ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with four design strategies enabling sustainable manufacturing: design for disassembly, design for recycling, design for environment and eco-friendly product design. Disassembly is an effective approach to segregate a product into its essential parts, components, subassemblies or other groupings for various reasons. Design for disassembly gains importance in the context of sustainable manufacturing as it is a vital process facilitating end-of-life management of products. The chapter discusses the factors affecting disassembly and types of disassembly. The most ecologically effective way to cope with an end-of-life product is recycling. The different types of recycling are: physical recycling, battery recycling, and plastic recycling. Design for environment implies product designs that reduce environmental impact across their life cycle, including raw material extraction till end of life. Eco-friendly product development strategies enable product development effectiveness advantages for firms. The chapter discusses the tools that include environmental needs in the design process.
