Lifetime management

• Reliability for sustainability:simultaneous consideration of environmental and reliability issues from component and system level to meta-structures and clouds

• Automotive electronics:balancing reliability, efficiency, sustainability and costs

• LED lighting: thermal management, material efficiency and lifetime

Energy efficiency

• Reliable and sustainable energy supply: smart grids, power train and conversion

• Innovative energy sources:energy harvesting and storage systems

• Power management on system level: achieving load adaptivity

Material efficiency

• Product design solutions for resource efficiency: decreasing material intensity, toxicity and criticality

• Closing the material loops:remanufacturing, refurbishment, reuse, collection and recycling

Software and data

• From big data to smart data:optimal use of IT resources, e.g. scalable green data centers, end-to-end network efficiency, local data aggregation

• Software-hardware interaction:defining and programming green software

• Cyber-physical systems: how to guide digitalization towards sustainability?

Technologies for the future

• Modular configuration and customized products: matching functionality and user needs

• Environmental effects of latest technology trends

Innovative value creation

• Extended value chain through remanufacturing, maintenance, repair and reuse

• Product ownership 2.0: leasing, pay-per-use, shared use

• Embedding sustainable manufacturing in global value creation: incentives for company responsibility and sustainable business models

Sustainability management

• Identifying resource value in the urban mine: localization in the products, analytics and assessments

• Successful and practical environmental assessments:improving base data and user friendliness

• Data management along the supply chain: cooperation for environmental footprints and material declarations

Compliance and certification

• Evolution of regulation and standards: RoHS, REACh, WEEE, ErP, voluntary agreements, labelling, green procurement, Epeat & IEEE 1680 development

• Certifying the supply chain:conflict materials, Dodd-Frank Act implementation, upstream working conditions