Designers and engineers need better tools methods to create highly repairable products. Design for disassembly reassembly is an important product related design feature that can enhance repair. In a product, the components fail most often should be easily accessible repair or replacement. This paper describes development of method visually map showing different routes towards target components....

A new EU directive on used vehicles has recently been introduced. It demands that for every scrapped car, at least 85% by weight must be recycled by the year 2006 and 95% by 2015. The current level is about 80%. The growing car disassembly industry was chosen as the study object of this thesis. Due to the increased demands on recycling, the disassembly industry is expected to undergo comprehens...

Engineering for disassembly of waste products is becoming increasingly complex. Furthermore, customer expectations are growing, competition is becoming harder, legal requirements are stricter and the quality of technical products is continuously improving. FMEA is a formalised, analytical method for the systematic, consistent collation and prevention of potential sources of errors and their res...

Actin-interacting protein 1 (AIP1) is a conserved WD-repeat protein that enhances actin filament disassembly only in the presence of actin depolymerizing factor (ADF)/cofilin. In the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, an AIP1 ortholog is encoded by the unc-78 gene that is required for organized assembly of muscle actin filaments. We produced bacterially expressed UNC-78 protein and found that it ...

Purpose – This paper aims to develop path-planning techniques that support a general selective disassembly planner in a virtual reality environment. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents an automatic selective disassembly planning and two path-planning techniques that support it. The first one is based on single translations, while the second is based on the generation of a random se...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Reversible assembly and disassembly of nanostructures has important function in controllable construction of nanodevices. There are several methods to achieve reversible assembly/disassembly, such as pH, temperature, DNA hybridization and so on. Among these methods, pH driven reversible assembly presents superiority due to its ease-of-use and no waste produced. Herein w...