Information handling system micro manufacturing center for reuse and recycling factoring carbon footprint
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsJohn Trevor Morrison, Jace W. Files, Katie Elizabeth Green
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Abstract
Information handling systems are transported to a selected of plural micro manufacturing centers for harvesting of component modules to reuse in remanufactured information handling systems through an automated process that uses a robotic arm to harvest the component modules and rebuild the information handling systems. Component module health lifecycle information is applied to select components for harvesting. Carbon footprint, energy consumption, costs, any manual labor involved and time criticality are factored to select a geographical location to harvest the component modules and to send the system to subsequent end user locations.
Claims20
A system for information handling system manufacture, the system comprising:
- plural geographically distributed micro manufacturing centers;
- a lifecycle server information handling system interfaced through a network with plural distributed information handling systems to track a lifecycle of plural components included in each of the plural distributed information handling systems;
- a power source server information handling system interfaced through the network and operable to communicate types of energy associated with the plural geographically distributed micro manufacturing centers;
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- a remanufacture server information handling system interfaced with the lifecycle server information handling system and the power source server information handling system, the remanufacture server information handling system selecting a component from the plural distributed information handling systems to reuse at a selected of the plural geographically distributed micro manufacturing centers in a remanufactured information handling system based at least in part on a carbon footprint of the reuse of the component derived from the types of energy.
A method of automated reuse of components used in distributed information handling systems comprising:
- distributing plural micro manufacturing centers geographically;
- tracking energy sources associated with the plural micro manufacturing centers;
- tracking lifecycle information of the components when the components are used in the information handling systems;
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- selecting a component of a distributed information handling system for reuse in a remanufactured information handling system based at least in part on a carbon footprint of the reuse of the component derived from the type of energy of the energy sources.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.