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Towards Sustainable Electronics: Exploring IC Reuse for Circular Economy Transformation

August 22, 2024
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Nowell Stoddard, Lisa Paterson, Mark Schaffer, Tom Etheridge, Nehika Mathur, KC Morris, Lise Laurin, Amos Ncube
This perspective paper addresses the importance of responsible end of life (EOL) management of integrated circuits (ICs or chips), with a particular focus on the possibility of IC reuse as an avenue to address the high impacts of chip manufacturing and the

A Standards-Guided Approach for Formalizing Product Circularity Assessment Metrics

August 19, 2024
Author(s)
Junwon Ko, Sandwana Sneethan, Gisele Bortolaz Guedes, Fazleena Badurdeen, I.S. Jawahir, Buddhika Hapuwatte, KC Morris
The industrial transition towards a more sustainable Circular Economy (CE) emphasizes the need for products that align with CE principles and robust methods for assessing their circularity performance. However, ambiguities between metrics vs. indicators

A Critical Analysis of Circular Product Attributes and Limitations of Product Circularity Assessment Methods

May 29, 2024
Author(s)
Junwon Ko, Gisele Bortolaz Guedes, Fazleena Badurdeen, I.S. Jawahir, KC Morris, Vincenzo Ferrero, Buddhika Hapuwatte, Ryan Bradley, Ardeshir Mashhadi
The Circular Economy (CE) has been proposed as a strategy to promote the efficient use of resources, maximizing the benefits derived from materials and products through value recovery strategies, and minimizing waste generation. However, ambiguity remains

Standards as Enablers for a Circular Economy

June 30, 2023
Author(s)
KC Morris, Vincenzo Ferrero, Buddhika Hapuwatte, Noah Last, Nehika Mathur
A successful transition to a circular economy (CE) will require global participation, but the path to that transition will follow many unique routes depending on local situations. The transition must have rigorous technical underpinnings and well-conceived

Optimizing Product Life Cycle Systems for Manufacturing in a Circular Economy

April 26, 2023
Author(s)
Buddhika Hapuwatte, Nehika Mathur, Noah Last, Vincenzo Ferrero, Maya Reslan, KC Morris
Global population growth and increasing resource scarcity are necessitating sustainable manufacturing and circular economy (CE) practices. These practices require the decisions made at each product life cycle (PLC) stage consider sustainability and

Adapting Consumer Product Design to the Circular Economy

August 14, 2022
Author(s)
Vincenzo Ferrero, Buddhika Hapuwatte, KC Morris
Abstract Transition to a Circular Economy (CE) will be facilitated by information transfer between life cycle stages, and, particularly, the transition can be accelerated at the product design stage where the decisions have impact throughout the life cycle

Refocusing the Barriers to Sustainability for Small and Medium Manufacturers

February 14, 2022
Author(s)
Xavier R. Escoto, Demsas Gebrehewot, KC Morris
Sustainable manufacturing practices are a necessary component of sustainable development. Current practices in a linear economy—produce, consume, discard—will not be sufficient to sustain humanity over the long term. At the same time manufacturing is

Quantifying Machining Process Inventories In Detailed Design

August 24, 2021
Author(s)
William Z. Bernstein, Till Boettjer, Deverajan Ramanujan
This paper quantifies machining process inventories based on commonly used techniques in various stages of the detailed design process. We investigate variabilities in process inventories between these techniques and their relation to manufacturing process

Advances in Production Management Systems: Issues, Trends, and Vision Towards 2030

August 13, 2021
Author(s)
Boonserm Kulvatunyou, David Romero, Gregor V. Cieminski, Paolo Gaiardelli, Ilkyeong Moon, Giuditta Pezzotta, Stefan Wiesner, Marco Macchi, Jannicke B. Hauge, Irene Roda, Daryl Powell, Torbj?rn Netland, Nick Szirbik, Christoph Roser, Erlend Alfnes, Martin Rudberg
Since its inception in 1978, the IFIP Working Group 5.7 on Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS) has played an active role in the conception, development, and application of innovative strategies, frameworks, architectures, processes, methods
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