IEC TS 63428:2024
(Main)Guidance on material circulation considerations in environmentally conscious design
Guidance on material circulation considerations in environmentally conscious design
IEC TS 63428:2024 describes principles and provides guidance on how to embed material circularity aspects into the design and development of products.
This includes making efficient use of materials and closing material flows in design and production, extending the lifetime of products through increased durability and enabling parts and materials to be reused or recycled at end-of-life.
• Closing the material flows includes the use of recycled content and reused parts.
• Durability extensions include such measures as to improve reliability and maintenance, enable and facilitate repair, provide updates and upgrades, refurbish and reuse.
• Improvements in material recyclability, parts reuse, and remanufacturing are possible through measures such as design for disassembly, separability of materials, choice of materials, traceability of materials, and durability of parts.
This document builds on the jointly published (ISO and IEC) document, IEC 62430:2019 for requirements for environmentally conscious design (ECD) processes, and it supplements ECD by adding more specific guidance on the aspects of material circularity and material efficiency.
This document only deals with material circularity of products. Economic, social and energy aspects are excluded from the scope of this document.
This document is applicable to all electrotechnical products including goods and services.
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IEC TS 63428 ®
Edition 1.0 2024-08
TECHNICAL
SPECIFICATION
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Guidance on material circulation considerations in environmentally conscious
design
INTERNATIONAL
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ICS 13.020.01; 13.020.20 ISBN 978-2-8322-9553-3
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 3
INTRODUCTION . 5
1 Scope . 6
2 Normative references . 6
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms . 6
3.1 Terms and definitions . 6
3.2 Abbreviated terms . 10
4 Principles of material circularity . 10
4.1 Relationship between material circularity and environmentally conscious
design . 10
4.2 Material circularity principles . 11
4.3 Functional analysis considerations on material circularity . 12
5 Guidance for integrating material circularity aspects during design and
development . 13
5.1 General . 13
5.2 Value proposition creation phase . 15
5.3 Material selection phase . 16
5.4 Manufacture phase . 17
5.5 Distribution and installation phase . 17
5.6 Product use phase . 18
5.6.1 Framework for product durability . 18
5.6.2 Product reliability . 19
5.6.3 Ability of products to be dis- and re-assembled . 19
5.6.4 Ability of products to be maintained . 20
5.6.5 Product repairability . 20
5.6.6 Ability of products to be updated and upgraded . 21
5.6.7 Design products so that they can be reused or refurbished . 22
5.6.8 Other considerations . 22
5.7 End-of-life phase . 23
5.7.1 General . 23
5.7.2 Ability of products to be remanufactured and repurposed . 23
5.7.3 Ability of the parts to be reused . 24
5.7.4 Ability of products and parts to be recycled at end-of-life phase . 24
6 Trade-offs between different ecodesign measures . 25
6.1 General . 25
6.2 Examples of potential trade-offs . 25
6.3 Guidance on handling trade-offs . 26
Bibliography . 27
Figure 1 – Concept diagram of a circular economy . 7
Figure 2 – Material efficiency hierarchy . 11
Figure 3 – Functional, non-functional and limiting states of a product . 18
Table 1 – Material circularity considerations during ECD process . 14
INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION
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GUIDANCE ON MATERIAL CIRCULATION CONSIDERATIONS
IN ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS DESIGN
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INTRODUCTION
The circular economy can be described as a systemic approach to the design of processes,
products (including services) and business models, that tackles global challenges like climate
change, resource depletion, biodiversity loss, waste, and pollution. It is based on the principles
driven by design: eliminate waste and pollution, decreasing the use of resources, circulate
products and materials (at their highest value), and regenerate nature. As such it focuses on
managing resources more effectively and increasingly closing material flows. Changing from
the traditional linear economy to a circular economy represents a paradigm shift in the way that
society and natural capital are interrelated.
Different geographies have already introduced or are expected to introduce soon, the concept
of circular economy into their legal systems. Standards can assist the effective adoption of
legislation. It is important that the international community speed up addressing this topic, for
example, CEN and CENELEC are already doing this in Europe on the assessment of the
different aspects of material efficiency such as durability, ability to repair, reuse and upgrade,
recyclability and recoverability, proportion of reused components, proportion of recycled content,
and the ability of a product to be remanufactured.
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