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A Review presented by Ricky O’Brien

A Review presented by Ricky O’Brien. ‘Sustainable Life Cycle Engineering of an Integrated Desktop PC; A SME Perspective’ Fitzpatrick, C., Hickey, S., Schischke , K., Maher, P. PC Lifecycle from a SME perspective. Encouraging Environmental Actions During P roduct L ife Cycle.

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A Review presented by Ricky O’Brien

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  1. A Review presented by Ricky O’Brien ‘Sustainable Life Cycle Engineering of an Integrated Desktop PC; A SME Perspective’Fitzpatrick, C., Hickey, S., Schischke, K., Maher, P.

  2. PC Lifecycle from a SME perspective

  3. Encouraging Environmental Actions During Product Life Cycle

  4. Case Study: iameco Mitigating ‘upstream impacts’ by ensuring a long and productive usage phase

  5. Product Features • Housing – Oak, with stainless steel frame Easy to refurbish, emotionally durable, made from FSC certified renewable forests, cheaper than plastic moulds and suitable for small production run • Motherboard – Intel with Inter dual core D510 processor

  6. Product Features contd. • Hard Drive – Solid State Drive (SSD) lifetime extension, lower read/write latency times, higher mechanical reliability, fast random access for reading data • Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) backlights • Touch control keyboard/mouse saves on raw materials and energy.

  7. Disassemble assessment Design aspects critically assembled • Component accessibility • Design for repair and upgradability • Demountability • Stability of value and associated criteria Marked out of 5 – most scoring 4/5 or 5/5.

  8. Disassembly to WEEE components in 3 minutes 39 seconds

  9. Additional Service Offering • Maintenance, repair and upgrades - supports a long life • Build a relationship with customer – get PC back from customer in good time for refurbishment, etc. • Guaranteed buy back/trade in service – encourages return of PC at end of use

  10. To Summarise….. • SME have little effect on upstream activities – ‘conflict minerals, design of main components • They can influence downstream activities • Promote long lifetime with the original user • Facilitate refurbishment and re-use • Ease of disassembly • Contains minimal valueless fractions at end of life

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