Environmental Simulation System for Environmentally Conscious Product Design

Product designers are required to harmonize the technological, economical, social, and environmental domain of the product. In the early stage of product design, in order to create and verify the new idea of the product, it is necessary for product designer to easily and quickly get an overview and insight into the influences of designed product in the environment. We propose the concept and implementation method of a new environmental simulation system based on interaction of the subjects in the environment. The env. sim. system consists of 7 systems (subject, object, energy, human resource, economic, information, and nature system). The changed subject changes the flow of the object, energy, human resource, money, information, and natural object.