Introduction to end-of-life (EoL) management of industrial products: status, regulations, criteria, targets
End of Life management strategies, from product dismantling to material segregation
Description of typical industrial products EoL strategies, from vehicles to Waste from Electric and Electronic devices
Criteria for EoL-aware requirement and specification definition
Design of EoL applications: components case studies
Reference text: to be defined
Slides prepared by the teacher.
During the course, a selection of scientific articles will be provided.
Obiettivi Formativi
The course is intended to provide industrial engineers with specific competencies related to the design of products using EoL-aware competencies and criteria, in order to meet the normative requirements since the early concept phase of the product and, where possible, to exceed the minimal targets up to the best possible solutions.
To achieve such intent, the course will form professional figures with competencies in the field of EoL treatments (including dismantling and material segregation methods and typical recycling plant layout), which are precursors for the knowledge of relevant products EoL characteristics and the illustration of best practices to be adopted during design phase.
The course is addressed mainly to industrial engineers and the competencies are supposed to be useful for product designers, decision makers, project managers and recycling system organizers.
The course will contribute to the following learning objectives specific of the Master Programme:
Knowledge and understanding
- cc1: The multidisciplinary normative, methodological, technological, and instrumental knowledge of the context related to the ecological transition of systems, services and products.
- cc2: The systemic knowledge of methodologies, technologies, and key aspects of the life cycle assessment of a product, process or service.
- cc3: The knowledge of technologies related to the end-of-life treatment of products for re-use, re-manufacturing, and recycling.
Applying knowledge and understanding
- ca1: The ability to identify, formulate and solve industrial engineering problems, defining specifications, technical, social, environmental, and commercial constraints.
- ca3: The ability to select and apply methods for the development of new processes, systems, and components.
- ca5: The ability to combine theory and practice to identify and solve multidisciplinary engineering problems, considering constraints, including non-technical ones.
Making judgements
- ag1: The ability to independently analyse data and information, draw objective conclusions and make consequential decisions.
- ag3: The ability to identify the need for new knowledge.
Communication skills
- ac2: The ability to professionally present problems, solutions, analyses and results through written reports and verbal presentations.
Learning skills
- ap1: The capacity for continuous and autonomous learning, and self-updating in the relevant engineering area.
Prerequisiti
General knowledge about machine design competencies, including material characteristics and choice criteria.
Metodi Didattici
The course will be held partly in the form of frontal lessons, partly in the form of classroom exercise which include the examination of parts/systems and their modification using computer aided engineering tools.
Visit to relevant industries will be planned.
Modalità di verifica apprendimento
Oral examination about the contents provided by frontal lectures and exercises.
The examination is aimed at assessing:
a) Achievement of proper knowledge about Design for End of Life potential within current context (cc1), its relevance within product life cycle (cc2) and the solutions suitable for EoL management (cc3)
b) ability to apply knowledge into engineering case studies, considering the large variability of typical EoL problems (ca1), the need for structured method identification and application (ca3) and providing design solutions aimed at improving EoL performances (ca5)
c) Analysis and synthesis capability in the design and data analysis phase (ag1), including the ability to identify the need for new knowledge, typical of continuously improving EoL management processes (ag3)
d) communication skills, with particular regard to the ability of transferring information in an efficient manner between different engineering teams (ac2)
e) Propension to continuous learning, through information collection and/or design method revision beyond exam program in order to complete a personal project (ap1)
Programma del corso
Introduction to end-of-life (EoL) management of industrial products: status, normative, criteria, targets
- European directives
- Relevant products: vehicles, WEEE, packaging
- Statistical information about recycling rates worldwide
End of Life management strategies, from product dismantling to material segregation
- Waste collection
- Depollution and dismantling methods
- Component fragmentation, material identification and segregation
- Plant organization and event-based simulation criteria
Description of typical industrial products EoL strategies, from vehicles to Waste from Electric and Electronic devices
- Product characteristics
- Product design best practices
Criteria for EoL-aware requirement and specification definition. Criteria for recoverability, recyclability and recoverability assessment.
- ISO 22628 and related methods
Design of EoL applications: material and components case studies