Driving circularity - An approach to identify potentials for circular design of automotive electronics
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In: Proceedings of the Design Society, Vol. 5, 01.08.2025, p. 1395-1404.
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T1 - Driving circularity - An approach to identify potentials for circular design of automotive electronics
AU - Peitzmeier, Henning
AU - Tebruegge, Claas
AU - Bouattour, Ghada
AU - Seibel, Arthur
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2025.
PY - 2025/8/1
Y1 - 2025/8/1
N2 - The amount of electronic waste worldwide is increasing every year and the often incorrect handling of it has a major impact on the ecosystem. As electronics are also gaining more share in the automotive sector, the industry has to find a suitable way of dealing with them at the vehicle's end-of-life stage. For this reason, this work introduces an approach consisting of the Physical Component Mapping (PCM) for the interface representation of automotive electronics, alongside the Eco-Sensitivity Framework (ESF) as guidance for circular automotive electronics design. A case study shows how the approach accompanies the product development process and supports identifying suitable strategies that are potentially possible or can be made available through design changes. This helps car makers and suppliers of vehicle electronics to accelerate their transition to a circular economy.
AB - The amount of electronic waste worldwide is increasing every year and the often incorrect handling of it has a major impact on the ecosystem. As electronics are also gaining more share in the automotive sector, the industry has to find a suitable way of dealing with them at the vehicle's end-of-life stage. For this reason, this work introduces an approach consisting of the Physical Component Mapping (PCM) for the interface representation of automotive electronics, alongside the Eco-Sensitivity Framework (ESF) as guidance for circular automotive electronics design. A case study shows how the approach accompanies the product development process and supports identifying suitable strategies that are potentially possible or can be made available through design changes. This helps car makers and suppliers of vehicle electronics to accelerate their transition to a circular economy.
KW - Automotive PCB
KW - Circular economy
KW - Electronic control unit
KW - Mechatronics
KW - sustainability
KW - Engineering
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105022812283&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/pds.2025.10153
DO - 10.1017/pds.2025.10153
M3 - Conference article in journal
AN - SCOPUS:105022812283
VL - 5
SP - 1395
EP - 1404
JO - Proceedings of the Design Society
JF - Proceedings of the Design Society
SN - 2732-527X
T2 - 25th International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 2025
Y2 - 11 August 2025 through 14 August 2025
ER -