Title :
Towards a better closed loop economy for electronic products. Information management between manufacturers and recyclers
Author :
Müller, Jutta ; Griese, Hansjörg ; Middendorf, Andreas ; Reichl, Herbert
Author_Institution :
Fraunhofer Inst. fur Zuverlassigkeit und Mikrointegrati on, Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
Taking into account recycling technologies and the development of electronic products towards further miniaturization and increasing complexity various ways are shown, how by improving the information flow the product´s last life phase can be made more economically and ecologically efficient. Both centralized and decentralized, product integrated information systems are taken into consideration. In an industrial project scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Micro-integration (IZM) in Berlin developed the information system IDEE. This system, where international manufacturers and regional recyclers work together, is described in more detail
Keywords :
economics; electron device manufacture; information systems; recycling; IDEE information system; closed loop economy; ecology; electronic product; information management; life phase; manufacturer; miniaturization; recycler; Consumer electronics; Electronics industry; Environmental economics; Industrial electronics; Information management; Information systems; Manufacturing industries; Microelectronics; Recycling; Reliability engineering;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics and the Environment, 1997. ISEE-1997., Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3808-1
DOI :
10.1109/ISEE.1997.605306
