Thursday, March 17, 2011

Task 3 Ecoredesign (Disassembly kettle)


The product that we disassembly is kettle. this product take us about 2 hours to speared in to parts. The hardest of this product is have to use many different fasteners to get the screws out.


In this exercise we identify the product materials and discusses the process of how the parts made. This kettle predominantly use material of polyproperly. The design of this product is simply,but there is challenge of hard to take out the heating system. Only this part it has 8 screws. After the disassembly we find out all the material of this product ended up have to go to landfill, nothing can be really recycle that is really waste.


The report from the greenfly shows that the part that has most environment impact is the heating system. (It took long time to separate it.) This result also shows that the design company didn't really consider about the environment when they design.


For redesign this product we can do better so don't have to waste that much. we consider to reduce the require of using fastener, there for most of the part can be use technique of self lock, in this way manufactory can reduce the cost of product and also can easy to get the product recycle which is more friendly for the environment.







Group member:
Guida Arezzi
Stanley Darmawan
Xiaoling Li
Jen Jun Zhu
katty





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