Does “developed products” include products still in development process?
To know its environmental impact,
we carry out life cycle assessments on developed products to determine their environmental burden throughout the life cycle of the product.
What does this mean if a patent application is still in development, or a product is being made and ready to go into commercial mode as it is all or just the case that has an initial idea? Based solely on grammar it would seem that it would not include prototypes, but I get the feeling actual usage is not quite so simple.
If you are selling a product, ask the company whether a life cycle evaluation has been done or not. What does a corporation’s set of developed products look like? Regarding current development it is likely to mean “We carry out life cycle assessments as part of our product development process.” If “life cycle assessment” is a new activity at a company, it might instead mean, “We now carry out life cycle assessments as part of our product development process, and we are doing life cycle assessments on our existing products as we find the time or receive grants to fund the work.” “But if “life cycle assessment” is a new activity at a company, it might instead mean, “We carry out life cycle assessments as part of our product-development process, and we do life cycle assessments on our existing products as The
above assumes you are trying to interpret what some company has told you. If instead you are trying to describe the practice of a company, reasonable alternatives are to leave out the word developed if you mean the statement to apply to all products, or replace it with previously-developed if you mean to exclude products currently in development. (Although you should leave out developed) in either case; most people don’t view items under development as products, ie, a product (of a manufacturing company) typically is a previously-developed item now available for sale.)
What are the rules of grammar? How are developed products described, but a person cannot know what level of development he/she had in mind at that time.
