Product Design for a Circular Economy

Functional Recovery on Focus

Conference paper (2018)

Authors

B. Pozo Arcos Linköping University
R. Balkenende External organisation
C.A. Bakker External organisation
Erik Sundin External organisation
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Sustainability Design guidelines Early design phase end of use Recovery operations
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Published Date

2018

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English

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Abstract

This paper explores existing design strategies, guidelines and product features that enable functional recovery operations like repair, refurbishing or remanufacturing. A circular economy demands for products to be kept as valuable as possible for as long as possible. Therefore, recovery operations should be easy to perform in an efficient manner, which is influenced by product design. As a result of the literature review conducted, this paper presents a categorization of functional recovery guidelines for product design and identifies the need to plan for recovery at early design stages.