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