Scalable Enterprise Systems: An Enabling System for Market-Driven Collaborative Product Design and Recycling

可扩展的企业系统：市场驱动的协作产品设计和回收的支持系统

• 批准号: 0075575
• 负责人: Sarah Ryan
• 金额: $ 18万
• 依托单位: Iowa State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-08-01 至 2002-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0075575&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scalable; Enterprise; Systems; Enabling; System

This grant provides funding to investigate how enterprises can use the Internet to collaborate on design for recycling and cooperate in reclaiming valuable parts and materials from retired products. The project's goal is to lay the information system foundation for a new industry sector of return centers for electronic products. These centers would be supported by manufacturer involvement with a management and archival (MA) subsystem and a product design advisory (PDA) subsystem. By subscribing to the MA subsystem, manufacturers could employ independent return centers as their agents for collecting their retired products. The PDA subsystem would archive design principles and disassembly methods for a consortium of manufacturers that collaborate on product design research. The current exploratory phase of research focuses on designing scalable system architectures for the MA subsystem, developing an integrated design database for the PDA subsystem, and choosing methods to ensure systems security. The research tasks include requirements analysis, preliminary functional analysis and requirements allocation, model development, initial prototyping, testing and initial specifications for a conceptual design of the system.Implementation of the results of this research, if successful, will allow a return center to consult the PDA archive to retrieve methods for disassembly, query the MA subsystem to determine the best market value for components and materials, and track the locations and identities of the products manufacturers and recyclers. The MA subsystem will handle and archive all financial transactions between the return centers and manufacturers who buy back their retired products, components, and materials. The system will encourage manufacturers to collaborate in research on product design for recycling, consumers to return retired products for recycling, and investors to establish retired product collection and recycling enterprises. The results concerning scalability, database design and security will apply to other enterprise computing applications as well.

这项赠款提供资金，以调查企业如何利用互联网合作设计回收和合作回收有价值的零件和材料从退役产品。该项目的目标是为电子产品退货中心的新产业部门奠定信息系统基础。这些中心将由制造商参与管理和档案（MA）子系统和产品设计咨询（PDA）子系统提供支持。通过订阅MA子系统，制造商可以聘请独立的退货中心作为他们的代理人，收集他们的退休产品。 PDA子系统将为合作进行产品设计研究的制造商联盟存档设计原则和拆卸方法。目前的探索阶段的研究重点是设计可扩展的系统架构的MA子系统，开发一个集成的设计数据库的PDA子系统，并选择方法，以确保系统的安全性。 研究任务包括需求分析、初步功能分析和需求分配、模型开发、初始原型、测试和系统概念设计的初始规格。如果成功实施本研究结果，将允许返回中心查阅PDA档案以检索拆卸方法，查询MA子系统以确定组件和材料的最佳市场价值，并追踪产品制造商和回收商的位置和身份。 MA子系统将处理和存档退货中心与回购其报废产品、组件和材料的制造商之间的所有财务交易。 该系统将鼓励制造商合作研究回收产品设计，消费者返回回收产品，投资者建立回收产品和回收企业。 有关可伸缩性，数据库设计和安全性的结果也将适用于其他企业计算应用程序。