tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29102646178980366432024-03-12T19:25:22.332-07:00Design for DisassemblyDr. Joseph Chiodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364222160445503418noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2910264617898036643.post-63550762610789779122014-05-20T15:12:00.002-07:002014-05-20T15:12:42.136-07:00Recycling Facts and Product Design<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Original post:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.899999618530273px;"><b>Product design</b> is the first important factor for recycling to be successful and effective in </span><a href="http://www.all-recycling-facts.com/benefits-of-recycling.html" style="line-height: 16.899999618530273px;">saving the environment</a><span style="line-height: 16.899999618530273px;"> and </span><a href="http://www.all-recycling-facts.com/recycling-benefits.html" style="line-height: 16.899999618530273px;">benefiting the economy</a><span style="line-height: 16.899999618530273px;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Much of the difficulty inherent in recycling arises from the fact that most products are not designed with recycling in mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In order words, the design of some things are such that they are hard to recycle, or simply cannot be recycled. This means that even if a community is motivated to recycle as much as is possible, it would be limited by the things that can be recycled. Such circumstances hinder success in recycling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">With the increasing threat of global warming, carbon footprint, depletion of the ozone layer, and ultimately the melting of the arctic ice, industries must rethink the basic principles on which businesses are functioning. Greater efforts have to be put into protecting the environment while achieving economic growth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>For recycling to be possible in the first place, design of products must have recycling or environmental protection as an end-goal in mind.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This requires the industries to think a step further, beyond satisfying their customers’ needs for products, to what could happen to the products after they are consumed. Product design with recycling in mind is one of the important factors for success in recycling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Designing products with recycling in mind is a relatively new practice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Much investment into research and development of green products, or products that are environment friendly, biodegradable, completely recyclable, or decomposable, is still needed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">There are two important questions that need to be answered in product design.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>First, is the product recyclable and/or biodegradable?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Second and the more important question, can the raw material from which the product is made of be used to make new products, after recycling?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">If the answer to both questions is in the affirmative, then this is a green product and should certainly be encouraged to be manufactured, marketed, and sold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Other than product design, the manufacturing process matters too for success in recycling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Whatever by-products that could be diverted back to the manufacturing process should not be wasted. Manufacturing processes should be designed to produce as little harmful wastes as possible. Whatever waste that cannot be avoided should be dealt with properly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For example, the waste could be rendered harmless first before disposal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">But it is not enough for products and their manufacturing processes to be environmentally friendly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>They have to make economic sense as well, to be sustainable.</b> There needs to be a holistic understanding of the various costs and benefits. For example, cardboard packaging for food products is more easily recycled than plastic, but it is heavier to ship and may result in more waste from spoilage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">As more and more product manufacturers become aware of the impact they have on the environment, and are driven not only by profitability, but also the safety and recyclability of the material and manufacturing process used, we can look forward to new frontiers in recycling and environmental protection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hopefully, it is something we can see happening soon enough before our responsible actions on the environment becomes irreversible. Every one of us must start doing our part now!</span></div>
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<br />Dr. Joseph Chiodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364222160445503418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2910264617898036643.post-1830167613885513862014-05-14T06:24:00.000-07:002014-05-14T06:24:06.007-07:00Dell receives major design for recycling award<br />
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">United States</b>: <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Computer giant Dell has won the ISRI 2014 Design for Recycling Award for two of its tablets and a laptop model in recognition of their emphasis on recycling during every lifecycle phase.</b></div>
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The accolade is claimed to be ISRI's 'highest' award given annually to the 'most outstanding contribution to products designed with recycling in mind'. It recognises 'proactive steps made by manufacturers', adds the recycling body.</div>
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'There were many strong contenders for this year's award, but Dell's strong commitment to sustainability, both through its own practices and for those who use its products, rose above the crowd,' comments ISRI president Robin Wiener. 'As more and more manufacturers place a strong emphasis on recycling at the beginning of the design phase, we look forward to many more qualified applicants for this award in the future.'</div>
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The Dell Latitude 10 and XPS 10 tablets as well as the company's Latitude E7240 laptop were lauded for: modularity in design; clear labelling of parts for identification; minimal use of glues/adhesives; and convenient disassembly guides.</div>
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Dell products are claimed to contain significant quantities of recycled materials, including nearly 3.6 million tonnes of recycled plastic in its desktops and monitors.</div>
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The iron was on, but the plate was cool to the touch. The realization set in that after two short years of service, the thing was dead.</div>
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I remember seeing Granddad fix all sorts of household appliances growing up, tinkering and cursing for hours before yielding a re-functional product. So, I, too, set the iron on my workbench to revive it. Right off the bat, I knew this wasn't going to be easy. All of the screws on the outside had a proprietary head design. After some careful work with a needle nose, they were out, but the plastic shells still wouldn't come apart. I pried with screwdrivers, torqued on handles, pulled on snap fits. After finally getting to the metal base, I found it covered in epoxy. By the time all was said and done, my iron lay in a dozen broken pieces on the counter, and I cursed the work of my profession.</div>
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Profoundly frustrated by this experience, I disassembled the same iron once more, documenting each step to illustrate the pain. Armed with the knowledge from my disastrous first try, it was a bit easier, but still took 67 steps to separate 52 parts. Design for Disassembly (DfD) could have prevented this mess.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What is Design for Disassembly?</b><br />
Design for Disassembly is a design strategy that considers the future need to disassemble a product for repair, refurbish or recycle. Will a product need to be repaired? Which parts will need replacement? Who will repair it? How can the experience be simple and intuitive? Can the product be reclaimed, refurbished, and resold? If it must be discarded, how can we facilitate its disassembly into easily recyclable components? By responding to questions like these, the DfD method increases the effectiveness of a product both during and after its life.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ten seconds to full disassembly.</em></div>
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For example, this low-cost floss container embodies the essence of DfD—simple to assemble and disassembled. It's easy to open, free of glues, screws, or heat stakes. The main component's material is clearly labeled, and the parts are quickly separated.</div>
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Our ancient tools, meticulously crafted from natural materials and intended for repair and reuse, are perhaps the earliest example of DfD. During the 1950's rise of consumerism, fueled by mass production methods, cheap labor, and design fashion, disposability became the norm. Over time, the waste created by planned obsolescence and a throw-away culture was exposed. Organizations studied the negative impacts of toxins found in our product waste and governments began to regulate. In 2004, the European Union passed the landmark WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Directive, placing the responsibility of disposing electronic products with their manufacturers. This tectonic shift was recognized as a sign of things to come by global manufacturers, driving interest in the DfD strategy.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Design for Disassembly roadmap.</em></div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">How do I DfD?</b><br />
Given environmental and cost constraints, our challenge is as much product de-creation as it is creation. And DfD strategies are applied throughout the entire design cycle; designers will need to educate the team, discover waste, set goals, create solutions, and then monitor results through production, release, use, and end-of-life.</div>
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Above is a general How-to-DfD roadmap. It's not a set path, but a framework of actions that can be performed in almost any order to achieve the end goal of designing more efficient products. As you may expect, for safety reasons, not all products should be disassembled by users. Disassembly of high-risk products (such medical devices, high-voltage electronics, automobiles, etc.) is better left to trained technicians (or MacGyver).</div>
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With the help of several DfD practitioners, I elaborate on the key steps of DfD below, from the research-based Pre-Design phase to the user testing of Post-Design. If <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">you</em> have experience with DfD, please join the dialogue by posting your tips, techniques, and experiences in the<a href="http://boards.core77.com/viewforum.php?f=14" style="color: #a2584e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">"Designers Accord and Green Design"</a> section of the Core77 Forums (and include "DfD" in the title).</div>
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Here we go:</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pre-Design: Organizational Education + Buy-In</b></div>
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<u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Reduction of Labor Costs</u>: Products that disassemble easily often assemble easily, saving the company time and money on labor. Also, if products need to be repaired or refurbished, quick disassembly will save time and effort for the company and keep the customer satisfied.</div>
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<u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Reduction of Material Costs</u>: DfD solutions emphasize simplicity. By closely examining the anatomy of a product, designers are often able to find components that can be combined or deleted altogether, saving material and production costs. In addition, when products can be refurbished, the material and production costs are greatly reduced—as with disposable cameras or printer cartridges.</div>
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<u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Open New Markets</u>: When companies make smart choices, people notice. Honda, a leader in fuel-efficient vehicles, has developed a reputation for building cars that minimize their impact on the environment. "Consumers recognize Honda as a leader in developing efficient cars. Design for disassembly is part of our strategy for building cars that takes end-of-life into account," remarks Jose Wyszogrod of <a href="http://world.honda.com/group/HondaRandDAmericas/" style="color: #a2584e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Honda R+D America</a>. Honda actively voices their design philosophy in their marketing, which helps to drive sales with eco-conscious consumers.</div>
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<u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Systems Thinking</u>: "Having designers understand how they can affect the different groups in the organization is fundamental to designing more sustainable products," notes Phil Berry, President of <a href="http://www.sustainableproductworks.com/" style="color: #a2584e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Sustainable Product Works</a>, and former Director of Footwear Sustainability at<a href="http://www.nike.com/" style="color: #a2584e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Nike</a>. "Development teams used to be isolated in silos, but now are working together to find new ways to build products that can be separated into pure materials." By seeing that products can be reclaimed, designers are changing the way things are constructed, so those materials can be re-integrated into the production cycle.</div>
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<u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Walk the Talk</u>: "If the company has existing mandates, hold the team accountable for reaching those goals," notes Travis Lee, Sustainable Design Lead at <a href="http://www.lunar.com/" style="color: #a2584e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Lunar</a>. When companies have established ecology policies, development teams need to remind people of those goals, and then set the bar higher.</div>
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<u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sharing Goals with Strategic Suppliers</u>: "Work with your partners to bring new solutions to the table" remarks Jose Wyszogrod. By working closely with manufacturers, Honda developed recyclable faux leather. Not only can the material re-enter the resource stream, it also eliminates the toxic chemicals found in leather production such as chromium. Suppliers are experts in their field and can provide better alternatives if the design team communicates their objectives.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pre-Design: Research the Recycling Stream</b></div>
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<u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Visit Manufacturing and Assembly</u>: Regarding his visits to Nike's Asian suppliers, Phil Berry states "By analyzing the production facilities first hand, we were able to reclaim roughly 15% of material that would have been scrapped. We were also able to develop new techniques of how our shoes were built, allowing for future de-construction." By experiencing the manufacturing process, designers are able to identify complications, delays, and waste certain construction methods and material choices make.</div>
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While I was at <a href="http://www.sonosite.com/" style="color: #a2584e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">SonoSite Ultrasound</a>, Jake, an assembly technician called out "Hey, Mr. Designer, I heard you're designing the new medical cart..." "Uhhh, yeah" I replied. "This one is a pain to build, so if you have time I'd like to show you some things..." That opened a dialogue that simplified the next three generations of medical cart design, resulting in a $450 cost reduction in parts and shorter assembly time. Develop contacts within manufacturing that you can get unfiltered feedback from. They live the design daily and are a good early indicator of how successful the DfD effort has been.</div>
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<u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Visit a Recycling Operation</u>: "There is no substitute for getting in the trenches," comments Lee on his visits to the San Francisco Recycling and Disposal. Have a question about how something is sorted and processed? When in doubt, go to the source.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Design: Set goals + Project Planning</b></div>
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<u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Long term + Short Term</u>: To help measure performance, set a series of long-term and short-term goals. "Eliminating paint" would be a simple, attainable goal, for example, whereas "reducing assembly time by 50%" would likely be a much more involved effort. The short-term goals will give the team some tangible results, and help motivate them to continue to work on the long-term efforts. Whether a consultant or corporate designer, don't forget to include DfD goal creation and management in the scope of work and schedule.</div>
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<u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Written, Visible, + Measurable</u>: <a href="http://www.hermanmiller.com/About-Us/Environmental-Advocacy/Design-for-the-Environment" style="color: #a2584e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Herman Miller's Design for Environment (DFE) policy</a> evaluates products based on three core factors: material chemistry, design for disassembly, and recyclability. "In the product evaluation process, we ask four questions of our designs: Are the materials homogenous? Are common tools used to separate them? Did it take longer than 30 seconds to reverse a connection? And have the components been marked with their material type?" explains Scott Charon, Herman Miller's DFE Program Manager. Each and every component is scrutinized based on these factors and assigned ratings on a spreadsheet score card, allowing the design team to accurately evaluate the results.</div>
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To keep them from being forgotten, make goals written and highly visible. "Reducing assembly time" is a weaker goal than "Reducing assembly time from 4 minutes to 2 minutes." Keeping track of metrics will also allow designers to illustrate the savings DfD has contributed to the company. Don't wait until the end of the project to refer back to your goals; use routine design reviews to check in on progress. It's not likely you'll hit all of your goals on your first try. Aggressive goals are worth pursuing, learn from and build on each successive product generation.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Design: Research Materials + Processes</b></div>
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<u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Catalog</u>: The vast array of different materials, processes, assembly methods, and manufacturers can lead to information overload. Create documents to track material, design, and process options and document improvements.</div>
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<u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Minimize fastener types</u>: In general, decreasing variation decreases cost. If a copy machine has 34 different screw types, the company has to track, order, and stock them...and workers will need to be trained and supplied the proper tools to install them. If the design can be accommodated with just 3 screw types, material costs, management and labor time will be saved. Or designers can substitute screws with in-mold snap hooks. "We have replaced most screws with snap hooks. Screws require manpower to install, and are subject to loosen during vibration," notes Jose of Honda R+D.</div>
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<u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Minimize material types</u>: If a design can be made of fewer parts and material types, it will be easier to sort and recycle. Take this floss container for example. When it's finished, the entire steel casing can be recycled whole. If the other side was plastic, it would need to be manually separated and sorted for recycling.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A floss container comprised of two metal halves and a plastic spool.</em></div>
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<u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Avoid permanent fixing (adhesives, co-molding) of different materials</u>: A co-molded toothbrush or kitchen tool will not be recycled. Dissimilar materials cannot be recycled together. Nike had a similar issue with their shoes. "Bonded fabrics prevented them from re-entering the material stream. Instead we investigated ways to stitch or lace the material together," Phil Berry remarked of projects like the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_Considered" style="color: #a2584e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"> Nike Considered boot</a>. "If ultrasonic welding is required, we found spot welding rather than seam welding can allow for future separation," states Travis Lee of Lunar.</div>
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<u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Avoid toxic or harmful materials and chemicals</u>: "Chrome finishes require toxic chemicals, so with our new vehicles we actively seek alternative finishes," notes Jose of Honda R+D. Processing chemicals and materials like PVC, lead, PBDE, and PBB flame retardants are all known to be toxic, so alternatives should be used. DfD magnifies the relationship between material science and design, requiring the designer to understand the larger implications of the chosen materials.</div>
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<u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Avoid paint </u>: In-mold plastic color is preferable over paint or metallic coatings. Paint and coatings are costly, wear poorly, and prevent plastics from being recycled. VOC emissions from their application contribute to air pollution and are heavily regulated. For metal parts, powdercoating is a good alternative, offering better durability with a fraction of the VOC emissions.</div>
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<u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Identify material types </u>: Marking parts with international recycling symbols allows recyclers to confidently sort items into the correct material stream.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The magnificent seven icons of recycling. (Anyone know a community that actually recycles 7?)</em></div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Design: Create DfD Concepts</b></div>
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<u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The User(s) Experience</u>: "Think it all the way through. Visualize or simulate the steps to repair or disassemble the product." says Travis of Lunar. It's taking your Human Factors skills and applying them to the process of disassembly.<br />
Every product has many "users": the manufacturing and assembly people, the consumer(s), the service tech, remanufacturing people, and recyclers. It's helpful to map these users and how the design is intended to support their goals.</div>
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<u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Provide Guidance and Accessibility</u>: Give them instructions that will never be lost - emboss or deboss indicators to guide users through disassembly - because by the time a product needs to be taken apart, the user manual is likely gone.</div>
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Snaps are beneficial because they eliminate screws, but can be invisible and frustrating if there are no indicators revealing their location. Common tools and fasteners are recommended to ease and streamline disassembly. Products that are difficult to repair or disassemble will be pitched by consumers and shunned by remanufacturing.</div>
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<u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Design for easy repair + provide access to parts</u>: If it can be worn out, it will need to be replaced, and the design should support that. Batteries, moving components, contact areas are all examples of parts that will need replacement at some point. The challenge is two-fold: make it easy to replace, and make the parts accessible for purchased through a website or reseller. If these two factors aren't considered, the life of the product is severely limited.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Achille Castiglioni's tool-less method of replacing a watchband on the AL6021 watch.</em></div>
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<u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Finding Efficiencies</u>: Sometimes the best DfD solution is to eliminate or consolidate parts. Hewlett Packard's Notebook Division started by reducing the number of parts involved with packaging. "We noticed the number of boxes, manuals, and the foam components that came with a single laptop, and found ways to replace them with alternatives or eliminate them altogether," comments Stacy Wolff, Director of Notebook Design at HP. Foam blocks were replaced with paper pulp shells, with formed compartments to separate the different components and eliminate additional boxes. The user manuals were replaced by a two-gigabyte SD card, which could be re-used with any SD compatible device. Another notebook design produced for Walmart replaced box packaging with a messenger bag-style computer case.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The HP laptop bag packaging eliminated several boxes, bags and foam from each computer shipped.</em></div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Post-Design</b><br />
It's the user testing that few take the time for, but needs to happen: asking users, remanufacturing lines, and recycling operations "How would you dispose of this?" By confronting the mortality of an object, designers can learn how their decisions impact the end-of-life result. Turn that feedback into goals to share with the DfD team.</div>
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World-changing design doesn't happen overnight. Instead things evolve incrementally to create a higher standard. Design for disassembly (DfD) is fundamental to improving the cost, quality and longevity of what we produce. DfD delivers on our promise to provide people with better tools for living for years to come.</div>
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Special Thanks to Phil Berry (Sustainable Product Works), Travis Lee (Lunar), Jose Wyszogrod (Honda R+D Americas), Stacy Wolff (Hewlett Packard), and Scott Charon (Herman Miller) for sharing their experiences and insights.</div>
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Web Resources: <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/12/the_makers_bill_of_rights.html%3Cbr%20/%3E" style="color: #a2584e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The Maker's Bill of Rights</a>, <a href="http://www.ecolect.net/" style="color: #a2584e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Ecolect's catalog of materials</a> <a href="http://www.lunar.com/fieldguide.html" style="color: #a2584e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Lunar's Field Guide to Sustainability</a>, <a href="http://bestbuy.com/recycling" style="color: #a2584e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Best Buys Electronics Recovery Program</a>.</div>
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Print Resources: <a href="http://www.idsa.org/WHATSNEW/SECTIONS/ECOSECTION/okala.html" style="color: #a2584e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Okala: learning ecological design</a> by Philip White, Steve Belletire, Louis St. Pierre; <a href="http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/sustainable-design" style="color: #a2584e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Design is the Problem</a> by Nathan Shedroff; Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart; Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins; Design for the Real World by Victor Papanek; and The Green Imperative by Victor Papanek</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Alex Diener is the Creative Director/Sketchbook Fanatic at Pensar, a design and engineering consultancy that develops compelling consumer, medical, and industrial technology products. Prior to his work at Pensar, he worked for Ziba and SonoSite Ultrasound developing intuitive technology products and experiences. When not in rainy Seattle, you'll find him at the racetracks of Japan.</em></div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Research + Pics + Editing by Kristin Will, a Senior Industrial Designer/Observationist at Pensar. In the past, She's also worked for Mixer Group and Lucent Medical Systems creating consumer and medical technology that drives to the heart of user's needs, wants, and desires.</em></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #111111; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.meredithaddy.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #111111; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="http://www.meredithaddy.com">M.Addy</a></span><span style="font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">February 6, 2010 8:08 PM</span></span><span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;">Great article! </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;">My favorite product/container made for disassembly is the Smints' container (http://www.smint.com/). It's only two pieces, yet it works so well.</span></div>
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Also, one that I have love since the 80's is the Pop Swatch (similar to the watch above).</div>
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<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #111111; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">bhabicht</span><span style="font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">February 10, 2010 2:43 AM</span></span><span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;">only if products were as returnable as soda cans</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #111111; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.orb-design.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #111111; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="http://www.orb-design.com">Philip White</a></span><span style="font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">February 11, 2010 11:55 AM</span></span><span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;">This is a fairly thorough list of the usual design for disassembly </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;">guidelines that has been around for almost two decades. Before such DfD guidelines are adopted, it is important to know some of their practical and economic limitations.</span></div>
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A challenging part for designers is estimating the time required or manual disassembly, human identification of materials and human movement to the correct "bin". In some cases this can happen quickly; in other casers is very time consuming. In the latter cases, the cost of the labor is much greater than the economic value of the materials and the process is not<br />
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There is a weight limit on parts to which such DfD rules apply - usually around 5 grams for plastics - more or less. Certainly less for precious metals - and more for commodity plastics. This is a crucial point that designers often misunderstand and that needs to be included in such lists of DfD guidelines.</div>
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Further, increasingly, once valuable and toxic materials have been removed from an assembly using labor intensive methods, the remaining assembly is mechanically shred and machines sort the material fragments into respective streams, somewhat like mining processes. This is increasingly occurring in Europe under the WEEE.</div>
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thank you,<br />
Philip White</div>
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<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #111111; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.pixmac.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #111111; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="http://www.pixmac.com/">Cathy Mason</a></span><span style="font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">February 21, 2010 11:22 PM</span></span><span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;">Great article! I love the Swatch too!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #111111; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Adam</span><span style="font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">February 25, 2010 4:59 PM</span></span><span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;">This sounds exactly like the ideas William McDonough and Michael Braungart outlined in their book Cradle to Cradle.</span></div>
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Also, bhabicht, as they point out in Cradle to Cradle, aluminum cans aren't really that great to recycle. The tops, and I believe the bottoms, of soda cans are made from a different alloy than the rest of the can. So when they're melted down together, as is usually the case, they create an inferior alloy that can't be used for either part of a can again.</div>
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<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #111111; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.bolis.com/amillar" rel="nofollow" style="color: #111111; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="http://www.bolis.com/amillar">Alan Millar</a></span><span style="font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">February 25, 2010 5:42 PM</span></span><span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;">As to recycling plastic type "7": unfortunately, there is no such plastic. Rather, it is a semi-useless designation which only means "not 1 through 6". However, by looking past the number to find the individual plastic types, you can find many examples of recycling.</span></div>
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ABS plastic is used extensively in consumer products and industry, such as housings for electronics and appliances. TVs, monitors, DVD players, blenders, telephones, you name it: nearly all large rigid plastic molded household items are ABS. It has a large recycling industry, with computers and electronics being a big focus in recent years.</div>
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PLA (poly-lactic acid) is a newly-popular plastic being touted as biodegradable or compostable. While it won't break down in your garden, it can be composted in an industrial process. Many street food vendors in Portland Oregon provide PLA spoons and forks, and have compost collection bins for food scraps, paper plates, and PLA utensils next to the garbage bin.</div>
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<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #111111; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Jan</span><span style="font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">February 28, 2010 12:32 AM</span></span><span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;">I found this site that has a free download on DfD. It has a technology called Active Disassembly which appears a more advanced eco technology.</span></div>
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http://www.activedisassembly.com/guidelines/ADR_050202_DFD-guidelines.pdf</div>
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<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #111111; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Grumpy designer</span><span style="font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">March 1, 2010 5:22 PM</span></span><span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;">If we will design for DfD, the end product will be too expensive.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;">Recycling this recycling that, design will not change the world, as one clever person said, if you want to make the change stop talking about it and make the change. Green this green that, global warming is just loads of ........</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #111111; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Not-so-grumpy designer</span><span style="font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">March 24, 2010 10:49 AM</span></span><span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;">Grumpy Designer brings up some good points.</span></div>
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Short term thinking is expensive; whereas long term thinking amortizes cost and puts more money into your pocket. If the parts are going to be designed, shouldn't they be designed well?<br />
DFD may not be appropriate for everything, but it's principles can improve most products.</div>
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You're correct, design itself will not change the world.<br />
People with open-minds change the world.</div>
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This guide is not an opinion piece on green design (or global warming), but rather recommendations to assist designers and engineers in changing the product development processes with the goal of reducing materials, labor, and improving product longevity.</div>
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I'm making changes in the way I design products because I'm sick of mediocrity. Are you?</div>
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<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #111111; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.coroflot.com/noes" rel="nofollow" style="color: #111111; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="http://www.coroflot.com/noes">noes</a></span><span style="font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">June 2, 2010 6:55 AM</span></span><span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;">Really liked the article. </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;">Check out mine: http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_file.asp?from_url=true&portfolio_id=3667218&individual_id=126772</span></div>
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Almost two years and still a prototype. I even created a strategy for a full life support of this design.</div>
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... and recycling ... I don't think its really "green" :)</div>
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<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #111111; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://amit-cohen.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #111111; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="http://amit-cohen.com">Amit Cohen</a></span><span style="font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">August 18, 2010 3:54 AM</span></span><span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;">Interesting concepts.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;">I never thought about it, but its only make sens.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;">The auto-motor industry should implement this concept in the engine design.</span></div>
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Amit.</div>
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Dr. Joseph Chiodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364222160445503418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2910264617898036643.post-25647733560538537972014-04-30T11:29:00.000-07:002014-04-30T11:29:00.639-07:00IDSA: Design for DisassemblyIDSA: Design for Disassembly<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Design for disassembly (DfD) is a technical topic that often misunderstood. Designers and engineers often assume that design for disassembly means design for manual disassembly (disassembly with hand tools). Some products will be entirely manually disassembled at end of life. Some will be entirely shred in material shredders (like automobile shredders), after which the materials will be sorted by sorting equipment. Many products will be partially manually disassembled (to remove valuable, toxic or large mono-material parts). Some DfD design guidelines apply to all products and subassemblies, regardless of whether they will be shred or manually disassembled. Assemblies that will be manually disassembled are subject to manual DfD guidelines.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This technical paper outlines considerations of design for manual disassembly.</span><br />
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Editor’s note:</strong> <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is an excerpt from “Design Is the Problem,” the latest book by Nathan Shedroff, chair of the MBA in Design Strategy program at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Contrary to the book’s title, Shedroff presents practical, specific and executable solutions to designing for sustainability, covering topics from biomimicry and life cycle analysis to dematerialization.</em></div>
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Recycling is an important tenant of sustainability, but in order to be effective, products need to be easily disassembled into component parts and separated by material. If this is difficult, these products simply end up in the landfill instead.</div>
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The worst parts, in terms of recycling, are those made from two different materials bonded together, because they can’t be easily separated. The Cradle to Cradle framework designates these as “monstrous hybrids.” A good example of this type of hybrid would be milk and juice cartons that come with circular pour spouts and caps built into the side. The plastic cap and spout can’t be recycled with the waxed cardboard, and yet there are no easy ways for recyclers to separate these quickly. While this design is particularly convenient for some users, it makes recycling nearly impossible (a good example of opposing goals). The only way to recycle these is for users to cut the plastic spout from the rest of the container before placing them both in a recycling bin.</div>
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Likewise, most modern clothing presents a particular challenge since so much of it is blended from natural and artificial fibers. That shirt with 80 percent cotton and 20 percent rayon can’t be recycled in either compost or recycling bins. Currently, it can only go into the trash bin (and, thus, the landfill) since we have no economical way of separating the two materials.</div>
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The next most difficult materials to recycle are products that can’t be taken apart easily (therefore, they go into the trash instead of being recycled). Any product with parts that are bonded together or sealed so that they can’t be disassembled at all are not going to be recycled. Likewise, products assembled with complex assemblies or requiring custom or multiple tools aren’t likely to be recycled either. If it takes too long for workers to disassemble, they just won’t do it. In addition, these same products likely won’t get repaired often (or ever) for the same reason, which makes them difficult to endure or reuse. Design for disassembly is often the same as design for assembly. Improvements that designers and engineers make toward the end goal of ease of disassembling a product often take into account – and improve – how that product is assembled in the first place.</div>
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It’s not too difficult to design more easily disassembled products when it’s part of the initial phase of the design specification and goals. However, once engineering, design and production are already checked, it’s nearly impossible to redesign for easy disassembly.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pure-material parts:</strong> These are parts made from only one material that doesn’t need to be separated. For most products, it’s unlikely that the whole product can be made from the same material, but if a product’s parts are at least uni-material, then each can be recycled easily.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fewer parts:</strong> Where possible and applicable, reducing the number of parts can reduce the time and cost of disassembly and also affect the overall environmental impact of potentially reducing the amount of materials used.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Batteries and other electronics that are easy to remove:</strong> These components are often the most hazardous in terms of toxic chemicals, and they should be separated from the rest of the waste stream as early as possible. Ideally, they should be recycled separately, which isn’t possible if users can’t pull them out of the product easily.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Standardized fasteners:</strong> Have you ever tried to assemble a piece of furniture or tried to repair an electronic product only to find that there were many different fasteners used through the product? It sometimes feels like each bolt or screw has a unique length, size, and head configuration needing a unique tool to deal with each. While this is often a deterrent on the part of the manufacturer to prevent users from repairing their own products, it also increases the complexity (and likelihood to mistakes) in terms of assembly and repair for the manufacturer too. This is just one of the many other benefits that standardization can create.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Accessible fasteners:</strong> Anyone who has ever tried to change the oil filter on a typical small car, or a fuse in just about any car, knows the pain involved when parts aren’t easily accessible. There’s no reason why this is the case except that their developers simply didn’t consider putting these parts in more accessible places. The same is true of fasteners. Even if you’ve standardized and reduced the number of fasteners in a product, if you don’t make them accessible, the parts will likely not be separated or recycled. Making any metal fasteners magnetic can both ease disassembly and increase the likelihood that the fasteners themselves will be recovered for reuse or recycling.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Standardized components:</strong> Standardization can make components easier to replace and repair. It can help products be more easily used and understood, as well as upgraded. Most electronics would not be possible without a vast number of standards for everything from hard-drive sizes to file formats to transistor connectors and power outlets. Modular components can extend this technique to make products more easily understood, used, serviced, repaired, and ultimately recycled.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No fasteners:</strong> Sometimes, cases and components can be designed to clip together without the need for fasteners like screws. For example, many mobile phone cases (like those for the Nokia 6200) do this to allow a plethora of third-party custom case designs. The Macintosh IIcx and IIci family excelled in this respect as well. Hard drives, fans, power supply, motherboard, and other components simply snapped into place with plastic tabs molded into the case itself. These bent just enough to allow them to be held aside for the components to be removed. Parts can be glued or bonded, but only where they are recyclable together because they are identical materials.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Part material labels:</strong> No matter how the parts are assembled or how easily disassembled, if the materials for each aren’t immediately identifiable, they won’t be recycled. Recyclers can’t take many chances in contaminating their material streams. If they don’t know that the part is a specific type of plastic or alloy of aluminum, for example, they won’t throw it in the right bin. Instead, they’ll usually divert it to the trash or to the shredder (where it may get contaminated even more, requiring it to be further downcycled). Each part should be clearly marked with an internationally understood label or icon declaring what it is. If some parts are just to tiny (like screws), they should all be made of the same material (so someone could safely assume that they’re all the same material). If a part is made from an unexpected material or a material that looks like something else, this is even more critical. Metals that use alloys (like aluminum cases) should also be labeled by the alloy. It’s not enough to just say “glass” or “aluminum” if it’s a special kind that shouldn’t be mixed with others. There are several commonly understood labels and indicators for just these purposes. For example, the most commonly occurring plastics use a series of seven numbers within a recycling symbol (how’s that for clear?). This system, though less common, extends to glass, metals, batteries and other materials.</div>
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Dr. Joseph Chiodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364222160445503418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2910264617898036643.post-43423213787902342402014-04-16T20:52:00.000-07:002014-04-28T18:47:45.056-07:00DfD example: Timberland<br />
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Making quality boots and shoes is our business. Unfortunately, our business is not without its impacts . That’s why we focus on ways to create our products with processes and materials that cause less harm to the environment.</div>
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Making shoes with better materials—organic cotton, recycled PET, recycled rubber—is a great step towards reducing our carbon footprint as a business. But at Timberland, that’s exactly what we see it as—a step.</div>
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Our main goal as a responsible company is to create <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Cradle-to-Cradle”</em> products. But what exactly does that mean? A term created by <a class="inline-link" href="http://mbdc.com/detail.aspx?linkid=1&sublink=6" style="border: none; color: #a68177; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry">McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry</a>, cradle-to-cradle means that we’re striving to design, produce and sell products that are made with the smallest possible footprint and never get thrown away. Our shoes will be repairable and eventually, every material in all of our boots, shoes and sandals will—when they’ve reached the end of there useful lives—be able to be recycled.</div>
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Timberland’s Design for Disassembly (DFD) shoes are part of our Earthkeepers<sup style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 6.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">®</sup> line, which represents our best attempt at reducing environmental impacts through good design and pursuing our cradle-to-cradle goal.</div>
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Timberland’s DFD boot significantly improves on earlier all-leather Earthkeepers<sup style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 6.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">®</sup> boots by using fewer materials and more recycled content. In fact, comparing these boots with the same number of original Earthkeepers<sup style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 6.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">®</sup> boots, we save approximately 500 metric tons of carbon emissions. This reduction represents the same amount of energy and heating we use during a three-month time period at our global headquarters in New Hampshire.</div>
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For a sample size run of 40,000 boots, the original Earthkeepers<sup style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 6.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">®</sup>boots used about six metric tons of recycled content, whereas the second-generation DFD boot incorporates almost 12 metric tons of recycled or renewable material.</div>
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Our DFD boot has the potential to be recycled to a much greater degree than other footwear, based on its design, keeping even more materials out of landfills. And if the boots are returned to Timberland, we estimate being able to recycle at least 50% of the materials in our own factory in the Dominican Republic.</div>
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While we’re not where we want to be yet, every season our designers and value chain team get closer, discovering and developing new ways to design and build footwear in better, more sustainable ways.</div>
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One of the best parts is that consumers are on board. Earthkeepers<sup style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 6.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">®</sup> products have become a big part of our growth strategy, and consumers are buying responsible products, which is contributing to Timberland’s bottom line results.</div>
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Dr. Joseph Chiodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364222160445503418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2910264617898036643.post-51349144187309073262014-04-07T08:18:00.000-07:002014-04-26T18:59:21.726-07:00PhoneBloks: in more detail<br />
This post has been taken from <a href="http://www.dezeen.com/2013/10/19/phonebloks-mobile-phone-concept-by-dave-hakkens" target="_blank">here, DeZeen</a>.<br />
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Stay tuned for the next post where we will investigate examples of this getting much closer to market than you think!<br />
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"I put the video online and in the first 24 hours I had like one million views on YouTube," <a href="http://www.davehakkens.nl/" style="color: #6c6e95; text-decoration: none;">Hakkens</a> told Dezeen. "I got a lot of responses to it."</div>
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Dutch designer Hakkens, who graduated from <a href="http://www.designacademy.nl/" style="color: #6c6e95; text-decoration: none;">Design Academy Eindhoven</a>this summer, presented his <a href="http://www.phonebloks.com/" style="color: #6c6e95; text-decoration: none;">Phonebloks</a> concept at the academy's graduation show in Eindhoven today at the start of <a href="http://www.dutchdesignweek.nl/" style="color: #6c6e95; text-decoration: none;">Dutch Design Week</a>.</div>
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Phonebloks is a concept for a phone made of swappable components that fit together like Lego, with each component containing a different function. This means that components can be replaced or upgraded without having to throw away the phone.</div>
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"Usually a phone is integrated into one solid block and if one part gets broken you have to throw away the entire phone," said Hakkens. "But this has different components, so if your battery is broken you can replace the the battery or if you need a better camera you only upgrade the camera component. So you don't throw away the entire phone; you keep the good stuff."</div>
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Last month Hakkens uploaded a video explaining the concept to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDAw7vW7H0c" style="color: #6c6e95; text-decoration: none;">YouTube</a>, where it went viral and has now been watched over 16 million times.</div>
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He then put the idea on "crowdspeaking" site <a href="https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/2931-phonebloks" style="color: #6c6e95; text-decoration: none;">Thunderclap</a>, where instead of donating money, supporters donate their social reach. He now has over 900,000 supporters on the site, and when the campaign closes on 29 October a message about Phonebloks will automatically be sent to each supporters' social media contacts, giving Hakkens a total audience of over 360 million people.</div>
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Hakkens said: "That's the whole point of this idea; to generate lots of buzz so companies see there's a huge market and realise they really need to make a phone like this."</div>
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The Phonebloks concept features electronic blocks that snap onto a base board, which links all the components. Two small screws lock everything together. Users can choose components from their favourite brands or make their own modules.</div>
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"You can customise your phone, replacing the storage block with a larger battery if you store everything in the cloud, or replace advanced components you don't need with basic blocks like a bigger speaker," says the video explaining the concept.</div>
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Hakkens hopes Phonebloks will lead to fewer phones being thrown away, thereby reducing waste. "Electronic devices are not designed to last," the video says. "This makes electronic waste one of the fastest-growing waste streams in the world and our phone is one of the biggest causes."</div>
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<b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dave Hakkens:</b> Phonebloks is a phone made to upgrade and repair; it's a phone worth keeping. Usually we throw it away after a couple of years. But this one is made to last.</div>
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<b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Marcus Fairs:</b> How is it made to last?</div>
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<b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dave Hakkens:</b> Usually a phone is integrated into one solid block, and if one part gets broken you have to throw away the entire phone. But this has different components, so if for instance only your battery is broken you can replace the the battery, or if it's slow after a couple of years you can change just the speed component. If you need a better camera you only upgrade the camera component. So in this way you don't throw away the entire phone; you keep the good stuff.</div>
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<b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Marcus Fairs:</b> Tell us how it went viral.</div>
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<b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dave Hakkens:</b> The idea with this whole project is I'm just one guy at the Design Academy; I can't make this phone by myself. I can go to a lot of companies and pitch, ask them if they'd like to make my phone, but I thought I'd do it the other way around; so I gathered a lot of people who told companies they really wanted this phone. So I put this video online and in the first 24 hours I had like one million views on YouTube. I also gathered supporters so currently I have 900,000 supporters, and they all just wanted this phone. So now I have all this attention and I get a lot of nice emails from companies who want to work on this.</div>
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<b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dave Hakkens:</b> You have this site called Thunderclap. On Thunderclap instead of crowdfunding you crowdspeak people; people don't donate money but instead they donate their friends and family. You say you're interested in a project and want to support it, so you donate your friends - their Facebook followers and Twitter followers - and on the 29 October automatically a message is sent out by those people saying "We want Phonebloks". That spreads to all their friends and families. So currently I have like 900,000 supporters but on 29 October we will reach 300 million people. So that's the whole point of this idea; to generate lots of buzz so companies see there's a huge market and realise they really need to make a phone like this.</div>
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<b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Marcus Fairs:</b> What is the next step?</div>
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<b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dave Hakkens:</b> My idea succeeded from day one; I got a lot of responses to it. I've got a lot of people interested in developing it: engineers, technicians and companies. So right now I'm thinking what would be a logical next step. Crowdsource it on the internet? Work together with a company? That's what I'm thinking about now; how to realise the phone the best way.</div>
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Dr. Joseph Chiodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364222160445503418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2910264617898036643.post-85003401686334399732014-02-28T12:30:00.000-08:002014-04-26T19:00:14.982-07:00Phonebloks <h2>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This can be considered a mastery of 'Design for Modules' (DfMod). This is a great example of 'Design for Disassembly' (DfD) Concept. If this can make the market, this will be a great interpretation of Eco-Design.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The original posting was in Sept, 2013:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A new website has recently been introduced:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">https://phonebloks.com/en</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And more recently, end of Oct 2013,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">So excited to see what the future brings!</span><br />
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Dr. Joseph Chiodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364222160445503418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2910264617898036643.post-11275616574640298092013-11-02T23:11:00.000-07:002014-04-26T19:00:44.003-07:00Ellen Macarthur Foundation & The art of design for disassemblyThis is a good introduction to 'Design for Disassembly' (DfD) and the 'Circular Economy' (CE) from an article written by Colin Wester at the Ellen Macarthur Foundation:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://designfordisassembly.blogspot.ca/2012/05/laptop-disassembly-as-complex-as-they.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a> consisted of dismantling of the major components that made up the product architecture on the bottom half of the laptop. <a href="http://designfordisassembly.blogspot.ca/2012/05/laptop-disassembly-as-complex-as-they.html" target="_blank">Photos 1 - 12</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://designfordisassembly.blogspot.ca/2012/05/laptop-disassembly-as-complex-as-they_25.html" target="_blank">Part 2 </a> consisted of the start of the dismantling of the subassembly components. I emphasize "start". <a href="http://designfordisassembly.blogspot.ca/2012/05/laptop-disassembly-as-complex-as-they_25.html" target="_blank">Photos 13 - 29</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">See all of these photos <a href="http://www.activedisassembly.com/laptop-disassembly-complex-as-they-get-part-2/" target="_blank">(1 - 37)</a> in high definition in a matrix at <a href="http://www.activedisassembly.com/laptop-disassembly-complex-as-they-get-part-2/" target="_blank">www.ActiveDisassembly.com.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Part 3, below, </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">consists of continuing on with the </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">dismantling of the subassembly components. Images 30 - 37 described below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">30. Outside casing: close-up of upper control board with speaker grill panel</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">31. Outside casing: close-up of upper control board with speaker grill panel and main keyboard removed</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">32. Outside casing and keyboard: base portion of laptop, upside down, view of inside of the top of the top cover of that laptop base (opposite of where the keyboard sits).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">33. Outside casing and keyboard: base portion of laptop, upside down, view of inside of the top of the top cover of that laptop base (opposite of where the keyboard sits). Components in tact including copper heat transfer, main PCB, fan, volume and media control PCB etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">34. Laptop base: close-up of top right where volume and media control of upper control board sit with speaker grill panel (and main keyboard) removed</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">36. USB, speaker and mic input board: from underneath of top portion of base, front right</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">26. (Recap) Bottom assembly, components dismantled and removed parts shown separated, parts from above photos:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> 26.1 Panels removed and exposing under carriage (center and left)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> - upper control board and speaker grill panel (right)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> ~ disk drive (top right)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> ~ main PCB (middle) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> - hard drive (top left of PCB main assembly)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> - bottom plastic cover of laptop (left: gray rectangular plastic molded)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> - hard drive panel (top middle left)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> - memory card panel (bottom middle left)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1. (1st photo again)
Note the original product.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Some of these are the same components (from Part 1) removed and separated from each other with their subassemblies taken apart. This is just for the bottom portion of the laptop. After many dismantling efforts, to recap:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- Time in Part 1, average was <b><a href="http://designfordisassembly.blogspot.ca/2012/05/laptop-disassembly-as-complex-as-they.html" target="_blank">3min</a></b>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- Time in Part 2: <b>5min. </b>As in <a href="http://designfordisassembly.blogspot.ca/2012/05/laptop-disassembly-as-complex-as-they.html" target="_blank">Part 1.</a>, this is mainly due to the amount of machine screws and complexity. I had the proper tools and 2 power drills with correct bits in place. To get consistently under 5min would require mechanized or robotic systems. Alternatively DfD and <a href="http://www.activedisassembly.com/" target="_blank">www.ActiveDisassembly.com</a>, which could do it in fractions of a second with batch processing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- Time here in Part 3, average was <b><a href="http://designfordisassembly.blogspot.ca/2012/05/laptop-disassembly-as-complex-as-they.html" target="_blank">3min</a></b>. As in above, the similar parameters apply. If you want specific times, see there many publications on it. There are 100s on:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.activedisassembly.com/publications/" target="_blank">www.ActiveDisassembly.com</a> (publications) related to this topic and future technology in 'Design for Disassembly; (DfD).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Conclusions (similar issues as in <a href="http://designfordisassembly.blogspot.ca/2012/05/laptop-disassembly-as-complex-as-they.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a> and <a href="http://designfordisassembly.blogspot.ca/2012/05/laptop-disassembly-as-complex-as-they_25.html" target="_blank">Part 2</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- too many screws (dozens), more than in <a href="http://designfordisassembly.blogspot.ca/2012/05/laptop-disassembly-as-complex-as-they.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a>, in this next level of dismantling</span></div>
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- too time-consuming and complex for repair (PCB and battery pack etc.)</div>
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- too time-consuming for upgrade (memory board, hard drive etc.) </div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Even with numerous snap fits, they were breakable and at times required cracking of the assembly in order to open parts apart. Overlapping of components was still somewhat minimal as in <a href="http://designfordisassembly.blogspot.ca/2012/05/laptop-disassembly-as-complex-as-they.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a>. There are still many insulating materials mixed in with others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I will go into the next level of detail in subsequent posts. In the next post, I'll look inot the LCD sub-assembly.</span></div>
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<br />Dr. Joseph Chiodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364222160445503418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2910264617898036643.post-46453574358988220072012-05-25T12:52:00.000-07:002013-05-29T09:51:05.510-07:00Laptop Disassembly - As complex as they get. Part 2<br />
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components that made up the product architecture on the bottom half of the
laptop. This post will be a start of the dismantling of the subassembly
components. I emphasize "start".<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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from each other with their subassemblies taken apart. This is just for the
bottom portion of the laptop. After many dismantling efforts:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- Time in Part 1, average was <b><a href="http://designfordisassembly.blogspot.ca/2012/05/laptop-disassembly-as-complex-as-they.html" target="_blank">3min</a></b>. I could have been exact to the second, but in reality, it would vary. If you want specific times, see there many publications on it. There are 100s on:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- Time here in Part 2: </span></span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px;">5min. </b><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">As in <a href="http://designfordisassembly.blogspot.ca/2012/05/laptop-disassembly-as-complex-as-they.html" target="_blank">Part 1.</a>, this is mainly due to the
amount of machine screws and complexity. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">I had the proper tools and 2 power drills with correct bits in place. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">To get consistently under 5min would require mechanized or robotic systems. Alternatively DfD and </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.activedisassembly.com/" target="_blank">www.ActiveDisassembly.com</a>, which could do it in fractions of a second with batch processing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- too many screws (dozens), more than in <a href="http://designfordisassembly.blogspot.ca/2012/05/laptop-disassembly-as-complex-as-they.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a>, in this next level of dismantling</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">- under spec polymer casings (warping, cracking and wear)</span></div>
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In the next post, <span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I'll finish the bottom half macro disassembly of its subassemblies.</span></span></span></div>
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</span>Dr. Joseph Chiodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364222160445503418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2910264617898036643.post-90141973298196899242012-05-22T23:16:00.000-07:002013-05-29T09:51:18.051-07:00Laptop Disassembly - As complex as they get.<div style="text-align: justify;">
I've taken 1000s of electronics apart in the last 20 years. These have all been the subject of 'Design for Disassembly' (DfD) study, from windup watches, automobiles to almost every time of electronic product you can think of.</div>
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This time, it's time to take apart the most complex laptop I've ever attempted. I'm going to analyze the parts and then model them and re-design it. I'll write up the development and apply a variety of 'Design for X' (DfX) strategies to it. I'll apply this same model to other products.</div>
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4. <span style="text-align: center;">Outside casing: upper keyboard control panel removed</span>
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5. Bottom casing: Removable panels and components removed:<br />
5.1 Battery pack spring clip and lock unsnapped open<br />
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5.2 Hard drive panel unscrewed and unhinged<br />
- x1 machine screw, simple 3-pronged hinge and 5 snap fit release<br />
5.3 Memory card panel unscrewed and unhinged<br />
- x1 machine screw, simple 3-pronged hinge and 8 snap fit release release<br />
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6. U<span style="text-align: center;">pper control board and speaker grill panel:</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"> 6.1 Panel removed</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"> - x24 snap fits</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"> - x4 female brass captive bolts </span><br />
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7. Under u<span style="text-align: center;">pper control board and speaker grill panel:</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"> 7.1 Panel removed exposing</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"> - speaker</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"> - manual volume controls</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"> - mode controls</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"> - power button (just under Speaker)</span><br />
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8. Under top PCB assembly, components still fastened but removed parts shown separated, parts from above photos<span style="text-align: center;">:</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"> 8.1 Panels removed and exposing under carriage<br /> - </span>u<span style="text-align: center;">pper control board and speaker grill panel (top)</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"> - mainboard: </span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"> ~ disk drive (top left)</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"> ~ fan (top right)</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"> ~ main PCB (middle)</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"> ~</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">connection board</span><span style="text-align: center;"> (bottom left - green upside down 'L' under disk drive)</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"> - </span><span style="text-align: center;">hard drive </span><span style="text-align: center;">(bottom left of PCB main assembly)</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"> - bottom plastic cover of laptop (large silver rectangular plastic molded)<br /> - b</span>attery pack (bottom)<br />
- hard drive panel (bottom right )<br />
- memory card panel (bottom left)<br />
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9. Outside of b<span style="text-align: center;">ottom plastic cover of laptop</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"> - all pieces separated</span></div>
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10. Under m<span style="text-align: center;">ainboard close-up: </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"> - disk drive (top left)</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"> -</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">fan (top right)</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"> -</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">main PCB (middle)</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"> -</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">connection board</span><span style="text-align: center;"> (bottom left - green upside down 'L' under disk drive)</span></div>
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11. Inside of b<span style="text-align: center;">ottom plastic cover of laptop</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"> - all parts removed</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">12. H</span><span style="text-align: center;">ard drive </span><span style="text-align: center;"></span>
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<span style="text-align: center;">These are all the main components removed and separated from each other. The first time you disassemble the laptop it obviously takes a bit of time to get used to. After a lot of practice:</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">- Time: <b>3min</b>. </span>This is mainly due to the amount of machine screws and complexity. It would be difficult to get under this 3min as I had the proper tools and 2 power drills with correct bits in place.</div>
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Conclusions</div>
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Design issues:</div>
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- too many screws (dozens)</div>
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- too many snap fits that break (dozens), snap fits are still preferable to screws.</div>
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- non-obvious disassembly </div>
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- mixed materials</div>
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- complexity</div>
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- brass captain bolts molded into injection molding</div>
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- nonstandardized screws</div>
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- under spec polymer casings (warping, cracking and wear)</div>
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- glued labels</div>
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- too time-consuming and complex for repair (PCB and battery pack etc.)</div>
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- too time-consuming for upgrade (memory board, hard drive etc.) </div>
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Some care in design had been taken into account since there were snap fits in places where previous designs might have had more screws and mixed material hinges. Overlapping of components was somewhat minimal. There were, however, various insulating materials mixed in with other smaller, break to snap off components. I will go into further detail in subsequent posts.</div>
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In the next post, I will disassemble the components' subassemblies.<br />
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Dr. Joseph Chiodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364222160445503418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2910264617898036643.post-45659501346655707452012-05-18T07:25:00.003-07:002013-05-29T09:51:36.256-07:00Design for Disassembly Chair<br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A rather good idea! This one by Javier
Mariscal of Ecole Parsons a Paris. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://cultureofdesign.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/design-for-disassembly-by-andrea-dahlen/">http://cultureofdesign.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/design-for-disassembly-by-andrea-dahlen/</a><span style="color: #9d9d9d; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dr. Joseph Chiodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364222160445503418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2910264617898036643.post-77811155064893176002012-05-06T22:17:00.001-07:002013-05-29T09:56:03.475-07:00Design for Disassembly - 1st Blog: Ever!<h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Design for Disassembly </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">& Eco-Design enthusiasts</span></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There are valid reasons to recycle our electronics. And not necessarily for environmental reasons. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">May 2012, story from msnbc: Fort Worth Texas</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Fastest growing segment of recycling: e-cycling in USA</span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">EPA </span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">over 3M tons every year</span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of that, only 430,000 are recycled as of 2012</span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">leaving over 2.5M tons go to landfill</span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Universal Recycling</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nbc-news/47227632" target="_blank">http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nbc-news/47227632</a>/</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But, it can get even more complicated that the list above! Here's a start:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.raremetalblog.com/2012/05/chinas-rare-earth-stance-proving-a-complex-issue.html" target="_blank">http://www.raremetalblog.com/2012/05/chinas-rare-earth-stance-proving-a-complex-issue.html</a>
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