Product and Process Design for Sustainable Manufacturing

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In this course, you integrate the insights you have obtained during the first semester of the final year to solve two circular engineering case studies. Teams of students apply their knowledge and skills of circular engineering to develop an actual solution for one of two themes: a) Redesign of a consumer product to fulfil the requirements of repair and reassemble at component level, or; b) Optimization of the process control of an existing processing plant for energy and water use efficiency. You follow the engineering design cycle from analysis of the existing systems, defining circular engineering requirements, diverging to generate several conceptual solutions, selecting the most promising and developing that into a working functional solution. Finally, you evaluate the performance of the solution quantitatively and discuss the results.