Green Maufacturing

In the past, we engineers were charged with considerations such as Design for Manufacturing, Design for Assembly, cost targets, production targets, margin targets, tooling considerations, lead-time and other factors. Now, the new consideration is Design for Disassembly, sometimes referred to as Design for Destruction.  Just as manufacturing or assembling is a process to be optimized, disassembly or destruction of products to be recycled is a relatively new process and needs to be optimized. Read more