Design For Assembly/disassembly (DFA) allows systematic evaluations and analysis of product assembly and disassembly during the product design stage with the goal of reducing assembly costs, improving quality and shortening time to market. These evaluations include assemblability, disassemblability, part accessibility, and part layout [1]. With the growing availability and widespread use of hig...

The patterning of actin cytoskeleton structures in vivo is a product of spatially and temporally regulated polymer assembly balanced by polymer disassembly. While in recent years our understanding of actin assembly mechanisms has grown immensely, our knowledge of actin disassembly machinery and mechanisms has remained comparatively sparse. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is an ideal system to tackle t...

Abstract De-manufacturing and re-manufacturing are fundamental technical solutions to efficiently recover value from post-use products. Disassembly in one of the most complex activities de-manufacturing because i) more manual it is higher its cost, ii) disassembly times variable due uncertainty conditions products reaching their EoL, iii) necessary know which components disassemble balance cost...

layer The Information Models in the abstract layer hold the fundamental modeling concepts, which are independent of a particular problem or domain and can therefore be universally applied. They describe the design guidelines (design pattern) for the construction of the other sub models in the DIM. Models like n-ary relationship, part-whole relationship, graph model and system model belong to th...