Sustainable Smartphone Design For The Middle East
Contents
Overview of the Project .............................................................................................. 3
Purpose of the Project Charter ................................................................................... 3
Project Objective and Scope Objective ...................................................................... 3
Scope ........................................................................................................................ 4
Major Milestones ........................................................................................................ 5
Major Deliverables ..................................................................................................... 6
Assumptions .............................................................................................................. 7
Constraints................................................................................................................. 7
Business Need or Opportunity ................................................................................... 8
Preliminary Cost for the Project .................................................................................. 8
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Overview of the Project
The expansion of the communications infrastructure and advances in Web
services, applications, and user devices are accelerating the switchover
from conventional mobile feature, phones to smartphones in the middle
east. , this situation is bringing about a gradual change in middle east
people attitudes toward preferences and quality. This market environment
calls for smart- phone designs that customers find attractive, and to this
end, Xphone needs to develop designs that embody customer values on
the basis of an understanding of usage scenarios and cus- tomer
preferences. At the same time, Xphone needs to clarify the design
requirements so that the products produced reflect Xphone’s originality and
thereby make them distinguishable as an Xphone smartphone.
Purpose of the Project Charter
It provides a preliminary delineation of roles and responsibilities, outlines the
project objectives, and defines the authority of the project manager. It serves
as a reference of authority for the future of the project. The terms of reference
are usually part of the project charter
Project Objective and Scope Objective
Project Goals The goals of this project is to identify the minimum duration
required to finish the overall production of the new smartphone using new
production system in order to improve the smartphone’s features and
performance, as well as to practice a sustainable processing system to reduce
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the investment costs and overconsumption of raw materials. Practicing such
sustainable production system may enable our company to produce highly
improved smartphones that meets customer requirements and needs, with less
defects and losses. The reason for why this project was carried out is mainly
due to our competitor’s pressure on our company. Furthermore, our
smartphone would be focused on making it more sustainable compared to
others. So in order to meet our overall goal of producing a suitable sustainable
production system and finishing the project without any sensitive issues that
could limit progression of this project, we need to identify some vital steps in
the project that must be managed correctly. 2.2 Objectives The objectives of
this project are; 1) To produce smartphones with features that meets customer
needs and wants, as well as to make it more sustainable. 2) To increase the
number of users and productivity by implementing sustainable production
system.
Scope
Smartphone is a device, which is no longer a strange thing to majority of people
since it has gradually entered their everyday life. It is a mobile phone with
features like computers and has internet search capabilities. Moreover, it is a
source of entertainment, a communication tool, and a search engine. It has
been used widely and has helped us in many occasions and safe our lives. But
in reality, smartphones aren’t healthy as it may sounds as before. According to
Belkhir L. (2018), smartphones are damaging the environment and will have
the biggest carbon footprint in the tech industry by 2040, meaning that
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smartphones emit huge amount of carbon dioxide to the environment, from the
production chain. As result, this carbon dioxide will accumulate at the
atmosphere and cause greenhouse effect, which will then bring other
disastrous environmental effects such as global warming or pollutions. This can
be further supported by Greenpeace USA report (2017), which indicates that
smartphone production and disposal over the last 10 years is proving to have a
significant impact on our planet. Due to this very reason, many manufacturers
and researchers had started to implement sustainability approach into the
production of the smartphones. Sustainable smartphones that are able to be
recycled at its end life as well as release less toxic substances, has becomes a
trending topic among researchers and consumers. Furthermore, a sustainable
production system that can be used for multiple times is considerably important,
since it decrease the production as well as the environmental impacts. Hence,
this has led to the decision of choosing smartphone industry as the main topic
for this project/assignment.
Major Milestones
Task name Duration Start Finish
Market research 5 days
findings
Product design 10 days
Research evaluation 6 days
Design document 4 days
Design model 5 days
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Design concept 5 days
Design selection 5 days
Product development 10 days
Major Deliverables
To begin this project, 6 sets of deliverables is designed to guide this project
team in meeting the objectives and expectations of this project.
1) Market research: Provide as guide for us to get ideas on improving our
product as well as to get a clear picture of what customer wants and
current trends.
2) Design Document & Presentation: Design document which includes
items such as a detailed floor plan of our company. The arrangement of
the machines or processing sequence of the production area is crucial
in order to get a smooth production flow, to decrease defects and
increase productivity.
3) Prototypes: Prototype of the smartphone is produced to enable us to
study the suitability of the process for the design, after prototype testing.
Sometimes, the confirmed detailed designs won’t cope with the current
technology and available machines. Hence, prototype will provide us
some planning to further improve the design.
4) Operational Process: The operational processes of the production flow
to get high quality smartphones.
5) Quality Control/ Testing Quality: control will help us to identify and enable
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us to serve only quality product. This also will help us to reduce the cost
of manufacturing.
6) Marketing: Marketing to delivers promotional videos as part of product
launch, as well as to gain more customers and enable them to
understand our product better.
Assumptions
At the end of this project, we expect to get the duration required to complete
the overall project of the new sustainable smartphone with new features and
performance. We expect to gain more customers (increased marketability) by
making them interested with our product. Making a sustainable smartphones is
also trending among teenagers and adults nowadays, so we expect by
implementing sustainability we might be able to increase our productivity and
number of users.
Constraints
The smartphone must;
1) Contain environmentally preferable materials;
2) Be manufactured using environmentally and socially responsible practices;
3) Be recyclable at end-of-life;
4) Make use of recycled and recyclable packaging; 5) Have minimal
environmental impact;
6) Have minimal human health risks
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Business Need or Opportunity
Our smartphone would be focused on making it more sustainable compared to
others. So in order to meet our overall goal of producing a suitable sustainable
production system and finishing the project without any sensitive issues that
could limit progression of this project, we need to identify some vital steps in
the project that must be managed correctly.
Preliminary Cost for the Project
