Analysis of Disassembly Characteristics and PSS Proposal by Component Reuse of Mobile Phones

Abstract

In Japan, the annual number of used smartphones is rapidly increasing. Such used smartphones often outflow to overseas, and domestic material recycling system will be endangered, if smartphones become dominant in the recycling market. Component reuse (remanufacturing) is a hopeful way to extract larger value from used products. In focusing on component reuse, the paper carries out disassembly experiments to know the bottlenecks of disassembly. The paper proposed design improvement plans and also proposed conceptual PSS (product service system) ideas. It concluded that component reuse of used mobile phones can be a good way to bridge the gap between product reuse and material recycling.