Evolutionary informatic process model for exploitation of worn-out products

Diagnosis and assessment and recycling planning are the two information-extensive processes in the inverse life-cycle of worn-out products. After the duality between production and recycling is identified, it is immediately seen that the process models of product development are totally unsuitable for the exploitation of worn-out products. This paper proposes an evolutionary informatic process model (EIPM) for the exploitation of worn-out products, intrinsically corresponding to the stratification of recycling. Moreover, specifications of EIPM are presented.