B: manufacture intensive
Improvement
Improvement objectives and strategies for basic type B
(manufacture intensive product)
Use less energy and material in the production process
Reducing energy consumption in production process
Optimizing type and amount of process materials
More efficient use of materials used in the production process
Avoiding waste in the production process
Purchase of external materials/components
Ecological procurement of external components
Use the product as intensively as possible
Optimizing product use
Optimizing product functionality
Improving maintenance
Use the product for a longer period of time
Increasing product durability
Improving reparability
Reuse components and/or the product
Improving disassembly
Reuse of product parts
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