Improving Computer Supported Environmental Friendly Product Development by Analysis of Data

In this paper some proposals for a preventive environment protection, already in the product development process by analysing global environment aspects, market situation, strategy, philosophy and culture of the manufacturing companies as well as their customer behavior, are presented. Results of the research German group SFB 392 are included into the proposals. An environmental friendly product development system is also presented in the paper including a module for supporting such analysis; it uses data mining and augmented fuzzy methods. The environment is an extension of a product development environment worked up by the Institut Arbeit und Technik, Gelsenkirchen, Germany, in cooperation with the University of Craiova and the Technical University “Gh. Asachi" Iasi, Romania.