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

这项拨款提供资金，研究企业如何利用互联网在回收设计方面进行合作，并合作从退役产品中回收有价值的部件和材料。该项目的目标是为电子产品退货中心的新工业部门奠定信息系统基础。这些中心将得到制造商参与管理和档案子系统和产品设计咨询子系统的支持。通过订阅MA子系统，制造商可以使用独立的回收中心作为其回收产品的代理。PDA子系统将为在产品设计研究上合作的制造商联盟存档设计原则和拆卸方法。目前的探索阶段主要集中在为自动化管理子系统设计可扩展的系统架构，为PDA子系统开发集成设计数据库，以及选择确保系统安全的方法。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、初始原型设计、测试和系统概念设计的初始规格说明。本研究结果的成功实施，将允许回收中心查阅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，并跟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和购买其退役产品、组件和材料的制造商之间的所有财务交易。该制度将鼓励制造商合作研究回收利用的产品设计，消费者将退役产品回收利用，投资者建立退役产品收集和回收企业。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。

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.