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Rochester New York Section

of the

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

and the

University of Rochester

Student Chapter

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presented the annual

Student's Night

Wednesday, February 4, 1998

on the U of R Campus

Dr. John Elter - Vice President, Xerox Corporation and a U of R Alumnus

on

Re Engineering at Xerox

The new age of Digital Document Technology is defining the Office of the Future. Xerox is a leader in that technology, and intends to stay in the lead. In doing so, we need to meet our customers' needs while conserving resources and protecting the environment. Xerox's contribution to this global challenge is it's "Design for the Environment" program. This initiative is the cornerstone to enable products to be developed and manufactured that are environmentally friendly.

Specifically, the recently announced Xerox Document Centre DC265 copier, developed under the code name Lakes, was born out of the need for a product that would fit the Office of the Future and be environmentally responsible. A vision for Lakes was created by integrating anticipated future requirements with customers' needs and with what Xerox thought was the "Right Thing To Do". The lakes program modified the traditional Product Delivery Process (PDP) to ensure that the "Design for the Environment" (DFE) policy was deployed.

Dr. John Elter was the leader behind the Lakes program.

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