Sustainable Disassembly
Project description
As the global focus intensifies on sustainability and environmental responsibility, the importance of designing products with their end-of-life in mind has become increasingly evident. Sustainable disassembly — the process of taking apart products in a way that facilitates reuse, remanufacturing, recycling, and environmentally responsible disposal — has emerged as a critical concept within sustainable product design.
This project explores the principles, challenges, and innovations associated with sustainable disassembly. It aims to provide insights into how industries can implement disassembly strategies that reduce environmental impact, improve material recovery, and align with circular economy objectives. By investigating current methods, tools, and case studies, the report underscores the role of disassembly planning in creating more sustainable production and consumption systems.
Context
The company which has provided this project is called Logicall and it is a one-stop-shop logistics provider, offering supply chain solutions, air and ocean freight forwarding, warehousing & fulfilment, parcel management, road transport and technical services”. It provides many services, one of which is the distribution of and installation of network and media devices such as modems, routers and tv-boxes. Logicall also provides disassembly, testing and refurbishment services for these products, surrounding itself along the long lifecycle such products endure. Logicall now wants to increase the lifetime of devices, specifically of routers, modems, and TV-boxes. This means that they would like to know how these devices can be designed and created in such a way that they can be easily refurbished and/or upgraded.
Results
This report will then be used by the stakeholder (Logicall) to inform the manufacturers of these products on how their design process can be adjusted to improve the longevity and sustainability fo their products.
About the project group
All of us come from the ICT & Technology track and collectively we have spend the past 5 months working on this project using the Agile methodology. We were all enthusiastic going into this project, thinking about the various way we could contribute to the sustainability of routers.