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Increasing need for management tools for product re-useLegislative measures, market forces and competitive pressures are compelling manufacturers of Electro-mechanical products to take-back 'end of life' products for re-use through remanufacturing, recycling or reclamation of parts and materials. This asks for supporting tools for business development and operations management.PAWS-objective 1: Understanding the Resource Sustainment issueThe first PAWS-objective has been to provide an understanding of resource recovery in terms of business models and objectives. This has resulted in a body of knowledge, put down in:
- a State of the Art Description (1996) and detailed Business Requirements from the industrial partners within PAWS, representing the telecom/electronics industry and the automotive sector;
- an innovative Typology for Resource Recovery situations (1996).
The typology is a valuable carrier for knowledge about and the analysis of resource recovery situations and shall promote the understanding and the development of resource sustainment.
PAWS-objective 2: Research on how to fulfil the Business Requirements
Three types of Business Requirements have been addressed, leading to the following results:
- A process model for the development of a Product Take-back Strategy has been developed. The end-deliverable is a method that can assist OEM's in their strategic decision-making processes concerning the development of a product take-back strategy.
- The Value Cost Model (VCM), a prototype decision support tool for the routing of retired products through the recovery chain. This PC-software tool supports decision making for Original Equipment Manufacturers, OEMs, and resource recovers as to choice of recovery option at product end-of-life, based on cost and value criteria.
- A logistic typology for Resource sustainment: specifically for the design logistic control of resource sustainment situations, a typology has been developed;
- ERP-software for Resource Sustainment: Baan Development has developed Business Models for the operational support of resource recovery operations. After a generalisation step, these models were converted in functional specifications for additional modules for the BaanSeries software package. A number of modules are finishes and incorporated in the BaanSeries software. The result is available as part of commercial software, to be used by Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul and Resource Sustainment companies.
Important conclusion: Business goals as the main driver for product re-useTo any resource sustainment activity, the existence of a supportive business environment and infrastructure is of critical importance. Environmental principles of themselves will not motivate action in the commercial world. They have to be coupled with financial and competitive mechanisms, if progress is to be made. The challenge is to do this in a way that continues technological progress and fulfils the aspirations of the world population. As a start PAWS incorporated elements in its business models that economically motivate stakeholders, like:
- A clear picture on how costs and values are distributed in the chain (Value Cost Model);
- To link resource sustainment to a innovative way to approach the market, i.e. as part of a market oriented strategy.
We see the development to a service orientation in many types of industries, which means that also in other industries this service orientation could significantly improve the chances of resource recovery within industry.
The RTD performers (Delft University of Technology of Delft, the Netherlands and Inescop of Elda, Spain) have consorted with the industrial partners in a project to investigate the industrial potential of UV/Ozone pre-treatment of plastic and rubber parts for adhesive applications in the footwear, printing, coating and metallization industries. A main objective was, to replace pre-treatments of such surfaces with hazardous and poisonous chemicals, which are presently used for these purposes, but which are detrimental for workers' health and for the environment.The technology window for the application of UV/Ozone pre-treatment of polymer surfaces as an industrial technology was established. It was found that:
- -Short wavelength UV (172nm, 185nm) must be used in this process.
- -Ozone (O3) molecules or other oxidants must be present at the treated surface, rather than being formed bij the UV-radiation in the ambient atmosphere.
- A low pressure, low intensity mercury UV-source can be used, but it must have a special quartz envelope which transmits the 185nm wavelength UV.
- With these low pressure UV-sources the recommended pre-treatment time for polymer and rubber surfaces is of the order of minutes.
- For large series of parts to be treated this calls for moving belt, chain or band operations through a stationary and continuously operating UV-irradiation cabinet.
- Surfaces of polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinylchloride were pre-treated with UV/Ozone and order of magnitude (tenfold) increases were obtained in the adhesion strength of coatings, glues and printing inks.
- Industrial parts and surfaces of engineering plastics or rubbers (ABS, EPDM, SBS, SBR, TR) and of leather were successfully pre-treated with UV/ozone and industrial specifications for specific adhesive technologies were met.
- Prototype equipment for UV/ozone pre-treatment has been built and equipment manufacturers among the partners in the consortium have obtained the first commercial orders for apparatus of this kind.
- With high intensity, low wavelength (172nm) UV excimer sources the irradiation time for successful pre-treatment of polymer surfaces is reduced to seconds.
The conclusion now is, that existing pre-treatments for coatings and adhesive technologies in several industrial applications can successfully be replaced by UV/Ozone pre-treatment. This gives advantages for workers' health and in the industrial impact on the environment. Introduction of UV/Ozone pre-treatment can lead to competitive industrial advantage, through modernisation of the manufacturing technology, improved process control and a more reproducible quality of the manufactured products.
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