Spaghetti blues

摘要

@@One of the great things about EcoDesign is that it often looks at old problems from a new perspective. There are no holy cows and if one is crossing your path it is often butchered in the name of ‘green’. On the contrary, in traditional companies making high-tech products, there are a lot of holy cows ranging from tradition (this is the way we design products) and lack of flexibility in the supply chain (these are our key suppliers) to fragmentation into all kinds of specialist jobs - few people have an integral view on product architecture and performance. The best demonstration of how departments inside companies work together is the organization of cable and wiring (C&W) in products. Mechanical people will say C&W is electrical, therefore not for us. Electrical people will say we are electronic rather than electrical and as a result they do not feel responsible either. If there is not good communication between the two groups, nobody will feel responsible for C&W in the end. The result is obvious: excessive material use and more dissipation of energy.