Exploring the Application of Lean Best Practices in Remanufacturing: Empirical Insights into the Benefits and Barriers

Remanufacturing processes have been widely identified as being important elements of a sustainable economy. However, the commercial viability this product recovery route is significantly influenced by several operational challenges that are different from those occur in conventional manufacturing. One most used systematic process improvement methods manufacturing lean production, which seeks to minimize all forms waste throughout an operation. As academic study best practices remanufacturing relatively new, there lack knowledge regarding implementation and impact. such, paper presents multiple case studies investigating application industrial operations. These focus on automotive industry, where both operations leading adopters thinking practice. The results investigation identify specific help manage inherent complexity processes, consequently improve overall productivity process. Similarly, factors limit within also discussed. Matrices for opportunities threats developed enable simple adoption these findings. Overall, research provides more holistic understanding environment, with benefits academia industry.