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Due to concerns about environmental protection, product life cycle management for end-of-life has received increasing attention in many industrial sectors. To support these functions, crucial issues have been studied to realize a product recovery management system. Until the present time most research has been concerned with decision making under the assumption that all the relevant and accurate information about a product is available by some means. However, these pieces of research ended in technological attempts because of the development complexity of implementation using ubiquitous computing devices such as identification chips and embedded systems to get data from products. An efficient development method is necessary in order to overcome this limitation. In this paper we overview a generic architecture based on ubiquitous computing technology. This is followed by how to develop such an innovative system by proposing a systematic approach called ubiquitous information engineering. To show the effectiveness of the architecture and approach a prototype for remanufacturing an industrial product has been developed. Through development of the proposed approach enough functions can be derived to collect information from a product. The study shows that major factors influencing development complexity are found and that information standards support network development in end-of-life activities.
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Abbreviations
- D2U:
-
Device-to-UPLI
- DISS:
-
Disassembly & Inspection Support System
- ECU:
-
Engine Control Unit
- IDEF:
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Integration Definition for Function Modeling
- IEEE:
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- PRMS:
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Product Recovery Management System
- RFID:
-
Radio Frequency IDentification
- RTLS:
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Real Time Locating System
- UbiDMR:
-
A new paradigm of Design, Manufacturing, and Recycling via Ubiquitous computing
- UPLI:
-
Ubiquitous Product Lifecycle Information highway
- WLAN:
-
Wireless Local Area Network
- WSN:
-
Wireless Sensor Network
- XML:
-
eXtensible Markup Language
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Um, J., Suh, SH. Design method for developing a product recovery management system based on life cycle information. Int. J. of Precis. Eng. and Manuf.-Green Tech. 2, 173–187 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40684-015-0022-y
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