LT: Green Modularity: Ecology and Product Retirement

LT：绿色模块化：生态和产品退役

• 批准号: 9727247
• 负责人: John Gershenson
• 金额: $ 6.3万
• 依托单位: University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-10-01 至 1998-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9727247&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: LT; Green; Modularity; Ecology; Product

9727247 Gershenson This research seeks to identify and incorporate retirement modularization into mechanical design. The research uses an expanded definition of modularity, which incorporates the potential of modularity based not only on disassembly but also on grouped retirement methods. This definition, coupled with several important design tools will lead to an implementable design methodology for incorporating retirement modules into products. Modularization, due to the functional independence it creates, has been called the goal of good design. Industry has made an effort to modularize products to easily meet the needs of end users and marketing. This effort has led to the creation of product families. Occasionally, modules are created with some aspects of product retirement in mind. However, this modularization is done without fully understanding the financial implications of the design changes. In addition, modularization is done without a structured methodology making the process difficult to repeat if it is successful and difficult to avoid if it is unsuccessful. This research will develop a methodology of creating products that are modular with respect to product retirement. Doing so will decrease environmental loads, decrease retirement processing costs, and decrease product development time. This research will yield a practical, applicable methodology for identifying product retirement modules as well as combining functional and retirement modularity into a design methodology and modularity measure. The adoption of modular product design in product development practices will have a tremendous impact on product value, environmental loads, and life-cycle cost. Modular products will greatly reduce development time and help us move towards global sustainability. The design theory research community will be impacted by the introduction of a new direction in the effort to better incorporate life-cycle values into product design. This r esearch will progress in practical steps punctuated by validation studies. The result of the research in this proposal will be a validated design methodology and measure. The work will also be disseminated in publications at each critical juncture and ultimately incorporated in a computer tool. The work will be accomplished through the work of the faculty and graduate students of the University of Alabama Life-cycle Engineering Laboratory with collaboration from undergraduate researchers and students. ***

9727247 Gershenson本研究旨在确定并将退休模块化纳入机械设计。 本研究使用了模块化的扩展定义，它不仅基于拆卸，而且基于分组退休方法，结合了模块化的潜力。 这个定义，加上几个重要的设计工具，将导致一个可实施的设计方法，将退休模块纳入产品。 模块化，由于它创造的功能独立性，被称为良好设计的目标。 工业界努力使产品模块化，以方便满足最终用户和市场的需要。 这一努力导致了产品系列的创建。 有时，模块的创建会考虑到产品退役的某些方面。 然而，这种模块化是在没有充分了解设计变化所涉经费问题的情况下进行的。 此外，模块化是在没有结构化方法的情况下进行的，因此，如果成功，则难以重复这一过程，如果不成功，则难以避免。 这项研究将开发一种方法，创造产品的模块化方面的产品退休。 这样做将减少环境负荷，降低报废处理成本，并减少产品开发时间。 这项研究将产生一个实际的，适用的方法来确定产品退休模块，以及结合功能和退休模块化的设计方法和模块化措施。 在产品开发实践中采用模块化产品设计将对产品价值、环境负荷和生命周期成本产生巨大影响。 模块化产品将大大缩短开发时间，帮助我们实现全球可持续发展。 设计理论研究界将受到一个新方向的影响，该方向旨在更好地将生命周期价值纳入产品设计。 这项研究将在验证研究的实际步骤中取得进展。 本方案的研究结果将是一个经过验证的设计方法和措施。 这项工作还将在每一个关键时刻以出版物的形式传播，并最终纳入一个计算机工具。 这项工作将通过亚拉巴马大学生命周期工程实验室的教师和研究生的工作与本科研究人员和学生的合作来完成。 ***