sharing of knowledge.

Encourage di- rect and open communication between colleagues, patrons, manufacturers, and users to link long-term sustainable considerations with ethical responsi- bility, and reestablish the integral relationship between natural processes and human activity.

9. Respect relationships between spirit and matter.

Consider all aspects of human settlement including community, dwelling, industry, and trade in terms of existing and evolving connections between spiritual and material consciousness. We will work to respect these principles in the chapters that follow. We intro- duced the concept of “lean” earlier in this chapter as the effort to reduce waste Principle 5. We will revisit this and the other principles throughout the book. In Chap. 11, we will specifically revisit DFS as part of Design for the Environ- ment. In Chap. 12, we focus on product retirement. Many products are retired to landfills, but in keeping with the first three principles, and focusing on the fifth principle, it is best to design products that can be reused and recycled. 1.9 SUMMARY The design process is the organization and management of people and the infor- mation they develop in the evolution of a product. ■ The success of the design process can be measured in the cost of the design effort, the cost of the final product, the quality of the final product, and the time needed to develop the product. ■ Cost is committed early in the design process, so it is important to pay par- ticular attention to early phases. ■ The process described in this book integrates all the stakeholders from the beginning of the design process and emphasizes both the design of the product and concern for all processes—the design process, the manufacturing process, the assembly process, and the distribution process. ■ All products have a life cycle beginning with establishing a need and ending with retirement. Although this book is primarily concerned with plan- ning for the design process, engineering requirements development, concep- tual design, and product design phases, attention to all the other phases is important. PLM systems are designed to support life-cycle information and communication.