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The severe competition in the market has driven enterprises to produce a wider variety of products to meet consumers ’ needs. However, frequent variation of product specifications causes the assembly and disassembly of components and modules to become more Not until recent years have people realized the impor-tance of environmental protection. People pay more atten-it is important to maximize the usage percentage of resources and minimize the damage to the environment neering design (Otto & Wood, 2001; Tseng & Chen, 2004). The so-called product life cycle refers to the total Instead, we need to solve the problem from the root of the enterprise activities, especially from the R&D of new products (Tseng & Chen, 2004). Many researchers have explored the issue from different points of view, such as design for environment (DFE), design for recy-cling (DFR), and design for disassembly (DFD) (Güngö