LT: Green Modularity: Ecology and Product Retirement

这项研究旨在确定并将退役模块化纳入机械设计。该研究使用了模块化的扩展定义，该定义包含了模块化的潜力，不仅基于拆卸，而且基于分组退役方法。这个定义，加上几个重要的设计工具，将导致一个可实现的设计方法，用于将退役模块合并到产品中。模块化，由于它所创造的功能独立性，被称为优秀设计的目标。业界已经努力将产品模块化，以方便地满足最终用户和市场的需求。这种努力导致了产品族的产生。有时，创建模块时会考虑到产品退役的某些方面。然而，这种模块化是在没有完全理解设计变更的财务含义的情况下完成的。此外，模块化是在没有结构化方法的情况下完成的，这使得成功的过程难以重复，失败的过程则难以避免。本研究将开发一种创建产品的方法，该方法在产品退役方面是模块化的。这样做将减少环境负荷，降低退役处理成本，并缩短产品开发时间。本研究将产生一种实用的、适用的方法来识别产品退役模块，并将功能和退役模块化结合到设计方法和模块化度量中。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，并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，即更好地将生命周期价值纳入产品设计中。这项研究将在实际步骤中进行，并辅以验证研究。。本提案的研究结果将是一个有效的设计方法和措施。这项工作也将在每一个关键时刻在出版物中传播，并最终纳入一个计算机工具。这项工作将通过阿拉巴马大学生命周期工程实验室的教师和研究生的工作以及本科生研究人员和学生的合作来完成。＊＊＊

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. ***