Information Sharing and Utilization for Environmental Loads in Disassembly System Design with PLM

摘要

Nowadays products and their product lifecycle design are required for lower environmental loads throughout the whole of the closed-loop supply chains, and reuse and recycling are well known for reducing the environmental loads in view of resource circulation. For promoting the resource circulation for assembly products with the supply chains, disassembly systems for the reuse and recycling should be designed economically for not only recovering product values but also reducing operating costs. However, the recovered parts/materials by the disassembly also have the environmental loads, and this information can be shared with the product design phase as the bill of materials (BOM) by utilizing recent Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tools such as a 3D-CAD. This study considers the environmental loads for the recovered parts/materials as well as the product recovery values and the system efficiency in the disassembly system design, and proposes the information sharing and utilization for lower environmental loads in the disassembly system design with PLM.