Print Email Facebook Twitter Fault Diagnosis in Household Appliances: A Design Perspective Title Fault Diagnosis in Household Appliances: A Design Perspective Author Pozo Arcos, B. (TU Delft Circular Product Design) Contributor Bakker, C.A. (promotor) Balkenende, A.R. (promotor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Date 2022-01-28 Abstract Today’s industrialized societies face the challenge of integrating economic activity with sustainable consumption. Prosperity has come hand in hand with environmental damage. Product lifetimes are decreasing and there is a rising demand for high-tech products for which no effective recycling is in place. Hence, the value from products is lost to waste. The current use and management of the Earth’s resources is unsustainable.The circular economy (CE) aims at slowing, closing, and regenerating the flow of goods and materials that enter the economic system. It posits retaining the value from products and encourages a shift to renewable energy resources. In this way, the CE will help reduce our current accelerated resource depletion. In particular, product repairs can help slow down the flow of goods. Repairing products provides an alternative to premature product replacement, and contributes to a significant reduction of waste.In this thesis, I look in detail at the process of fault diagnosis, one of the initial steps to be taken when repairing products. Fault diagnosis identifies the faulty component(s) or cause of failure in a malfunctioning appliance and is therefore essential for efficiently repair. It enables the time, cost, and skills required for the component repair to be established. Subject product designfault diagnosisrepaircircular economy To reference this document use: https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:b9fef4c4-c52d-4155-875c-bda9bc985f0d ISBN 978-94-6384-292-1 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights © 2022 B. Pozo Arcos Files PDF BPA_THESIS_A5_PhD_v2.pdf 4.44 MB PDF BPA_THESIS_A5_PhD_v2_with_cover.pdf 4.37 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:b9fef4c4-c52d-4155-875c-bda9bc985f0d/datastream/OBJ1/view