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Reuse, remanufacturing and recycling have been recognized as the main preferred product end-of-life strategies in terms of sustainability currently. Those three end-of-life strategies require distinct processes, expertises and management respectively during product end-of-life phase. Therefore, it is imperative to achieve each end-of-life strategy separately and efficiently to achieve sustainability. Nowadays, products are characterized by high variety of constituent components with diverse appropriate end-of-life strategies. Ideally, if components with the same end-of-life strategy can be grouped in the same module, the overall sustainability of the entire product can be significantly enhanced by means of efficient and appropriate handling of end-of-life products. Moreover, all efforts should be concentrated on product design phase. To this end, this paper intends to propose a systematic approach assisting product designers during product design phase to facilitate and promote appropriate reuse, remanufacturing and recycling of the entire end-of-life product holistically to achieve sustainability.

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Wang, W., Tseng, M.M. (2010). Life Cycle Commonality: As a Systematic Approach to Achieve Product Design for Sustainability. In: Huang, G.Q., Mak, K.L., Maropoulos, P.G. (eds) Proceedings of the 6th CIRP-Sponsored International Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 66. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10430-5_22

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