Evaluation of environmentally conscious product designs

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

12-1-1998

Abstract

Design-For-Retirement is a concept that allows one to design a product such that its retirement time and post-life treatment are optimized, i.e., its environmental impact is minimized and financial gain is maximized. Retired products face four primary multi-lifecycle engineering treatments: 1) to recondition for reuse in the next lifecycle; 2) to convert into a material form for recycling back into new parts, 3) to disassemble into several components for further assessment, and 4) to landfill. Each option has a different environmental cost-benefit ratio. This paper proposes several matrices to represent the connection information, interference directions among nodes, and disassembly complexity. It presents a method to evaluate a design in terms of cost and apply it to two personal computer designs.

Identifier

0032313318 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics

ISSN

08843627

First Page

4057

Last Page

4062

Volume

4

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