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层面的方法和环境良性设计和制造的需求。在产品设计和制造中，人们越来越关注将后使用作为设计过程的一部分，以便在材料或组件的回收、材料的再循环、零件或整个系统的再制造以及在回收其他组件的同时重新使用某些组件方面做出适当的决定。美国国家科学基金会/美国能源部最近赞助的一项关于无害环境制造的研究指出，需要采用综合系统方法来解决制造业中的环境问题。本次研讨会的首要目标是促进对产品再x有不同看法的各方之间的知识转移和合作，并激发创新的系统级解决方案，这些解决方案将提高产品再x在实践中的效率和有效性。这个跨学科的研讨会以一种独特的方式，将工程与管理、公共政策和经济发展结合起来，促进使用后阶段的综合方法。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，自愿回收联盟），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，并强调产品再x挑战的综合方法。此外，在一些重要领域的研究不足，包括新兴技术（如生物基材料）对产品使用后阶段的影响，我们希望通过这次研讨会来促进这一点。

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.