Abstract
From an economic point of view the productivity associated with commonly available disassembly methods today seldom makes disassembly the preferred end-of-life solution for massive take back product streams. In consequence systematic reuse of parts or components, or recycling of pure material fractions are normally not achievable. Economic models demonstrate that the efficiency of disassembly operations should be increased an order of magnitude to assure the competitiveness of ecologically preferred, disassembly oriented end-of-life scenarios. Using fully automated disassembly techniques does not allow to overcome this efficiency gap if not combined with innovative reversible joints. Enhanced disassembly principles, in which external trigger signals allow to simultaneously reverse the action of multiple fasteners, forms a promising approach to low cost mass disassembly. In this paper a state-of-the-art of these emerging techniques is sketched, categorising the fasteners according to their generic applicability and the degree of imbedded automation of the triggerable disassembly activity. A number of perspectives for innovative reversible fasteners are sketched as a contribution to this promising paradigm of selfdisassembling products.
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Duflou, J., Willems, B., Dewulf, W. (2006). Towards self-disassembling products Design solutions for economically feasible large-scale disassembly. In: Brissaud, D., Tichkiewitch, S., Zwolinski, P. (eds) Innovation in Life Cycle Engineering and Sustainable Development. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4617-0_6
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