A Disassembly Line Design Approach for Management of End-of-Life Product Quality

The paper presents the results of the development and implementation of design approach tools for solving quality problems of new cars in operation. The generalization of the experience of the project teams in solving problems in the field of the quality of new vehicles in operation.

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APPLICATION OF THE RE-CYCLING METHOD TO SUPPORT DESIGN FOR AND FROM END-OF-LIFE.

Proceedings of the Design Society ◽

10.1017/pds.2021.51 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 511-520

Author(s):

Jorge Martínez Leal ◽

Stéphane Pompidou ◽

Carole Charbuillet ◽

Nicolas Perry

Keyword(s):

End Of Life ◽

Circular Economy ◽

Design Approach ◽

Way Of Life ◽

Support Design ◽

Innovative Design ◽

Recycled Materials ◽

Environmentally Conscious ◽

Similar Score ◽

The World

AbstractNowadays, the world is shifting towards a more sustainable way of life, and product designers have an important part in this change. They have to eco(re)design their products to make them environmentally conscious throughout their lifecycle, and especially at their end-of-life (EoL). However, one can observe that synergy between product designers and recycling-chains stakeholders is lacking, mainly due to their weak communication. While many design-for-EoL approaches coexist in the literature, design from EoL must also be taken into account to fully develop a circular economy.RE-CYCLING is an innovative design approach that supports both design for and from EoL. This paper focuses on the recycling EoL-option and the validation of the associated indicators. To validate the design-for-recycling indicators, the recyclability of three smartphones is assessed. It is expected that indicators provide a similar score as none of them was designed to be recycled; results comply with expectations. In parallel, the convenience of using recycled materials in smartphones is analysed to validate our design-from-recycling indicators. It is found that the proposed indicators can indeed support designers integrating recycled materials in products.

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Disassembly Line Planning Through the Generation of End-of-Life Handling Information from Design Files

Procedia CIRP ◽

10.1016/j.procir.2016.11.128 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 57 ◽

pp. 740-745 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

G. Pintzos ◽

M. Matsas ◽

N. Papakostas ◽

D. Mourtzis

Keyword(s):

End Of Life ◽

Line Planning ◽

Disassembly Line

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Disassembly Process Planning Under End-of-Life Product Quality

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology - Product Lifecycle Management in the Digital Twin Era ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-42250-9_31 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 325-335

Author(s):

M.-Lounes Bentaha ◽

Alexandre Voisin ◽

Pascale Marangé

Keyword(s):

Product Quality ◽

End Of Life ◽

Process Planning ◽

Disassembly Process

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Income distribution, quality differentiation and product line design

Innovative Marketing ◽

10.21511/im.13(1).2017.03 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 24-32

Author(s):

Chia-Ming Liu

Keyword(s):

Middle Class ◽

Income Distribution ◽

Product Quality ◽

Product Line ◽

Extreme Condition ◽

Product Diversity ◽

Product Line Design ◽

Quality Differentiation ◽

Line Design ◽

The Relationship

The purpose of this paper is to characterize the relationship between quality differentiation, income distribution and product line design. According to the findings, the author can explain the trend of quality differentiation and the phenomenon of extreme product diversity in different conditions of income distribution. When the middle class of consumers reach a certain critical few number, the quality for them will descend. Only the high-end and low-end quality left for this extreme condition; that is, the product quality spectrum will shrink. The product quality for middle and low class will gradually get worse and worse, even lower than original quality. The product line design will be reconsidered to the opposite extremes.

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Product-Line Design in the Presence of Consumers’ Anticipated Regret

Management Science ◽

10.1287/mnsc.2019.3506 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 66 (12) ◽

pp. 5665-5682 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Tianxin Zou ◽

Bo Zhou ◽

Baojun Jiang

Keyword(s):

Product Quality ◽

Product Line ◽

Quality Level ◽

Purchase Decisions ◽

Anticipated Regret ◽

Product Line Design ◽

Line Design ◽

Quality Difference

Consumers are often uncertain about their valuations for product quality when choosing among different products and will learn their valuations only after buying and using a product. Some consumers may thus experience overpurchase or underpurchase regret, depending on whether they have purchased a higher- or lower-quality level than what they would have chosen had they known their true valuations. When consumers anticipate their potential postpurchase regret, their purchase decisions may be affected. Our analysis shows that overpurchase regret lowers the firm’s profit, but underpurchase regret can benefit the firm if consumers’ overpurchase regret is not strong. When the firm optimally designs its product line, the quality difference between its offerings will be larger (smaller) if consumers’ anticipated regret increases (reduces) its profit. Surprisingly, although anticipated regret tends to reduce consumers’ utility, in equilibrium, the presence of anticipated regret can increase consumers’ expected surplus. We further examine when the firm should allow consumers to return their products by paying a restocking fee and how the optimal restocking fee will change with consumers’ propensities for the two types of regret. We also experimentally show that consumers’ propensities of underpurchase and overpurchase regret are different and can be influenced by the firm’s messages. This paper was accepted by Juanjuan Zhang, marketing.

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