Date of Award
2013-01-01
Degree Name
Master of Science
Department
Industrial Engineering
Advisor(s)
Tzu-Liang Tseng
Abstract
With rising medical expenditure and increase in medical waste, it is highly imperative to look for ways to recycle and reuse medical products. Even though the reprocessing industry has made use of optimum disassembly techniques in order to derive the maximum possible profit from each medical device, it is limited since most of the medical devices can be hard to recycle without a change in the basic design complying with life cycle goals. This study will introduce a framework which will help to combine the optimum disassembly techniques with the modularity concept in order to come up with recommendations for redesigning a medical product in order to extract maximum profit from a medical device not possible from the initial design while at the same time fulfill sustainability goals by extracting maximum useful material easily for material extraction and recycling purposes
Language
en
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
Copyright Date
2013
File Size
121 pages
File Format
application/pdf
Rights Holder
Karthik Varma Manikanta Koppella
Recommended Citation
Koppella, Karthik Varma Manikanta, "Critical Parts Retrieval and Profit Maximization for Medical Sustainability using Design for Disassembly and Modularity" (2013). Open Access Theses & Dissertations. 1853.
https://scholarworks.utep.edu/open_etd/1853