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R. Ambrosch, E. Ambrosch, R. Pamminger, S. Glaser, M. Regenfelder:
"Automation of Smartphone Disassembly: Collaborative Approach";
Talk: Going Green Care Innovation, Wien; 2018-11-26 - 2018-11-29.

The existing recycling technologies for electronics scrap focus on shredding devices into smaller fractions for recovery of prevailing valuable materials from integrated printed circuit boards (PCBs). By using metallurgic processes, many low volume materials such as rare earths metals and valuable still functioning integrated circuits (ICs) are lost during treatment.
The approach developed in the sustainablySMART project implies a collaborative disassembly unit which can be rearranged and adapted to different types of mobile phones and combines less invasive technology with manual labour. In the sustainablySMART project [1], a demonstrator was developed and tested using different smartphones.
The paper presents research results obtained during the development of a collaborative disassembly cell for mobile phones and shows the possibilities of the newest automation technology. Additionally, the environment impact of the disassembly cell will be assessed and it is outlined to which business models and value chains the developed technology contributes to.

mobile phones, disassembly unit, modular, collaborative, circular economy, sustainablySMART

https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/publik_282345.pdf