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Product ecodesign checklist
Considering the whole of a product's lifecycle to ensure goods and services become more sustainable
Ecodesign: compliance and standards
Understand the legal responsibilities and standards that relate to the ecodesign of products, and how to ensure compliance with ecodesign directives
Ecodesign for end of product life
How to design products so that you or your customers can reuse or dispose of them in an environmentally friendly and cost-effective way
Evaluate your ecodesign products
How to use feedback from production and sales departments to ensure the manufacture of profitable ecodesign products
What is ecodesign?
An overview of ecodesign and the key environmental considerations when developing products using ecodesign principles
Ecodesign: process and strategies
How to plan ecodesign for your products and introduce ecodesign activities within your business’ existing design process
Identify ecodesign priorities
Assess your priorities when developing new or revised products that will use ecodesign
Research your products for ecodesign
How to carry out research and life cycle assessment to ensure that new or revised products follow ecodesign principles
Stock control administration
An administrator or stock controllers' duties, typical paperwork and auditing or checking stock
How much stock should you keep?
Advantages and disadvantages of keeping either plenty of stock or very little
Using RFID for inventory control, stock security and quality management
RFID inventory management provides a highly versatile way to control and track stock
Stock security
Set up a security policy, prevent employee theft and ensure you comply with health and safety requirements
Stock control systems - keeping track using computer software
Sales order processing, automatic stock monitoring and how to choose the right stock control system
Types of stock
The four main types of stock - raw materials and components, work in progress, finished goods and consumables
Control the quality of your stock
Stock and batch tracking, checking goods and the British Standards Institute scheme for quality management
Stock control methods
How to control stock through reviews, minimum levels, using batch control and first in first out systems
Stock control systems - keeping track manually
Using inventory listing, stock codes, stock books and a simple re-order system to manage your stock
Trade marks and geographical indications
Guidance for businesses and organisations on the relationship between trade marks and geographical indications (GIs)
How you can use product design
How careful design of your products can increase your profits and reduce your production costs
Placing manufactured products on the market in Great Britain
What you need to do to comply with regulations on manufactured products you place on the market in Great Britain.