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Sustainable Industrial System 1SUSTAINABILITY OF MANUFACTURING ACTIVITIESA Research Paper on Mobility Scooter ByStudent’s NameName of the ProfessorInstitutional AffiliationCity/StateYear/Month/Day
Sustainable Industrial System 2INTRODUCTIONThis research paper involves the understanding of energy requirements of the electrical, structural, and miscellaneous components for the industrial processes performed during the manufacture of electric mobility scooter for the disabled. As a sustainability manager, there is need of evaluating the extent to which the Circular Economy concept can be implemented to the company and to the electric mobility scooter. There is also need of planning the future business model and products of the organization which may affect the sustainability of the organization. The description of the future sustainable industrial system in terms of the steps in the lifecycle ofthe electric mobility scooter after the energy and components flows have been made circular. Manufacturing industries account for an important part of the generation of waste and consumption of resources globally. These industries have the potential of creating a sustainable economy through designing and implementing integrated suitable practices and development of services and products which contribute to better performance of the environment. Companies have recently made positive efforts towards improvement of management systems and environmental strategies and also taking larger environmental responsibilities in the entire value chains. The adoption of more systematic and integrated approaches to improve the sustainability performance has laid the foundation for new modes of provision and business models which can possibly result in significant benefits to the environment[ CITATION All111 \l 1033 ]. A circular business model is as the way in which the electric mobility scooter manufacturing company captures, delivers, and creates value with the designed value creation to promote efficiency of material components by contributing to prolonging useful life of the parts and the mobility scooter product and closing the material loop. Efforts to implement circular
Sustainable Industrial System 3flow of materials and closed-loop systems have been specifically focused on revitalizing materials and products disposed into new production resources as illustrated in the figure below:Figure 1: Circular Economy[ CITATION Bak13 \l 1033 ]In the manufacture of electric mobility scooter fro be disabled, some of the components that are required include tyres, chassis, wheels, wheels, suspension, batteries, seat assembly, bodywork, motors, transmission system, upholstery, and switches. These components can be dividend basedon their sources or physical properties, namely, electrical, structural, and miscellaneous components[ CITATION Boc16 \l 1033 ]. Electrical PartsThe electrical components required in the manufacturing the electric mobility scooter for the disabled include circuit boards, wires, batteries, switches, and motors. Majority of these components are manufactured by the suppliers and then sent to the company to be assembled when manufacturing the electric mobility scooter. This makes their reuse and recycle a problem since the company lack the necessary equipment and expertise to handle such products. The major concern of the electronic components is the high energy consumption of the parts such as the electric motor and batteries. The company should also seek for more effective methods of
Sustainable Industrial System 4dealing with the disposal of these components. Currently, these are numerous electronic companies that are considering different technological advances in the form of process or product modification and re-designing these electronic components so that they can be recycled[ CITATION Boo09 \l 1033 ]. During the first step of disassembly of damaged or damped mobility scooter, the batteries, safe stock, and other hazardous components are removed. The flow of batteries can be made to be circular by replacing the lithium batteries with lead acid batteries since the lead batteries are well known technologies with efficient collection and recycling chain while the lithium batteries are a new technology with no efficient chain of recycling. Figure 2: Proposed lithium battery recycling process[ CITATION Cha091 \l 1033 ]The motors can first be dismantled to remove the components of the powertrain especially the permanent magnet. The permanent magnet is made up of boron, iron, and neodymium and the latter is the most significant component. This component can directly be reused in other powertrains. The recycling of neodymium can be done through hydrogen
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