SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT
Some materials are recyclable and some biodegradable but
most end up in land-fill or the oceans and the programs
developed to date to recycle all materials are having limited
success. While products and subsystems are disassemblable
components are often made by fusing materials together in
ways that are not reversible. Recycling then requires a high
energy cost and/or process complexity that is uneconomic.
The logistics that distributes materials, components and
products around the world is, with few exceptions, not closed
cycle as the logistical systems do not return products to their
place of manufacture.
This can be resolved when only recyclable or biodegradable
materials are used; components are made to be disassembed;
all parts, assemblies and products are fully labelled including
specifications (as per the ISO STEP standards); assembly and
disassembly are highly automated, logistics is fully automated
and reversible for recovering defunct products as well as
faulty/repairable products.
EnGen Institute 1992-2018
Software that greatly simplfies
and automates DFD design by
engineers is already available.
Merchants and
consumers can
now lok for the
DFD logo on goods
DESIGN FOR DISASSEMBLY
DFD Software
DFD Logo
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TOTAL SUSTAINABILITY
GENERATIVE ENGINEERING OF ENGINEERED ENVIRONMENTS FOR LIFE SUPPORT
