Reliability-Informed Economic and Energy Evaluation for Bi-Level Design for Remanufacturing: A Case Study of Transmission and Hydraulic Manifold

Nemani, Venkat P.; Liu, Jinqiang; Ahmed, Navaid; Cartwright, Adam; Kremer, Gül E.; Hu, Chao

doi:10.1115/1.4054160

Reliability-Informed Economic and Energy Evaluation for Bi-Level Design for Remanufacturing: A Case Study of Transmission and Hydraulic Manifold

Journal Article · 22 April 2022 · Journal of Mechanical Design

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4054160· OSTI ID:1980699

Nemani, Venkat P. ^[1]; Liu, Jinqiang; Ahmed, Navaid; Cartwright, Adam; Kremer, Gül E.; Hu, Chao

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Abstract

Design for remanufacturing (DfRem) is one attractive strategy that encourages the reuse of a product and extends the product's life cycle. Traditional design processes often only consider product reliability at an early design stage. However, from the perspective of environmental sustainability, it is becoming increasingly important to evaluate the long-term economic and environmental impacts of design decisions during early-stage design. We propose a bi-level DfRem framework consisting of system-level reusability allocation and component-level design tradeoff analysis, considering reliability and product warranty policy. First, a system-level reusability allocation problem aims at a theoretical exploration of the design space where all the components comprising the system are allocated certain reuse rates to achieve target energy savings with minimum cost. Following the theoretical exploration at the system level, a component-level analysis looks at practical design options for each component and trades-off between the overall cost and energy consumption for multiple remanufacturing cycles. Both levels of the framework require modeling component reuse for multiple remanufacturing cycles, which we achieve by using a branched power-law model that provides probabilistic scenarios of reusing the component or replacing it with a new part. We demonstrate the utility of this framework with the case study of an infinitely variable transmission (IVT) used by some agricultural machines manufactured by John Deere and show snapshots of a prototype software tool that we developed for easy use by designers.

Research Organization:: Sustainable Manufacturing Innovation Alliance Corp., West Henrietta, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)

DOE Contract Number:: EE0007897;

OSTI ID:: 1980699

Journal Information:: Journal of Mechanical Design, Journal Name: Journal of Mechanical Design Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 144; ISSN 1050-0472

Publisher:: ASME

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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