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Environmental issues have become an imperative for most modern companies. They are under pressure on making the product development process compliant with recent green directives. Product structure is recognized as a critical factor for reducing environmental impact in product end-of-life. However, most previous studies failed to leverage the latitude at the design stage due to the assumption of a fixed product structure. We propose a CAD-supported tool that allows automatic variation of 3D product structure by combination of parts, selection of assembly method, and re-arranging the assembly sequence. A GA-based optimization scheme is developed to produce a better product structure corresponding to lower assembly/disassembly costs, while fulfilling with given recycling and recovering constraints. The results implemented in a commercial CAD system demonstrate the practicality of this work in computer-aided green product design.
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Chu, CH., Luh, YP. (2010). Computer-Aided Green Product Design Based on Product Structure Variation. In: Huang, G.Q., Mak, K.L., Maropoulos, P.G. (eds) Proceedings of the 6th CIRP-Sponsored International Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 66. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10430-5_10
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