Assembly and Disassembly Processes in Product Life Cycle Perspectives

Abstract Industrial companies change the paradigms of business operations from optimisation of manufacturing processes to optimisation of products life cycles in order to activate the value of products, taking into account the potentials of product services in all phases of each product's life. From design to the end of their life capital intensive products, like manufacturing or assembly systems, are linked to a manufacturer network by global communication systems. This network allows special services even in the phases of usage and recycling. For this new paradigm it is necessary to develop strategies, methods and technologies to manage the business processes and the information and knowledge required in all phases of a product's life and to industrialise the processes of design, assembly, usage, service and remanufacturing by disassembly and recycling. It is the objective of this paper to define the processes for management of life cycle with a focus on assembly, service and disassembly of capital intensive products.

[1]  E. Westkämper,et al.  Life Cycle Management and Assessment: Approaches and Visions Towards Sustainable Manufacturing (keynote paper) , 2000 .

[2]  G. Seliger,et al.  Cooperative Design, Manufacturing and Assembly of Complex Products , 1997 .

[3]  David Wallace,et al.  An Analytical Method for Integrating Environmental and Traditional Design Considerations , 1997 .

[4]  Günther Seliger,et al.  Life cycle networks : proceedings of the 4th CIRP International Seminar on Life Cycle Engineering, 26-27 June, 1997, Berlin, Germany , 1997 .

[5]  M. Hashemian,et al.  An Integrated Modular Design Methodology for Life-Cycle Engineering , 1997 .

[6]  Yasushi Umeda,et al.  Development of Upgradable Cellular Machines for Environmentally Conscious Products , 1998 .

[7]  K. Feldmann,et al.  Highly flexible Assembly – Scope and Justification , 2001 .

[8]  Leo Alting,et al.  Life cycle engineering and design , 1995 .

[9]  D. Alting,et al.  The Life Cycle Concept as a Basis for Sustainable Industrial Production , 1993 .

[10]  G. Chryssolouris,et al.  Hierarchical Part Planning Strategy for Environmentally Conscious Machining , 1996 .

[11]  Reinhard Müller,et al.  A Disassembly Information System , 1997 .

[12]  T. Dowie,et al.  Product disassembly costing in a life-cycle context , 1995 .

[13]  Amory B. Lovins,et al.  Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution , 1999 .

[14]  E. Westkämper,et al.  Product Life Cycle Costing Applied to Manufacturing Systems , 1998 .

[15]  Anne Lohrli.  Chapman and Hall , 1985 .

[16]  Daniel Brissaud,et al.  PRODUCT MODELS for LIFE-CYCLE , 2001 .

[17]  Jörg Kemminer.  Lebenszyklusorientiertes Kosten- und Erlösmanagement , 1999 .

[18]  Alphonse J. Dell'Isola,et al.  Life Cycle Costing for Design Professionals , 1981 .

[19]  E. Westkämper,et al.  Integrated Development of Assembly and Disassembly , 1999 .

[20]  Engelbert Westkämper,et al.  Life cycle management and assessment: Approaches and visions towards sustainable manufacturing , 2001 .

[21]  G. Boothroyd,et al.  Design for Disassembly and the Environment , 1996 .

[22]  Pere Fullana,et al.  Análisis del ciclo de la vida , 1997 .

[23]  Jun Ota,et al.  Agile Assembly System by “Plug and Produce” , 2000 .

[24]  B. F. von Turkovich,et al.  Environmental-Based Systems Planning for Machining , 1998 .

[25]  Herbert Birkhofer,et al.  Development of environmentally friendly products—methods, material and instruments , 1996 .

[26]  F.-L. Krause,et al.  Potentials of information technology for life-cycle-oriented product and process development , 1996 .