The design stage is becoming an important step to reach the technical and economic feasibility of the recovery processes, which goal is to minimize the waste production and reducing energy consumption. The aim of this study is to analyze the major tools of the Environmental Conscious Manufacturing (ECM), as a design approach that anticipates disposal constraints to design stage. The study involving the Concurrent Engineering (CE) aims at complete harmonizing between traditional design factors as quality, time and costs and environmental constraints, and the Design for Disassembly (DfD), a design method that allows to facilitate the disassembly process, and in particular the automated disassembly process. We propose the Degree of Picking, a dimensional parameter, that considers the typology of used tools, required time and relative space in the automated picking operations of a product component to value the effects of DfD on disassembly process, and especially on automated one. The model "degree of picking" has been applied to the automated disassembly process of three different cellular phones, since their best characteristics of the recovery processes study.
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