著者

増井 慶次郎 ローズ キャサリン 水原 清司 石井 浩介

出版者

公益社団法人精密工学会

雑誌

精密工学会誌 (ISSN:09120289)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.66, no.4, pp.567-571, 2000-04-05

被引用文献数

10 5 3

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This paper surveys end-of-life strategies currently used in the electronics and appliances industries and identifies product characteristics that guide designers to specify appropriate strategies. The survey indicates that important characteristics are wear-out life, design cycle, technology cycle, functional complexity, number of materials, and number of parts. Two key characteristics, wear-out life and technology cycle, serve as factors to categorize products' appropriate life-cycle scenarios. The categorization leads to a methodology that guides product designers to seek environmentally friendly designs, and to identify opportunities for developing new recycling technologies. Further, an application of quality function deployment (QFD) as a design support tool for helping design engineers early in the product design based on appropriate life-cycle strategies is proposed.