SCABEE TCS Modular Fireplace (2026)
Nordic Heat Solutions, a Scandinavian manufacturer of high-efficiency wood-burning fireplaces, is exploring how modular design can support sustainable building renovation. Facing tightening EU requirements on energy efficiency and emissions, the company is developing a modular fireplace concept for retrofitting open fireplaces and outdated built-in solutions.
Students join the project team working on a pilot product. They analyse its lifecycle, identify applicable R-strategies and map environmental impact hotspots, then develop a modularisation concept with standardised interfaces that enable repair, upgrades and end-of-life recovery, weighing sustainability against cost, performance and regulatory compliance.
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SCABEE TCS Mapping the Storm (2026)
As climate change intensifies, European municipalities face growing pressure to build data-driven strategies for climate resilience. Digital dashboards can make climate information accessible and actionable for emergency managers, urban planners, schools and citizens alike, but creating one takes more than technical expertise. It requires a structured approach to stakeholder assessment, participatory design and use case definition.
This teaching case places students in the role of consultants advising Waldbach, a fictional Central European city, on a Climate Resilience Dashboard. Applying the Quadruple Helix framework, they map a complex public-private stakeholder ecosystem, identify user needs, define use cases and propose a modular dashboard architecture.
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SCABEE TCS From Manual Tasks to Value-Added Roles (2026)
NEM (Nazaire ElectroMechanical), a French mid-sized company, decided to robotise its production process and adopt advanced digital technologies, including predictive artificial intelligence, to improve its environmental performance and strengthen its long-term competitive position. Despite these goals, the project known as NEMPA triggers significant internal tensions.
This teaching case explores those tensions through interview analysis. Production workers fear for their job security and the obsolescence of their skills, engineers resist the added workload and the ethical responsibility of deploying AI systems, and opposition also forms at collective level. Students examine how digital transformation and sustainability ambitions intersect with human and social concerns in the workplace.
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SCABEE TCS Design for Adaptability (2025)
In this teaching case, students are asked to redesign a children’s table and chair so the product lasts longer and adapts as the child grows. The task goes beyond aesthetics and function: the product should remain usable, adjustable and appealing across different stages of childhood while reducing its environmental footprint.
There is no single correct solution. Working with circular design principles such as slowing resource loops and designing for longevity, students explore modularity, material choices and transformation mechanisms, then weigh trade-offs between environmental impact, usability, manufacturability and business value.
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SCABEE TCS Smart Scheduling (2025)
Energy efficiency is a key challenge for modern manufacturing, yet upgrading machinery is capital-intensive and slow. Production planning offers an alternative lever: the way orders are sequenced affects energy use even when technology and output volume stay the same.
This teaching case examines scheduling in a plant producing acrylic bathtubs by thermoforming. The oven is both the most energy-hungry resource and the system bottleneck. Students compare scheduling scenarios to see how sequencing changes energy consumption and on-time delivery, and learn to weigh savings against customer deadlines.
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SCABEE TCS From Idea to Circular Impact (2025)
Sustainability has become a business imperative, driven by the climate crisis, resource depletion and regulations such as the European Green Deal and the CSRD. Decisions taken during ideation and concept creation shape environmental outcomes across a product’s entire life cycle.
This teaching case puts students in the role of sustainability-conscious product designers. Using the Double Diamond Model, Design Thinking, the 10R Framework and Circular Economy principles, they generate sustainable concepts and embed sustainability from the ground up rather than settling for incremental improvements.
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SCABEE TCS Sustainable Promotion Mix (2025)
Verti’Call is a French smartphone manufacturer that has been designing devices near Lyon for the past eight years. Caught between Apple and Samsung, the company chose differentiation over scale and launched the EcoPhone 2, positioned as a sustainable and eco-friendly alternative under the slogan “The recycled and recyclable choice”.
This case study examines the brand’s positioning, its target audience of environmentally aware urban professionals aged 23 to 45, and its competition with Fairphone, a Dutch rival with a near-identical strategy.
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SCABEE TCS It is Just Air? Think Again (2025)
This case study focuses on junior engineers designing a pneumatic system for an automated production workstation operating in continuous three-shift mode. Students compare a standard design with an energy-optimized alternative, analysing technical performance, compressed air consumption, and operating costs.
The project highlights how engineering design choices influence energy efficiency, operating expenses, investment costs, and environmental responsibility in real industrial settings.
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SCABEE TCS Design for Take Back (2025)
This project examines how CARE, a Danish manufacturer of ergonomic chairs for healthcare and disability use, can enhance sustainability through a product take-back program. Acting as a newly formed sustainability project team, students analyse the current logistics setup, assess environmental impacts through a CO₂-focused life cycle assessment, and develop a generic framework for circular take-back systems.
The case highlights how integrating circular economy principles into product logistics can support environmental sustainability while maintaining technical feasibility, economic viability, and product quality.
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SCABEE TCS Return on CO2 (2025)
This Teaching Case Study explores how small industrial component suppliers can drive environmental sustainability by adopting CO₂- and energy-reducing innovations within complex manufacturing value chains. The case focuses on a supplier serving the PET bottling industry and examines how decision-making processes can delay or accelerate the adoption of sustainable technologies.
By linking technical innovation with corporate purchasing and selling decisions, the study highlights how companies can evaluate lifecycle costs, energy savings, and environmental impacts to achieve both economic and sustainability goals.
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SCABEE TCS Ictyos (2025)
Ictyos transforms fish skins from the food industry into eco-friendly “sea leather,” combining French tannery know-how with sustainability. The skins are dyed and finished as exotic leather, sold mainly to B2B customers for fashion goods such as bags, shoes, and belts.
As a newcomer to the upcycling luxury market, Ictyos faces two challenges:
- Expanding applications beyond traditional fashion accessories and reaching new customer segments.
- Promoting its products to both businesses and consumers, who may associate fish leather with negative perceptions.
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SCABEE TCS Ananké (2024)
Students are Junior Project Managers at Ananké SAS, an engineering firm in Belfort, France, specializing in heat recovery. Their client, Alsace Burnhaupt Metallurgie SARL, a metal parts producer for the automotive industry, seeks to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions to meet EU and national regulations.
Two potential solutions are:
- Reinjecting preheated air into the oven to lower gas consumption.
- Using recovered heat to warm the shopfloor in winter.
Students must analyze these options, recommend the best solution, and prepare for a commercial proposal. Optionally, they may develop a project plan for the chosen solution.
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SCABEE TCS AlluVance Solutions GmbH (2024)
In this Teaching Case Study, students must think about replacing aluminium profiles of a work bench production company to lower the product’s CO2 emissions.
They discover the impact of transport, recycled aluminium and suggest a possible way.
They also learn that recycled aluminium is also a rare material as the overall increase in aluminium needs is much higher then the recycled volumes, and thus it is not (easily) possible to switch, and that thinking about new, more sustainable materials might be the better way.
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SCABEE TCS Sun4Prod (2024)
Solar energy is a renewable energy that is abundantly available at some times of the day and the year in Europe. This leads to the difficulty of always having sufficient energy on site.
Students analyse a given plant situation and develop a system of solar panels and energy storage to fit with the aim of a company to become (more or less) independent from an external energy.
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SCABEE TCS Design for Material Change (2024)
In this TCS, students are working on an aluminium light fixture.
The aim is to conduct a life-cycle-analysis and to think about reducing the carbon footprint of the product through changed design and/or materials.
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