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Consumer goods,
Product designers, consultants, teachers
Disassembly is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve a circular product. In this Expert Café, two concrete tools (Hotspot and Disassembly Mapping) will explain the factors relevant to assessing the "ease of disassembly." Practical experiences will then be discussed.
Design for disassembly. In other words, designing for disassembly of products. Disassembly is not a goal in itself, but a means to achieve a circular product. You have to determine what suits the product and the business model best. The goal may be ease of maintenance and repair, adaptability and upgradability or the eventual recovery of parts or raw materials.
On Feb. 8, 2022, CIRCO and TU Delft organized an Expert Café on Design for Disassembly. The topics and speakers were:
In this Expert Café, Bas Flipsen of TU Delft explains, using two concrete tools (Hotspot and Disassembly Mapping), which factors are relevant to assess the "ease of disassembly." And he explains this using a case study. Philips Engineering Solutions and CIRCO share practical experiences. What are dilemmas and considerations for making or not making certain choices and how to look at this from different perspectives?
Individual presentations and additional background information can be found on the CIRCO website.
Want to know more? You go to a Dutch versionThe circular economy does not arise by itself. CIRCO (a program of TKI-CLICKNL) focuses on getting a new market moving. CIRCO therefore activates - with the support of the government - entrepreneurs and creative professionals to (re)design products, services and business models in order to then do circular business.
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Within the Faculty of Industrial Design at TU Delft, the Department of Design for Sustainability deals with sustainable product development and design within the circular economy.
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