Optimized Product Design Methodology: A Combinatorial Reverse Logistic Cost-Benefit Analysis Model of WEEPs

Abstract:

The growing amount of waste electrical and electronic products has been a tough issue in many countries. Widely expressed public concern for the environment and increasingly stringent regulations have been putting pressure on related manufacturers, forcing them to produce and dispose products in an environmentally responsible manner. Thus, during the conception and development of products, emphasis is now being put on designing products for ease of recycling and disposal. This paper presents a mathematical programming model as a tool for identifying the best design plan for optimization of WEEPs reverse logistic cost among alternative schemes. The monetary factors in the model includes the costs of main activities during the whole product recycling process, which consists of transportation, inspection, clean, repair, disassembly, materials recovery and wastes disposal as well as the benefits derived from returned products to be reused and recovered and energy acquired from the solid wastes incineration. Based on the presented model, designers could figure out the best combination options in materials, structural layout and inter-part connections. Finally, different design plans for optical mouse are discussed as a case example to offer a better insight into the proposed model and product design methodology.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 650)
• Pages: 692-697
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.650.692
• Online since: January 2013
• Authors: Jia Lli Huang
• Keywords: Design for Recycling, Disassembly, Reverse Logistic, WEEP

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