Development of a Circularity Impact and Failure Analysis: Obsolescence and Recyclability Integration
DS 101: Proceedings of NordDesign 2020, Lyngby, Denmark, 12th - 14th August 2020
                        Year: 2020
                        Editor: Mortensen, N.H.; Hansen, C.T. and Deininger, M.
                        Author: Bertoni, Alessandro
                        Series: NordDESIGN
                       Institution: Blekinge Institute of Technology
                        Section: Circularity and Sustainability
                        Page(s): 10
                        DOI number: https://doi.org/10.35199/NORDDESIGN2020.2
                        ISBN: 9781912254088
                        
Abstract
The paper presents the first stage of the development of an approach named Circularity Impact and Failure Analysis (CIFA) aiming to become an integral part of a design for circularity strategy. The paper presents the first results of the prescriptive work toward the development of CIFA, limiting the circularity considerations to the integration of obsolescence and recyclability considerations in the FMEA. The paper presents the logic and the rationale of the approach and exemplifies the application of the approach to the case of a bicycle V-brake.
Keywords: circular economy, systems engineering (SE), early design phase, FMEA, Circularity Impact and Effect Analysis