Product modularity for life cycle design |
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Authors: | Yasushi Umeda Shinsuke Kondoh |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Yamada-oka 2-1, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan b National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan |
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Abstract: | Modular design is an important elemental technique in life cycle design for improving, e.g., maintainability, upgradability, reusability, and recyclability. Appropriate modular structure differs according to applied life cycle options; e.g., while the modular structure for recycling should be based on material kinds, the structure for upgrading should be based on functions to be obsolete. This paper proposes a method for determining modular structure by aggregating various attributes related to a product life cycle and evaluating geometric feasibility of modules. This paper also illustrates the prototype system that implements the proposed method and a case study of a printer. |
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Keywords: | Lifecycle Geometric modelling Modular design |
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