Designing for Reuse
Xerox has been able to maximize the end-of-life potential of products and components by incorporating reuse considerations into the design process. Machines are designed for easy disassembly and contain fewer parts. Parts are designed for durability over multiple product life cycles. Parts are also easy to reuse or recycle, and are coded with disposition instructions. As a result, equipment returned to Xerox at end-of-life can be remanufactured – rebuilt – to as-new performance specifications, reusing 70-90% by weight of machine components, while meeting performance specifications for equipment with all new parts.

Xerox has further extended its ability to reuse parts by designing product families around modular product architectures and a common set of core components. These advances offer Xerox multiple options for giving new life to old equipment. A returned machine can be rebuilt as the same model through remanufacture, converted to a new model within the same product family, or used as a source of parts for next-generation models.

Improved processes for forecasting equipment returns from customers have allowed Xerox to increasingly rely on previous generations of equipment as a source of components for products in development. Xerox products whose designs are based on previous models may have 60% of their parts in common with previous equipment. As the pace of technological innovation has shortened product life cycles, our ability to reuse parts across product generations has become increasingly important.

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