Smart materials use in active disassembly 2012 paper

Smart materials use in active disassembly, Can also be viewed on this blog.


Document Information:
Title: Smart materials use in active disassembly
Author(s): Joseph Chiodo, (Active Disassembly Research Ltd, London, UK), Nick Jones, (Active Disassembly Research Ltd, London, UK)
Citation: Joseph Chiodo, Nick Jones, (2012) “Smart materials use in active disassembly”, Assembly Automation, Vol. 32 Iss: 1, pp.8 – 24
Keywords: AutomationMaterials
Article type: General review
DOI: 10.1108/01445151211198683 (Permanent URL)
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Abstract: Purpose – Smart materials (SMs) have the potential for facilitating active disassembly (AD). Select SMs are used in the design of devices to aid product disassembly. The purpose of this paper is to compare different AD approaches and highlight future work and potential.
Design/methodology/approach – This work is a survey of the collated AD research employing only Smart and “made Smart” materials work from various published work in the field from companies and academia since its original invention. The introduction gives general discussion of AD with cost implications and how the technology could offer very lean dismantling. An overview of the history of the work is given with the context of the implications for the need for a technology like AD to retain critical materials.Findings – Besides a survey to date, comparisons were made of each AD technology application highlighting advantages and challenges. Comparisons were also made prior to this in alternative disassembly strategies to give context to the potential usefulness of the technology.Practical implications – Only AD with SMs or “made Smart” were highlighted with some considerations for potential candidates.

Originality/value – A survey of AD work only employing SMs and “made-Smart” materials to date. Comparisons of each AD application were made highlighting advantages and challenges. Comparisons were made between AD and alternative disassembly strategies to give context to the potential usefulness of the technology. The conclusion included an overview of work with consideration for future work. A candidate technology with the most potential was discussed.

The paper can be accessed from:

Emerald Journal: Assembly Automation, ISSN: 0144-5154

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FYI: Various related this blog:

Shape Memory Material Blog (also Smart Materials)

Design for Disassembly Blog   but it’s a cross blog topic:

 

What “could be” …. current R&D and master website:

active disassembly, Active Disassembly using Smart Materials, AD, ADSM, Dr. Joseph Chiodo, Dr. Nick Jones, Shape Memory Alloys, Shape Memory Polymer, SMA, SMP, materials ‘made-Smart’, survey, 2012

 

Laptop Disassembly: complex as they get Part 3

In the Design for Disassembly blog, I started a new laptop disassembly study. This is the third of many. The last one on this website has the entire photo set in Part 2.

After 1000s disassembly experiments over the last 20 years, what better way to investigate and hone the DfD process.
Stay tuned in the future for an unabridged ‘Design for X’ (DfX) strategy book or set of books.

Laptop photos of the first ‘DesignforDisassembly’ blog 1 and blog 2 and blog 3:

Part 3: http://designfordisassembly.blogspot.ca/2012/06/laptop-disassembly-as-complex-as-they.html

Part 2: http://designfordisassembly.blogspot.ca/2012/05/laptop-disassembly-as-complex-as-they_25.html

Part 1: http://designfordisassembly.blogspot.ca/2012/05/laptop-disassembly-as-complex-as-they.html

 

www.ActiveDisassembly.com

Dr. Joseph Chiodo

Design for Disassembly, DfD, Dr Joseph Chiodo, Laptop Disassembly, Sony, Sony Vaio, Disassembly, step-by-step disassembly

Laptop Disassembly: complex as they get

In the Design for Disassembly blog, I started a new laptop disassembly study. This will be the first of many on this study.

After 1000s disassembly experiments over the last 20 years, .I thought it would be a good time to revisit the procedure on the most complex laptop I could find. Why?  What better way  to investigate and hone the DfD process.
Stay tuned in the future for an unabridged ‘Design for X’ (DfX) strategy book or set of books.

http://designfordisassembly.blogspot.ca/2012/05/laptop-disassembly-as-complex-as-they.html

http://www.ActiveDisassembly.com

Dr. Joseph Chiodo

Active Disassembly and Nokia on Fastcompany.com

A write up from my work with Nokia. I seem to have missed this article then. The whole piece can be found here.

Directly from the piece: ARIEL SCHWARTZ | 03-14-2011

Design for Disassembly

As a detoxification strategy, design for disassembly is concerned primarily with disassembling computers and cell phones easily into their component parts in order to ensure that heavy metals do not end up in landfills.

Active disassembly is a method of disassembling products into their separate components by creating gadgets that can break apart just by being exposed to heat or magnetism. It allows for a clean, nondestructive, quick and efficient method of component separation. This saves money, and the materials can be recovered more efficiently.

Utilizing active disassembly, Nokia has created a prototype of a cell phone that dissembles itself in two seconds. Today, most cell phones and other small electronics are shredded instead of taken apart for recycling, because the disassembly time is too expensive for the amount of material reclaimed.

Nokia

My 1st attempt at blogging ever! – Design for Disassembly & Eco-Design enthusiasts

Design for Disassembly & Eco-Design Enthusiasts

http://designfordisassembly.blogspot.ca

Fastest growing segment of recycling: e-cycling in USA

&

Rare Earths making the idea of disassembly and recycling an even more complicated issue.

The Journal of Remanufacturing

This Springer Journal is accepting papers for review.

The Journal of Remanufacturing is a new academic journal dedicated to the topic areas around Remanufacturing.

See: About the Journal of Remanufacturing for details!