Manufacturing products with end-of-life considerations: an economic assessment to the routes of revenue generation from mature products

Low, Ming Kaan; Williams, David J.; Dixon, C.

doi:10.1109/3476.670022

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“…This case is most compelling when end of life is premature and not a fundamental quality failure, as in the case of personal electronics. Cellular telephones, personal digital assistants, and laptop computers are often retired as styles change or technology advances (35); however, the physical components are still fully functional and therefore valuable. Designing products with components that can be recovered would significantly reduce end-of-life burdens and manufacture of duplicate components in the next-product generation.…”

Section: Principle 7: Durability Rather Than Immortalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Peer Reviewed: Design Through the 12 Principles of Green Engineering

Anastas

Zimmerman²

2003

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Section: Principle 7: Durability Rather Than Immortalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Peer Reviewed: Design Through the 12 Principles of Green Engineering

Anastas

Zimmerman²

2003

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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“…Meanwhile, Low, Williams and Dixon (1998), present the improved models of the economic analysis for manufacturing products with EOL consideration. They consider several options at the end of the first life of a product: resale, remanufacture, upgrade, recycling and scrap.…”

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Journal of Sustainable Development, Vol. 3, No. 1. March 2010

JSD¹

2010

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“…EOL strategies that involve disassembly have been modeled many different ways. Approaches include, "scorecards" [4]; life cycle assessment (LCA) [5]; cost-benefit analysis [6]; activity-based costing (ABC) [7]; decision trees [8]; and high-level financial models [9]. An excellent review of disassembly analysis methods appears in [4].…”

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A model for optimizing the assembly and disassembly of electronic systems

Sandborn

Murphy²

1999

IEEE Trans. Electron. Packag. Manufact.

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This paper presents a methodology that incorporates simultaneous consideration of economic and environmental merit during the virtual prototyping phase of electronic product design. A model that allows optimization of a product life cycle, which includes primary assembly, disassembly, and secondary assembly using a mix of new and salvaged components, is described. Optimizing this particular life cycle scenario is important for products that are leased to customers or subject to product take-back laws. Monte Carlo simulation is used to account for uncertainty in the data, and demonstrates that high-level design and process decisions may be made with a few basic metrics and without highly specific data sets for every material and component used in a product. A web-based software tool has been developed that implements this methodology. Index Terms-Design-for-environment, design-to-cost, disassembly, electronics product take-back, end of life, recycling, virtual prototyping. NOMENCLATURE Quantities associated with specific process steps and the entire unit assembly: Buy back fraction Fraction of the primary assembly cost paid to reacquire primary assemblies for recovery (per assembly). Cost Cost of performing a single assembly process step (per unit assembly). Cost Allocated buy back cost (per assembly). Cost Cumulative cost of all preceding assembly and test steps (per unit assembly). Cost Cost of manufacturing the primary assembly (per unit assembly). Cost Cost of performing a single test step (per unit assembly). Fraction returned Fraction of the primary unit assemblies returned for recovery that are salvageable.

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Manufacturing products with end-of-life considerations: an economic assessment to the routes of revenue generation from mature products

Cited by 12 publications

References 4 publications

Peer Reviewed: Design Through the 12 Principles of Green Engineering

Peer Reviewed: Design Through the 12 Principles of Green Engineering

Journal of Sustainable Development, Vol. 3, No. 1. March 2010

A model for optimizing the assembly and disassembly of electronic systems

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