Status
In Progress
Material Class
Polymers / Metals / E-Scrap
specific materials
Aluminum
Steel
Platinum Group Metals (PGMs)
21-01-DE-5071

Data-Driven Design Decision Support for Remanufacturing of High-Value Components in Industrial and Agricultural Equipment

NODE
Technical Thrust
Systems Analysis & Integration
Design for Re-X Tools
project Members
Mississippi state university logo
Iowa state university logo
University of illinois urbana-champaign logo
APRA automotive parts remanufacturers association logo
John Deere logo
About

This project aims to develop and validate a new tool package (D4Reman) for design decision analysis to improve the reuse rates of high-value components at end-of-life. The project is a continuation of exploratory project 18-02-DE-06. Upon completion, this project will create a software tool package (D4Reman) for data-driven design decision support consisting of a cloud-based software application along with an Excel plugin. It will utilize field reliability data and reman reuse data to identify design improvement decisions and quantitatively assess their influences on the initial cost, life-cycle warranty cost (LCWC), and energy and emissions. This project will reduce primary feedstock by 0.55 million metric tons (MMT) of steel and aluminum, 7 PJ energy reduction, 0.42 MMCO2e. Assumptions based on preliminary results of exploratory project.

PUBLICATIONS

October 5, 2023
Reman Co-Design: A Combined Design and Remanufacturing Optimization Framework for the Sustainable Design of High-Value Components
Journal Article
Pub. Info: Submitted to ASME Journal of Mechanical Design - Joint Special Issue on Advances in Design and Manufacturing for Sustainability

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