Design for repair : utilization of reverse engineering in household appliance life expansion
Ivanov, Evgeny (2023)
Diplomityö
2023
School of Energy Systems, Konetekniikka
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2023050541346
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2023050541346
Tiivistelmä
To satisfy the growing demand for goods and services, manufacturing all over the world is increasing the output. This, in its turn, leads to a greater consumption of raw materials, energy, and the associated negative impact on the environment. The trend encourages scientists to develop methods and technologies to increase the service life of products. Product repairability is one of the strategies to achieve this goal.
A household appliance has a service time. When the producer of an appliance changes a model and starts to produce a new line, they will produce the spare parts for the old one just for several years. That means that in case of an insignificant breakage, the user of this household appliance should replace it with the new one. The cost of the new appliance could be a hundred times more than the cost of the broken detail.
The purpose of this thesis is to study the application of reverse engineering (RE) in combination with other industrial design methods for the rapid development and the manufacture of individual spare parts for household appliances.
The case study of this thesis is based on rapid prototyping utilizing the RE with other methods of product development to produce spare parts for the washing machine, the production of which has already been stopped.
The objectives of this paper are, firstly, to review all the aspects of RE in the case study and, secondly, to research and to analyse the advantages and disadvantages of applying RE as a stage of industrial design.
A household appliance has a service time. When the producer of an appliance changes a model and starts to produce a new line, they will produce the spare parts for the old one just for several years. That means that in case of an insignificant breakage, the user of this household appliance should replace it with the new one. The cost of the new appliance could be a hundred times more than the cost of the broken detail.
The purpose of this thesis is to study the application of reverse engineering (RE) in combination with other industrial design methods for the rapid development and the manufacture of individual spare parts for household appliances.
The case study of this thesis is based on rapid prototyping utilizing the RE with other methods of product development to produce spare parts for the washing machine, the production of which has already been stopped.
The objectives of this paper are, firstly, to review all the aspects of RE in the case study and, secondly, to research and to analyse the advantages and disadvantages of applying RE as a stage of industrial design.