Towards self-disassembling products: Design solutions for economically feasible large-scale disassembly

Innovation in Life Cycle Engineering and Sustainable Development

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 87-110

  Duflou, J R ^a   Willems, B ^a   Dewulf, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Active disassembly; Design for disassembly; Disassembly embedded design; Self disassembling products

Indexed keywords

ECODESIGN; EFFICIENCY; LIFE CYCLE; LOCKS (FASTENERS);

ACTIVE DISASSEMBLY; DESIGN SOLUTIONS; DISASSEMBLY OPERATIONS; ECONOMIC MODELS; EMBEDDED DESIGNS; PRODUCT STREAMS; SELF-DISASSEMBLING PRODUCTS; STATE OF THE ART;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 78649605002     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4617-0_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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