WORKSHOP: Product Re-X: Recovery, Recycling, Reuse and Remanufacturing. Innovations in Business Models, Product Design and Economic Development; June 21, 2006

2006年6月21日在亚特兰大举行的关于产品Re-X：商业模式、产品设计和经济发展中的回收、再循环、再制造和再利用创新的研讨会的目的是探索多学科系统水平的方法和需求，这是环境友好设计和制造的相对领域。在产品设计和制造中，人们越来越关注将使用后的问题作为设计过程的一部分，以便就材料或部件的回收、材料的再循环、部件或整个系统的再制造以及在回收其他部件的同时再利用一些部件作出适当的决定。美国国家科学基金会/能源部最近赞助的一项关于环境友好型制造业的研究指出，需要采取全面的系统方法来解决制造业中的环境问题。本次研讨会的总体目标是促进对产品re-X有不同观点的各方之间的知识转移和合作，并激励创新的系统级解决方案，以提高产品re-X在实践中的效率和有效性。这一跨学科研讨会以独特的方式促进使用后阶段的综合方法，将工程与管理，公共政策和经济发展结合在一起。将涵盖的观点包括工程方面（材料选择和产品设计），企业商业模式（再制造战略，自愿回收财团），创新（生物基材料），监管（国际政策发展对美国企业的影响）和经济发展（回收作为发展工具）。更重要的是，我们将强调这些观点之间的联系，并强调应对产品re-X挑战的综合方法。此外，在一些重要领域，包括新兴技术（如生物基材料）对产品使用后阶段的影响，我们的目标是通过本次研讨会激发研究。

The object of this workshop on Product Re-X: Recovery, Recycling, Remanufacturing and Reuse Innovations in Business Models, Product Design and Economic Development to be held in Atlanta, June 21, 2006 is to explore multi-disciplinary systems level approaches and needs in this relatively are of Environmentally Benign Design and Manufacturing. In product design and manufacturing, there is a growing concern for considering post-use as part of the design process, so that appropriate decisions can be made on recovery of materials or components, recycling of materials, remanufacture of parts or the complete system, and reuse of some components while recycling others. The need for comprehensive systems approaches to address environmental issues in manufacturing was noted in a recent NSF/DOE sponsored study on Environmentally Benign Manufacturing. The overarching goal of this workshop is to facilitate the knowledge transfer and collaboration between parties that have different perspectives on product re-X and to stimulate innovative system-level solutions that will increase the efficiency and effectiveness of product re-X in practice. This interdisciplinary workshop promotes such comprehensive approaches for the post-use phase in a unique manner that brings together engineering with management, public policy and economic development. The perspectives that will be covered include engineering aspects (material selection and product design), enterprise business models (remanufacturing strategy, voluntary take-back consortia), innovation (bio-based materials), regulation (impact of international policy developments on US businesses) and economic development (recycling as a development tool). More importantly, we will emphasize the linkages between these perspectives and emphasize integrated approaches to product re-X challenges.In addition, there is scant research on some important areas including the impact of emerging technologies such as bio-based materials on the post-use phase of products, which we aim to stimulate with this workshop.