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A Design for Disassembly Approach to Analyze and Manage End-of-Life Options for Industrial Products in the Early Design Phase

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Abstract

In modern society there has been an increase in consumption and discard of goods and products due to the high growth of the world population. Moreover, in the manufacturing field rapid technology cycles quickly render products obsolete and as a consequence consumers dispose of products more intensively. Product disassembly is becoming an important phase of the product lifecycle to consider from the environmental and economic point of view. It occurs to minimize the maintenance time and describe the End-of-Life (EoL) strategies, for example component reuse/recycling. These EoL closed-loop scenarios should be considered during the early phases of design process when decisions influence product architecture and in the product structure. In this context, the purpose of this chapter is to describe an approach to support the designer’s evaluation of disassemblability by using the 3D CAD model structure and suitable key indices related to product features and environmental costs. A software system allows the product model to be analyzed and evaluates the product disassemblability degree. Experimental case studies facilitate the approach demonstration and highlights product environmental performance due to the application of the proposed approach.

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Abbreviations

CAD:

Computer aided design

DB:

Database

DFD:

Design for disassembly

DFE:

Design for environment

DFx:

Design for x

DFPR:

Design for product retirement

DFR:

Design for recycling/reusing/remanufacturing

EOL:

End of life

EU:

European Union

ICT:

Information and communication technology

LCA:

Life cycle assessment

ND:

New design

OD:

Original design

PCB:

Print circuit board

PLM:

Product lifecycle management

PP:

Polypropylene

SLCA:

Simplified life cycle assessment

US:

United States

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Favi, C., Germani, M. (2014). A Design for Disassembly Approach to Analyze and Manage End-of-Life Options for Industrial Products in the Early Design Phase. In: Henriques, E., Pecas, P., Silva, A. (eds) Technology and Manufacturing Process Selection. Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5544-7_15

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