Proceedings of the Joint International Congress and Exhibition - Electronics Goes Green 2004, 2004

Application of Health Monitoring to Product Take-back Decisions

N. Vichare
P. Rodgers
M. Azarian
M. Pecht

Prognostics Health Management Group
Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

Abstract:
Health monitoring is emerging as one of the most promising developments for product in-service-reliability assessment and maintenance. This paper presents an overview of teh concepts used in current health monitoring approaches, with a focus on Life Consumption Monitoring (LCM). Its application to electronic systems is discussed. In addition to in-service reliability assessment and maintenance, health monitoring could also be effectively used for supporting product take-back and end-of-life descisions.

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