Redesign of a flat panel television for improved disassembly

Redesign of a flat panel television for improved disassembly

Visser, T.

Bakker, C.A. (mentor)
Peck, D.P. (mentor)
Devoldere, T. (mentor)

Industrial Design Engineering

Design Engineering

Master of Science Integrated Product Design

2014-01-31

The European Commission has developed the “Europe 2020” strategy, and one of its flagship programs is resource efficiency. One of the implications of this strategy is that directives will have to be updated. One of these directives is the ecodesign directive. Since the directive currently only focuses on energy-efficiency a study is underway to investigate if material resource efficiency requirements could be incorporated in the directive and its . implementing measuses. This will have influence on how products have to be designed. The main challenge for this thesis is to find out how regulation and legislation might possibly change and to find out which implications this has on the design of flat panel televisions. Several requirements are proposed by DG JRC for flatpanel TV design : »» Improved dismantling of key components »» Declaration of CRM (Indium Content) »» Improved recyclability of plastics (marking of plastic parts) Disassembly of a current TV shows that mainly the first requirement is difficult to meet with current TVs. A literature review is conducted to identify design guidelines for improving the disassembly of products. The following aspects were identified: »» The selection and use of compatible materials »» The design of components and product architecture »» The selection and use of fasteners With this information, a concept TV is designed, which has a renewed product architecture in which those components most critical for recycling are grouped together. Assessment of the renewed design shows that it is possible to meet the proposed requirements, but that TV design will radically have to change.

Disassembly
Flat panel television
Product hierarchy
Legislation
Design

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Student theses

master thesis

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