Exhausting lifetime by multitiered reuse with forced circulation in closed-loop manufacturing

International Journal of Sustainable Manufacturing

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 450-462

  Takata, Shozo ^a   Tsubouchi, Kensuke ^b   Yoshijima, Shiro ^c  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c Yasui and Co   (Japan)

Author keywords

Closed loop manufacturing; Copy machine; Forced circulation; Life cycle assessment; Life cycle design; Life cycle simulation; Multitiered reuse; Photoconductor drum unit

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIFE; MANUFACTURE;

CLOSED-LOOP MANUFACTURING; COPY MACHINE; FORCED CIRCULATIONS; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE CYCLE SIMULATIONS; LIFE-CYCLE DESIGN; MULTI-TIERED;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 84858813091     PISSN: 17427223     EISSN: 17427231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSM.2009.031364     Document Type: Article

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