End of life management of industrial robots

End of life management (EOL) is currently a hot topic in the electronics industry. Currently, mostly IT equipment and goods of consumer electronics are considered. In the nearest future automation equipment has also to be taken into account. There are three possibilities depending on the age and kin...

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Published inElektrotechnik und Informationstechnik Vol. 130; no. 2; pp. 67 - 71
Main Authors Kopacek, Bernd, Kopacek, Peter
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Vienna Springer Vienna 01.03.2013
Subjects
Computer Hardware
Electrical Engineering
Engineering
Originalarbeiten
Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems
Wiederverwertung
disassembly
Roboter
end of life management
recycling
robots
Demontage
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Summary:End of life management (EOL) is currently a hot topic in the electronics industry. Currently, mostly IT equipment and goods of consumer electronics are considered. In the nearest future automation equipment has also to be taken into account. There are three possibilities depending on the age and kind of the device: resell–reuse–recycle, called the “3Rs”. For recycling fully or semi-automated disassembly will gain in importance in the nearest future also for robots. Producers of robots have to take into account EoL because of regulations and laws as well as according to ethical codes contributing to protection of the environment. Based on previous works a real example will be presented and discussed.
ISSN:0932-383X
1613-7620
DOI:10.1007/s00502-013-0131-7