eXoft, Innovative Soft-Rigid Exoskeleton for Smart Factory

Work related musculo-skeletal disorders represent a relevant percentage of occupational diseases in developed countries. Aside the laborers discomfort, they also reflect on companies with relevant economic effects. Nonetheless, the spread of exoskeletons for industrial applications is still limited. The reasons are to be sought on how they are perceived by workers: for many of them, their reduced mobility and not perfect adaptability to the kinematics of the human body make them more of a nui...

Ecodesign Strategies for Packaging: a Simplified Approach to Evaluate Environmental Benefits

The improvement of environmental product performance is an important driver for product development. It is also related to the optimization of product packaging solutions. This paper addresses the question related to packaging eco-design strategies. A simplified approach, based on the Life Cycle Assessment methodology and Material Flow Analysis, is proposed to quickly compare alternative design solutions in terms of environmental impacts. Quantifying impacts and identifying the most significa...

Enabling Circular Business Models through Design Methods and Tools

Despite the availability of multiple CBMs that merge economic sustainability with environmental considerations, each enterprise faces its own challenges in the transition from a linear to a circular economy. This work proposes an approach for organizations to determine which CBM aligns best with their practices, starting from available design tools, and being supported by the correlation matrix serves as allowing design tools to be integrated among core resources. With the support of the prop...

RAPIDO (teleRehabilitation for pAtient with ParkInson’s Disease at any mOment): a feasibility and acceptability analysis