Application of intelligent analysis to identify defective vehicle components

The article shows the possibility of using intelligent analysis in a vehicle service when assessing the vehicle reliability. It was hypothesized that the use of association rules in diagnostics can increase the speed of repairs and the quality of customer service, allowing to identify the nodes that are highly likely to be faulty at the same time. For this, a knowledge base was built from the patterns obtained by applying association rules to the vehicle failure statistics. An application was implemented, which, on its basis, issues recommendations to the repair worker to check certain nodes based on the already identified defective nodes entered into the program. The proposed technique, together with the developed software tool, will optimize the diagnostic processes.

“Nothing is useless in nature”: Delhi’s repair economies and value-creation in an electronics “waste” sector

This paper follows the return of electronic waste back into commodity circuits through widespread processes of reuse, repair and remanufacturing across Delhi, India. Tracing the movements of “waste” from the scrap shop back into secondary use industries, I situate e-waste in India as operating primarily within economies of reuse and repair, rather than waste and recycling. Instead of managing waste, India’s broad reuse industries are production-based, maintaining and making new things out of a diversity of new and used materials. The production of value from used things is dependent on the e-waste trader and the repair worker, who see the potential for seemingly unlimited trajectories of multitudinous conditions and configurations. This view of e-waste from the repair shop (and even the scrap shop) rather than a recycling factory offers a very different rendering of e-waste and particularly informal e-waste labor in the Global South than is presented in policy and popular media. Building on scholarship on vibrant waste economies, I demonstrate that India’s electronic “waste” sector is in fact a powerful source of value (and product) creation and call into question e-waste as a definitive “waste” product and its management in a “waste” economy.