%0 Journal Article %A Anastasia Katsamaki and Nikolaos Bilalis and Vassilis Dedoussis %D 2011 %J International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 59, 2011 %T Lean Thinking Process in the Determination of Design Suggestions to Optimize Treatment of WEEE %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/15510 %V 59 %X This work proposes a set of actions to assist redesign procedure in existing products of Electric and Electronic Equipment (EEE). The aim is to improve their environmental behavior after their withdrawal in the End-of-Life (EOL) phase. In the beginning data collection takes place. Then follows selection and implementation of the optimal EOL Treatment Strategy (EOL_TS) and its results- evaluation concerning the environment. In parallel, product design characteristics that can be altered are selected based on their significance for the environment in the EOL stage. All results from the previous stages are combined and possible redesign actions are formulated for further examination and afterwards configuration in the design stage. The applied method to perform these tasks is Lean Thinking (LT). At the end, results concerning the application of the proposed method on a distribution transformer are presented. %P 1683 - 1689