... stemming from a vehicle’s EOL processing phase and balance them against the vehicle’s functional requirements and production and use-phase energies. The substitution with a correction factor allocation method is used to model the contribution of recycling to the EOL phase’s energy. The methodology...

... to the e-waste recovery. The potential role of product design in overcoming those obstacles is discussed with emphasis on design for upgrade, repurpose, and commonality. 22 11 2010 31 03 2011 27 09 2011 27 09 2011 product design recycling waste handling e-waste end...

... can then be used to inform subsequent design cycles without repeating the process. Although in environmentally conscious design, reverse engineering is commonly applied to studies of disassembly and recyclability, the methodology and case study herein show how reverse engineering can be applied...

... recycling reliability remaining life assessment Product stewardship involves everyone—manufacturers, retailers, users, and disposers—taking responsibility for minimizing environmental impacts throughout the lifespan of the product. Product stewardship includes finding effective ways to recapture...

..., including reuse, repair, refurbishment, and recycling, enable companies to comply with legislation while also gaining some economic advantage. At comparatively little cost, companies can utilize many of the resources remaining in used products. As a result, more companies have been choosing product recovery...

... 2009 electrical products electronic equipment manufacture product development recycling systems engineering product development design theory and methodology multiobjective optimization systems engineering fasteners Manufacturing companies are increasingly being held...

...Mohammed Shalaby; Kazuhiro Saitou Driven by the moral sense of obligation, legislative and social pressures, manufacturers now consider effective part reuse and material recycling at the end of product life at the design stage. It is a key consideration to use joints that can disengage with minimum...

... in units of time (effective age) by aligning with that of a product that has never been disassembled. We demonstrate the approach using a personal computer as example. 30 11 2007 10 11 2008 20 02 2009 maximum entropy methods recycling reliability Recent interest in reuse...

...Mohammed Shalaby; Kazuhiro Saitou Recent legislative and social pressures have driven manufacturers to consider effective part reuse and material recycling at the end of product life at the design stage. One of the key considerations is to design and use joints that can disengage with minimum labor...

... for the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Initiative ,” Proceedings of the 17th Symposium for Computer Applications in Radiology, SCAR 2000 , pp. 180 – 182 . Nakamura , S. , and Kondo , Y. , 2004 , “ Recycling and Extended Life of Electric Home Appliances: Hybrid Analysis Based on the Waste...

... . Manuscript received Mar. 1999; revised Mar. 2000. Associate Technical Editor: L.-W. Tsai. 01 Mar 1999 01 Mar 2000 manufacturing processes reliability theory industries environmental factors recycling This research is in the area of environmentally conscious product design...