Environmental issues have become an imperative for most modern companies. They are under pressure on making the product development process compliant with recent green directives. Product structure is recognized as a critical factor for reducing environmental impact in product end-of-life. However, most previous studies failed to leverage the latitude at the design stage due to the assumption of a fixed product structure. We propose a CAD-supported tool that allows automatic variation of 3D product structure by combination of parts, selection of assembly method, and re- Arranging the assembly sequence. A GA-based optimization scheme is developed to produce a better product structure corresponding to lower assembly/disassembly costs, while fulfilling with given recycling and recovering constraints. The results implemented in a commercial CAD system demonstrate the practicality of this work in computeraided green product design. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010.
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Chu, C. H., & Luh, Y. P. (2010). Computer- Aided green product design based on product structure variation. In Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing (Vol. 66 AISC, pp. 127–144). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10430-5_10
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