Hitachi, Ltd.

Motohisa Funahashi

Tomoyuki Hamada

Ichiro Nakamura

Akira Masaki

Kohji Kamejima

Masakazu Ejiri

Masami Yamasaki

Kichie Matsuzaki

Junichi Nishihashi

A resource recycling system and a product circulation system, wherein a search is made for information regarding specifications and production methods for a recovered product and an original product is produced with the recovered product used as resources. These systems include a plurality of production factories for producing a predetermined products, and housing a production apparatus and a reclamation factory. A communication network is connected for transmitting therebetween production information necessary for producing products. Also a recycle plate is created for identifying a production apparatus. The plate is used to transmit accounting information on an amount of money required to reproduce the product from the reclaimed resources. The reclamation apparatus also identifies a production apparatus by which a recovered product was produced, extracts production information on the recovered product and generates a disassembly procedure for the recovered product from the extracted production information.

Systems and methods for recycling resources and circulating products

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Sagamihara, Japan

Motohisa Funahashi