Improving repairability in cordless vacuum cleaners

The incentive of this graduation project was to determine the repairability of Philips cordless vacuum cleaners and propose strategies to improve their repairability. This was done using two assessment methods; the Disassembly map and the French Repairability Index (FRI). The French Repairability Index is the first mandatory repair label. The...

Towards circular EV chargers: Assessing and improving the circularity of EVBox’s commercial AC chargers

Over the past years, electric vehicle charging company EVBox has, in collaboration with design agency VanBerlo made the first steps in becoming more circular. Within this project further steps have been explored on both strategic- and product level of EVBox’s commercial AC chargers. First, an analysis on the EV context led to the conclusion that...