Method for upgrading a component within refurbishment

authored by

Nicola Viktoria Ganter, Behrend Bode, Paul Christoph Gembarski, Roland Lachmayer

Abstract

One of the arguments against an increased use of repair is that, due to the constantly growing progress, an often already outdated component would be restored. However, refurbishment also allows a component to be modified in order to upgrade it to the state of the art or to adapt it to changed requirements. Many existing approaches regarding Design for Upgradeability are based on a modular product architecture. In these approaches, however, only the upgradeability of a product is considered through the exchange of components. Nevertheless, the exchange and improvement of individual component regions within a refurbishment has already been successfully carried out using additive processes. In this paper, a general method is presented to support the reengineering process, which is necessary to refurbish and upgrade a damaged component. In order to identify which areas can be replaced in the closed system of a component, the systematics of the modular product architecture are used. This allows dependencies between functions and component regions to be identified. Thus, it possible to determine which functions can be integrated into the intended component.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Motion Engineering and Mechanism Design

Type

Conference article

Journal

Proceedings of the Design Society

Volume

1

Pages

2057-2065

No. of pages

9

Publication date

27.07.2021

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computer Science Applications, Software, Modelling and Simulation

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth, SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2021.467 (Access: Open)