Determining relationships between modularity and cost in product retirement

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2001, Pages 49-61

  Zhang, Y ^a   Gershenson, J K ^b   Allamneni, S ^a  

^a Utah State University   (United States)

^b Michigan Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY; COSTS; FLASHLIGHTS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; RECYCLING; REUSABILITY; WASTE DISPOSAL; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; LIFE CYCLE;

PRODUCT MODULARITY; PRODUCT RETIREMENT; REMANUFACTURING;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY DESIGNS; INDEPENDENT CLUSTERS; INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS; MODULAR ARCHITECTURES; MODULAR PRODUCT DESIGN; MODULAR-DESIGN METHOD; NUMBER OF COMPONENTS; PRODUCT MODULARITY;

EID: 0242500404     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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