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Disassembly & Recycling: Learning Resource

Designing products for easy disassembly has several benefits, including making repairs and upgrades easier to prolong a product's useful life. It also helps ensure proper recycling and allows whole components to be reused. Key strategies for designing for disassembly include using fewer parts and fasteners, common fasteners that require standard tools, and avoiding glues, which makes the product easier to take apart and process for recycling. Building disassembly instructions directly into the product also helps users understand how to disassemble it.

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Disassembly & Recycling: Learning Resource

Designing products for easy disassembly has several benefits, including making repairs and upgrades easier to prolong a product's useful life. It also helps ensure proper recycling and allows whole components to be reused. Key strategies for designing for disassembly include using fewer parts and fasteners, common fasteners that require standard tools, and avoiding glues, which makes the product easier to take apart and process for recycling. Building disassembly instructions directly into the product also helps users understand how to disassemble it.

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LEARNING RESOURCE

Disassembly & Recycling

INTRODUCTION

Designing for disassembly has several benefits. It can make it • Building disassembly instructions into the product will
easier for your product to be repaired or upgraded, thereby help users understand how to take it apart.
prolonging its useful life. It can also help ensure your product is
recycled and enable whole components to be reused. In fact, the For a more complete list of strategies, read the Design for
degree to which your product can be disassembled easily often Improving Product Lifetime Quick Reference Guide.
determines how the product will end its life. To help ensure your product is recycled responsibly, you should
Designing for disassembly involves some straightforward tactics. design it so that an e-waste recycler can easily process its parts.
For example: The recycler should be able to remove the valuable metals and
plastics without letting any toxins escape, and extract
• The fewer parts you use, the fewer parts there are to components that shouldn’t be shredded.
take apart.
Using the same strategic thinking, you can also design your
• As with parts, the fewer fasteners you use, the better. products so that whole components can be reused rather than
• Common and similar fasteners that require only a few just materials. This is known as remanufacturing.
standard tools will help to simplify and speed
disassembly.

• Screws are faster to unfasten than nuts and bolts.

• Glues should be avoided.

| academy.autodesk.com IMPROVING PRODUCT LIFETIME: DISASSEMBLY & RECYCLING

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