Department of Mechanical Engineering and Construction, Universitat Jaume I, Av. Sos Baynat s/n, 12071 Castellón, Spain.
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Construction, Universitat Jaume I, Av. Sos Baynat s/n, 12071 Castellón, Spain.
J Environ Manage. 2018 Dec 15;228:483-494. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.08.014. Epub 2018 Aug 13.
This study presents a methodology that allows the analysis of how an existing product design meets the design guidelines required from the circular economy perspective, and which are the design guidelines that would need to be incorporated into its design to become a better circular design product. For that, as a starting point, the design guidelines required for the circular product design have been identified from an extensive literature review. Then, criteria have been defined to measure the margin of improvement of a product design based on the level of compliance of each circular design guideline, and the relevance of each circular design guideline for the specific product category to which it belongs. Finally, the methodology has been applied to a representative sample of 127 appliances belonging to different categories of small household electrical and electronic equipment. The circular design guidelines related to extending life span and to product/components reuse have been identified as those that more urgently need to be incorporated, while the urgency of those related to connectors or product structure is moderate.
本研究提出了一种方法，可用于分析现有产品设计如何符合从循环经济角度所需的设计准则，以及为了成为更好的循环设计产品，需要将哪些设计准则纳入其设计中。为此，首先从广泛的文献综述中确定了循环产品设计所需的设计准则。然后，定义了一些标准，以根据每个循环设计准则的合规程度以及每个循环设计准则对其所属特定产品类别的相关性来衡量产品设计的改进空间。最后，该方法应用于 127 种属于小型家用电子和电气设备不同类别的电器的代表性样本。与延长使用寿命和产品/组件再利用相关的循环设计准则被确定为更需要纳入的准则，而与连接器或产品结构相关的准则则较为适中。
