Part agent advice for promoting reuse of the part based on life cycle information

Abstract

In order to promote reuse of parts for achieving sustainable society, we are developing part agent system. A part agent that consists of a network agent and radio frequency identification technologies manages information of the corresponding part throughout its life cycle and provides users with advices on maintenance of the part. In this paper, a framework is proposed to create appropriate advices based on life cycle information of the part. To be used in the framework, a method was developed to estimate reusability of a part against operations of a user based on causal network on failures.