Tinkering is good for business and the environment
Appliances beware. Tellabs engineers are on the loose, and they're all about energy efficiency.
Engineers like to take things apart. Many can tell you about household appliances from their youth that suffered the consequences. Tellabs engineers use that curiosity every day—especially during workshops that help them design with the environment in mind.
Service providers can spend as much as 80% of their energy costs on network equipment. We're committed to helping them reduce expenses.
So, Tellabs has held workshops since 2007 dedicated to designing more environmentally friendly, energy-efficient products. Last week, our engineers participated in Tellabs eighth Design for Environment (DfE) workshop. We plan to hold three more around the world this year.
At the workshop, we spent an entire afternoon taking stuff apart. We tinkered with projectors, printers and Tellabs products and discussed how we could design them more efficiently. Then, we brainstormed to design new products with DfE concepts in mind. 
It was great to see the teams get really creative. They found ways to reduce parts, increase recycled materials and use solar energy—and even included shipping requirements, marketing plans and cost analyses.
Because as every wise engineer knows, the best way to make something better is to take it apart.
What helps you think about design more creatively?
