Very few durable goods are recovered at the end of their useful lives. However, this situation could reverse with the development of a stronger remanufacturing industry in the economy. This paper evaluates the impact of remanufacturing in a hypothetical situation where remanufacturing holds a significant share of the economy, presently dominated by the original manufacturing industries. We adap...

This paper is a literature review of challenges within the remanufacturing system. The challenges in the remanufacturing system has been categorised in a collection phase, a remanufacturing process phase and a redistribution phase which the challenges have been presented according to. The causes and effects of each challenge have been explored and are presented in this paper. The final result i...

Using a Bass Diffusion model we investigate the effect of cannibalization within a hybrid manufacturing /remanufacturing/refurbishing system. The hybrid system consists of newly manufactured products, remanufactured products, and refurbished products. The impact of the collection, remanufacturing, and refurbishing ratios on economic performance are simulated and analyzed. We numerically calcula...

Researchers often regard remanufacturing as an environmentally beneficial end-of-life option. There have been, however, few environmental measurements performed in the area. The aim of this paper is to identify general environmental pros and cons with remanufacturing. This is done through the analysis of practical examples in remanufacturing industries. Life Cycle Assessment methodology has bee...

In this paper, seven remanufacturing companies are compared from a lean process perspective. Most of the companies experienced uncertainty regarding how many and when the cores arrived at the remanufacturing facilities, making planning more difficult. Furthermore, the companies reported high inventory levels as a problem. Hence, the companies often had a high number of cores, spare parts or hal...

The lean philosophy, which denotes business excellence through continuous improvement, originates from Japanese car manufacturer Toyota’s Production System (TPS). An area where lean is not fully explored is remanufacturing, a business that brings used products back to useful life. Remanufacturing is often a more complex process than manufacturing due to uncertainty of process steps/time and par...

Climate change reports and policies relating to end-of-use products, CO2 emissions, and energy are causingmanufacturers to examine their operations closely. Several reports have touted the economic and environmental benefits of remanufacturing, including claims of significant reductions in terms of energy and CO2 emissions. However, large-scale remanufacturing of heavy equipment engine componen...

Remanufacturing can bring considerable economic and environmental benefits such as cost saving, conservation of energy and resources, and reduction of emissions. With the increasing awareness of sustainable manufacturing, remanufacturing gradually becomes the research priority. Most studies concentrate on the analysis of influencing factors, or the evaluation of the economic and environmental p...

The design of products greatly influences the performance of the product in the rest of the product’s life-cycle phases, e.g. manufacturing, use/maintenance and end-of-life processes. In order to design more sustainable products, information from all life-cycle phases should be implemented in structured ways via e.g. eco-design tools in the design process. Remanufacturing is one viable end-of-l...

Remanufacturing as an industry can extend product life and service and even enhance its performance. The knowledge involved in remanufacturing industry is not as systematic and available as that in other industries. Knowledge management for remanufacturing industry is therefore challenging, and yet important as it is knowledge management has been proved in other industries as a tool in current ...