A Design Method to Improve End-of-Use Product Value Recovery for Circular Economy

Liu, Cong; Zhao, Fu; Sutherland, John W.

doi:10.1115/1.4041574

Cited by 44 publications

(40 citation statements)

References 22 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Sensors on the product and its production lines as well as more powerful simulations will generate unprecedented volumes of data. Principles of circularity and sustainability will become commercial and moral imperative (Tukker 2015;Man & Strandhagen 2017;Cong, Zhao & Sutherland 2019;Wichmann et al 2019). All this requires greater transparency in the ways of working and greater collaboration with other fields; and therefore, engagement with their tools and methods and ideally a coordination across different disciplines to assure that gaps and incompatibilities do not cause inefficiencies and product failures.…”

Section: /22mentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting designers: moving from method menagerie to method ecosystem

et al. 2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Supporting designers is one of the main motivations for design research. However, there is an ongoing debate about the ability of design research to transfer its results, which are often provided in form of design methods, into practice. This article takes the position that the transfer of design methods alone is not an appropriate indicator for assessing the impact of design research by discussing alternative pathways for impacting design practice. Impact is created by different means – first of all through the students that are trained based on the research results including design methods and tools and by the systematic way of thinking they acquired that comes along with being involved with research in this area. Despite having a considerable impact on practice, this article takes the position that the transfer of methods can be improved by moving from cultivating method menageries to facilitating the evolution of method ecosystems. It explains what is understood by a method ecosystem and discusses implications for developing future design methods and for improving existing methods. This paper takes the position that efforts on improving and maturing existing design methods should be raised to satisfy the needs of designers and to truly support them.

show abstract

Section: /22mentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting designers: moving from method menagerie to method ecosystem

et al. 2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Ma & Kremer (2015) provided a systematic method for evaluating the EOL options of components considering the sustainability and subjective perception of the designer's sustainability. Cong, Zhao & Sutherland (2019) proposed a methodology to determine recovery strategies for end-of-use components and optimal new product design to improve product recyclability for circular economy. Wang et al (2017) showed the impact of component commonality decisions in product family design on component reuse in remanufacturing with respect to introduction time of the second generation of product family and durability of components.…”

Section: Confirmation With the Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Research perspectives in ecodesign

et al. 2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Ecodesign has gained significant traction in recent years ranging from academic research to business applications at a global scale. Initial emphasis on the environmental aspect of design has evolved to include economic and social aspects, with projects ranging from small-scale products to large-scale industrial systems. In this paper, the authors re-analyse 10 of their major ecodesign research projects of the past ten years to identify five categories of challenges and promising future directions for ecodesign research. This paper is primarily a retrospective position paper based on the authors’ experience of actual design studies, providing also a relevant literature review and summary of design practices.

show abstract

“…Lastly, design scholars studied the concept of design for value recovery, which looks at ways in which design can work with materials to retain and make better use of their value. Several papers looked at design methods to facilitate value recovery [80]. Mont [81] focused on product durability and researched various design methods to lengthen the product lifespan (e.g., design that can be upgraded or reused, easily maintained, replaced; design for remanufacturing; design for upgrading; mass-customization; timeless design) and strategies that can maximize the utilization rate of consumer durables (e.g., shift from consumer ownership to producer ownership; shift from supply chain to value chain actor-networks).…”

Section: Design For Circular Production Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Haug [82] described "resilient design" with a fine-grained classification of both causes of product replacement and organizing means to extend the longevity of products. Cong et al [80] suggested a method to improve end-of-use product recyclability through a sequence of steps that evaluate various end-of-use scenarios and then analytically define which components of a product are more suitable to be disassembled, recycled, and reused. Goldsworthy [83] proposed to take into account the multiple rhythms and speeds (e.g., slow and fast fashion speed) within a product's entire lifecycle in order to design effective circular fashion products.…”

Section: Design For Circular Production Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Circular Economy in Industrial Design Research: A Review

Dam¹,

Simeone

Keskin

et al. 2020

Sustainability

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In the past decades, industrial design practice and research have focused extensively on how to optimize production and consumption, as a way to prevent negative environmental impacts, such as resource depletion, pollution, and excessive waste. Recently, the “circular economy” concept is increasingly used to achieve environmental benefits and economic growth simultaneously. Industrial design can contribute to a circular economy by fostering systems changes to achieve durability, optimal reuse, refurbishment, remanufacturing, and recycling of products and materials. Indeed, researchers have examined both the theoretical and practical aspects of how design knowledge can support the transition to a circular economy. However, this body of knowledge has not been systematically analyzed yet. To address this critical gap, this paper poses the following question: How has industrial design research so far contributed to advancing the circular economy knowledge? Accordingly, we survey relevant design literature focusing on the circular economy, through a review of contributions published in 42 scientific journals. Based on our results, we discuss how industrial design practices can potentially contribute to a circular economy across four thematic areas: (1) design for circular production processes, (2) design for circular consumption, (3) design to support policy towards the circular economy, and (4) design education for the circular economy.

show abstract

A Design Method to Improve End-of-Use Product Value Recovery for Circular Economy

Cited by 44 publications

References 22 publications

Supporting designers: moving from method menagerie to method ecosystem

Supporting designers: moving from method menagerie to method ecosystem

Research perspectives in ecodesign

Circular Economy in Industrial Design Research: A Review

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About