Determination of redesign proposals to optimise end-of-life treatment of electrical and electronic equipment Online publication date: Sat, 16-Aug-2014
by Anastasia Katsamaki; Nikolaos Bilalis
International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management (IJPLM), Vol. 6, No. 2, 2012
Abstract: The purpose of this work is to present a series of actions that aim to minimise negative environmental consequences of end-of-life (EOL) treatment of wastes of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). To achieve this, the proposed methodology includes search in product redesign interventions and selection of the optimal EOL treatment process based on product characteristics. The process to handle the analysis performed is based on lean thinking (LT) principles. The proposed methodology is an effort to form a simple frame of analysis able to be adjusted in any case of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE). In the end, current results of an application that is still in process are presented concerning the EOL treatment of an oil distribution transformer. These preliminary results seem to be quite satisfactory. However, it appears that improvement actions need to take place in the future mainly concerning data selection and evaluation.
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