Process requirements for disassembly and recycling

摘要

Waste flow processing is become a major challenge of industrialized nations. In most of EU members countries, rough dumping will be legally forbidden by year 2002, 50 that the whole waste flow will be processed before dumping or recycled towards industry as raw materials. The legislative pressure aims at forcing manufacturers to be responsible for their products at their end of life. In the case of used products (industrial and domestic equipment), disassembly is a necessary step before any further processing towards dumping or recycling. This paper highlights some requirements for the industrialization of disassembly processes, a key problem being the need for two types of information: off-line technical data on product and process data to be obtained from manufacturers, as well as on-line measures to let disassembly processes adapt to highly variable state of used products.