CAREER: Integrated Product and De- and Remanufacture Process Design

职业：集成产品以及拆解和再制造流程设计

• 批准号: 9624787
• 负责人: Bert Bras
• 金额: $ 29.5万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-08-01 至 2001-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9624787&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Integrated; Product; De; Remanufacture

9624787 Bras This NSF Career Award provides support for research on how to enhance the integrated design of products and de- and remanufacture processes. Demanufacture is defined as the entire process opposite to manufacture involved in recycling, reuse, incineration and/or disposal of products after they have been taken back by one or more companies. The specific objectives of the work are to establish (1) the operational parameters and models for an extended set of commercial and prototypical plastic-metal chemical and mechanical product de- and remanufacturing processes, (2) computer-based tools for integrated product and process design of plastic-metal products with associated appropriate high performance and robust de- and remanufacture processes, and (3) the efficient and effective integration of such new technologies in engineering education. These objectives will be achieved by (1) classifying the technical, economical and ecological performance of appropriate de- and remanfacture processes, (2) developing models for de- and remanufacturability performance and robustness assessments, (3) developing tools for de- and remanufacturability process selection and synthesis, (4) integrating this process selection and synthesis with product design and synthesis models, and (5) enhancing the education and learning about new technologies in general and de- and remanufacture in particular through the development and assessment of new courseware and educational facilities. Educational focal points are to (a) increase learning through doing by creating a facility where students can demanufacture real systems, (b) increase the outreach to practicing engineers (and others) by creating self-study (multi-media) courseware on product and process design for de- and remanufacture, and (c) increase the diversity of students and encourage holistic thinking by creating an international course on Environmentally Conscious Design. A primary issue is assessing the effectiveness of the learning that takes place by the students. A secondary issue is the efficiency of the delivery of the educational material. This award will provide advances in the field of recycling durable goods, like automobiles. It will help to increase the US competitiveness with respect to designing products and cost-effective recycling processes that will meet current and pending product take-back legislation in Europe. The research will contribute to new technologies for pursing recyclability, reusability, and other means of environmentally benign product disposal. Other tangible outcomes will be computer-based tools that will provide decision support and enable designers to explore different recycling process scenarios in conjunction with the product design.

9624787 Bras NSF职业奖为如何提高产品的集成设计和拆解和再制造过程的研究提供支持。拆解被定义为与制造相反的整个过程，涉及产品被一家或多家公司回收后的回收、再利用、焚烧和/或处置。这项工作的具体目标是建立(1)一套扩展的商业和原型塑料金属化学和机械产品的分解和再制造过程的操作参数和模型，(2)基于计算机的塑料金属产品的综合产品和过程设计工具，具有相关的适当高性能和强大的分解和再制造过程，(3)这些新技术在工程教育中的高效整合。这些目标将通过以下方式实现：(1)对适当的拆解和再制造过程的技术、经济和生态性能进行分类，(2)开发拆解和再制造性能和稳健性评估模型，(3)开发拆解和再制造过程选择和合成的工具，(4)将该过程选择和合成与产品设计和合成模型集成，(5)通过开发和评估新的课件和教育设施，加强对新技术的教育和学习，特别是对拆卸和再制造的教育和学习。教育重点是(a)通过创建一个学生可以拆卸真实系统的设施来增加实践学习，(b)通过创建用于拆卸和再制造的产品和过程设计的自学（多媒体）课件来增加与实践工程师（和其他人）的联系，以及(c)通过创建环保意识设计的国际课程来增加学生的多样性并鼓励整体思维。一个主要问题是评估学生学习的有效性。第二个问题是教材的分发效率。该奖项将推动汽车等耐用品回收领域的进步。它将有助于提高美国在设计产品和具有成本效益的回收过程方面的竞争力，以满足欧洲当前和即将出台的产品回收立法。这项研究将有助于寻求可回收性、可重复使用性和其他无害环境的产品处置方法的新技术。其他有形的成果将是基于计算机的工具，它将提供决策支持，并使设计师能够结合产品设计探索不同的回收过程方案。