Riding the Digital Product Life Cycle Waves towards a Circular Economy

Towards facilitating circular product life-cycle information flow via remanufacturing

In order to achieve a sustainable development, circular economy approaches and circular material flows are explored in industry. However, circular information flows remain essentially unestablished. The aim of this paper is to: 1) explore categories and types of product life-cycle information available for remanufacturing; 2) identify constraints for efficient product life-cycle information flo...

Transition towards a Circular Economy: Perspectives

The UK economy is overly reliant on unsustainable production and consumption 12 practices, depleting finite resources at rates that will increase production costs, business risk and 13 economic instability. This over-consumption produces emissions and waste that cause climate 14 change and environmental degradation, impacting on the wellbeing of people in the UK and 15 beyond. The Resource Reco...

Delft University of Technology The role of product designers in the transition towards the circular economy

Towards product health monitoring throughout its life-cycle

Product Health Monitoring (PHM) is the process of monitoring usage conditions of the product. Like Structural Health Monitoring systems, they are traditionally deployed during the MiddleOf-Life (MOL) phase of the product’s life-cycle. The aim of this paper is to describe the concept of PHM throughout its life-cycle. Advances in Nanotechnology and wireless nano sensors networks allow envisaging ...

Modular Product Design: A Life-Cycle View

This paper discusses the incorporation of modularization into mechanical designs. The research uses a definition of modularity that incorporates the potential of modularity based not only on the form/function structure of a product but also life-cycle processes such as manufacture, assembly, service, and recycling. Modularization, due to the functional independence it creates, has been called t...