Assessment of recycling costs in product development stage

Abstract

Assessment of recycling costs in the product development phase has a significant impact on the management of the product at the end of its lifetime. Recycling, which provides product management at end of life, has a significant contribution to environmental protection. Assessment of the recycling costs alternatives for certain preliminary and conceptual design in the product development phase, including the ability to choose different materials for individual parts of the product forms is the basis for managing the recycling costs. This paper presents an application of fuzzy neural network for assessment recycling costs in the product development phase for a single row cylindrical roller bearings.

Keywords

• recycling
• costs
• fuzzy-neural networks