Analyzing Joinery for Furniture Designed for Disassembly
End-users can design personalized furnishing products using remote web-based CAD systems. However, if these designs fail to incorporate design for disassembly (DfD) principles, the furniture’s subsequent repair, reconfiguration, recycling, and disposal can be significantly hindered. To address this...
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| description | End-users can design personalized furnishing products using remote web-based CAD systems. However, if these designs fail to incorporate design for disassembly (DfD) principles, the furniture’s subsequent repair, reconfiguration, recycling, and disposal can be significantly hindered. To address this drawback, this study supports DfD, a strategy that enables the creation of easily repairable, reusable, and recyclable furniture to reduce waste and environmental impact. Consequently, this review aims to classify and evaluate available furniture joinery systems for their suitability within DfD frameworks, ultimately promoting their implementation within CAD environments. To this end, various solutions were evaluated, including traditional joints, dowel/biscuit, hammered, directly screwed, snap-on, expandable, and cam/bolt fasteners. Based on a literature review and practical observations, the analyzed joinery systems were categorized into non-disassemblable, conditionally disassemblable, and fully disassemblable categories. Only the fully disassemblable solutions effectively align with DfD principles. The study postulates a preference for expandable and cam/bolt fasteners in furniture designs, noting that although snap-on fasteners can potentially support DfD, this outcome is not always ensured. To guarantee that the designed furniture adheres to the DfD principles, the following eight furniture design guidelines were formulated: develop web-accessible disassembly instructions, prioritize access to fast-wearing components, prioritize modularity, standardize parts in modules, label components, enable independent component removal, use materials that withstand repeated disassembly, and employ fully disassemblable joints. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b67d3315da4e4a7caef5d6c4d255e5ae2025-08-20T02:33:47ZengMDPI AGJournal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing2504-44942025-05-019516210.3390/jmmp9050162Analyzing Joinery for Furniture Designed for DisassemblyMaciej Sydor0Kacper Stańczyk1Department of Woodworking and Fundamentals of Machine Design, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, 60-637 Poznań, PolandDepartment of Woodworking and Fundamentals of Machine Design, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, 60-637 Poznań, PolandEnd-users can design personalized furnishing products using remote web-based CAD systems. However, if these designs fail to incorporate design for disassembly (DfD) principles, the furniture’s subsequent repair, reconfiguration, recycling, and disposal can be significantly hindered. To address this drawback, this study supports DfD, a strategy that enables the creation of easily repairable, reusable, and recyclable furniture to reduce waste and environmental impact. Consequently, this review aims to classify and evaluate available furniture joinery systems for their suitability within DfD frameworks, ultimately promoting their implementation within CAD environments. To this end, various solutions were evaluated, including traditional joints, dowel/biscuit, hammered, directly screwed, snap-on, expandable, and cam/bolt fasteners. Based on a literature review and practical observations, the analyzed joinery systems were categorized into non-disassemblable, conditionally disassemblable, and fully disassemblable categories. Only the fully disassemblable solutions effectively align with DfD principles. The study postulates a preference for expandable and cam/bolt fasteners in furniture designs, noting that although snap-on fasteners can potentially support DfD, this outcome is not always ensured. To guarantee that the designed furniture adheres to the DfD principles, the following eight furniture design guidelines were formulated: develop web-accessible disassembly instructions, prioritize access to fast-wearing components, prioritize modularity, standardize parts in modules, label components, enable independent component removal, use materials that withstand repeated disassembly, and employ fully disassemblable joints.https://www.mdpi.com/2504-4494/9/5/162design for disassemblyDfDdesign for deconstructiondisassembly-oriented designcradle-to-cradle designdesign for recycling |
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| topic | design for disassembly DfD design for deconstruction disassembly-oriented design cradle-to-cradle design design for recycling |
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