SFB 281:  Disassembly Factories for the Recovery of Resources from Product-and Material Cycles

• Subject Area: Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
• Term: from 1995 to 2006
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5476059

The goal of the collaborative research centre 281 is to increase the use-productivity of resources. Aggravated economical, ecological and legislative conditions require strategies for long lasting, extended and intensified use of products. A sustainable and reuse-orientated cycle economy offers potentials for the realization of these strategies. Here, disassembly is a pre-conditional process level. Disassembly is not only necessary at the end of a product's life cycle but also of growing importance in a product's usage phase. Disassembly allows the adaptation of deteriorated products and components by modernising, remanufacturing, repairing, rearranging, maintaining, upgrading or downgrading, increasing or reducing. Disassembly and reassembly are essential for adaptation processes. In order to promote the adaptation of products instead of their disposal the efforts for disassembly and reassembly have to be reduced. Therefore, this research contributes to efficiently organised, highly mechanised and partly automated disassembly factories. The collaborative research centre consists of four project areas, which consider the development of new disassembly processes and tools and product accompanying information systems such as the micro system Life Cycle Unit, logistics and urban development, product assessment, disassembly planning as well as design for disassembly.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres

Completed projects

• A01 - Trennen unlösbarer Verbindungen (Project Head Uhlmann, Eckart )
• A02 - Formunabhängige Endeffektoren für die zerstörungsfreie Demontage (Project Head Seliger, Günther )
• A03 - Flexible Spanntechnik (Project Head Uhlmann, Eckart )
• A04 - Arbeitsschutz, Sicherheitstechnik und flexible Reinigungstechnologie (Project Head Uhlmann, Eckart )
• A05 - Sensoren zur Prozeßführung und Zustandserkennung (Project Heads Reichl, Herbert ;  Seliger, Günther )
• A06 - Realisierung eines Pilot-Demontagesystems (Project Heads Seliger, Günther ;  Uhlmann, Eckart )
• B01 - Prozeßkettenbezogene Auslegung logistischer Systeme (Project Head Baumgarten, Helmut )
• B02 - Konzeption eines Netzwerkes von Demontagefabriken (Project Head Baumgarten, Helmut )
• B03 - Die Wechselwirkung zwischen Demontagefabrik und Stadt (Project Head Bayerer, Peter )
• C01 - Methodik zur Bewertung der Recyclinggerechtheit (Project Head Seliger, Günther )
• C02 - Rechnerunterstützte Demontageplanung und -steuerung (Project Head Seliger, Günther )
• C04 - Ökonomische und ökologische Handlungsoptionen (Project Heads Ackermann, Robert ;  Fleischer, Günther ;  von Hirschhausen, Christian )
• D01 - Entwicklung von intelligenten Verbindungstechniken für die Demontage (Project Head Blessing, Lucienne )
• D02 - Konstruktionsunterstützung bei der demontagegerechten Produktentwicklung (Project Head Blessing, Lucienne )
• D03 - Simulationswerkzeuge zur demontagegerechten Produktentwicklung (Project Head Krause, Frank-Lothar )
• D04 - Demontageorientierte informationstechnische Infrastruktur (Project Head Krause, Frank-Lothar )
• Z01 - Zentrale Aufgaben (Project Head Seliger, Günther )
• Z02 - Roadmap for Sustainability - A global Perspective (Project Head Seliger, Günther )

• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Berlin
• Participating University: Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK)
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr.-Ing. Günther Seliger