Remanufacturing approaches contributing to sustainable engineering

Seliger, Günther; Kernbaum, Sebastian; Zettl, Marco

doi:10.1590/s0104-530x2006000300002

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“…A 4-axis robot arm was applied for performing unscrewing and handling operations. The robustness of the system was improved by transferring the monitor to the manual workplace in case of failing automated operations [21,22,71]. Hybrid cellular phone disassembly system…”

Section: Hybrid Disassembly System For Washing Machines and Combustiomentioning

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Efficiency and feasibility of product disassembly: A case-based study

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Section: Hybrid Disassembly System For Washing Machines and Combustiomentioning

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Efficiency and feasibility of product disassembly: A case-based study

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“…The research set out to measure the performance of a RL enterprise using agent-based modelling approach at operational level of management. The desired goal was achieved with the help of cell phone (Seliger, Kernbaum, and Zettl 2006). Based on the ABS results, remanufacturing 99,285 cell phones eliminates a total of 1,489,275 kg of CO 2 emissions.…”

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Performance evaluation of reverse logistics enterprise – an agent-based simulation approach

Pandian

Abdul‐Kader

2017

International Journal of Sustainable Engineering

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Reverse logistics (RL) has been applied in many industries and sectors since its conception. Unlike forward logistics, retracing consumer goods from the point of consumption to the point of inception is not a wellstudied process. It involves many uncertainties such as time, quality and quantity of returns. The returned products can be remanufactured, have parts harvested, or be disposed safely. It is important to implement these activities in a cost-effective manner. The aim of this research is to measure the performance of the RL enterprise with the help of an agent-based simulation model. The major entities in the RL network are considered as Agents that can act independently. There are several different agents: collector agent, sorting-cum-reuse agent, remanufacturing agent, recycler agent, supplier agent and distributor agent. The individual performances of the agents are measured and recommendations are given to improve their performance, leading to the enhancement of the total performance of the RL enterprise. The approach is applied to a case study involving cell phone remanufacturing.

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“…Reusing the phone reduces the environmental burden of manufacturing the product, provided that the effort of refurbishing it is not too great compared to the subsequent reuse time (Quariguasi‐Frote‐Neto and Bloemhof ; Seliger et al. ) or that the work is undertaken in areas with sufficient standards of labor protection (Yu et al. ).…”

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“…Possible methods of increasing the lifetime of the phone are export for reuse in a lower-value market (Most 2003;Osibanjo and Nnorom 2008) or repurposing for a different service, such as a parking meter (Zink et al 2014). Reusing the phone reduces the environmental burden of manufacturing the product, provided that the effort of refurbishing it is not too great compared to the subsequent reuse time (Quariguasi-Frote-Neto and Bloemhof 2012; Seliger et al 2006) or that the work is undertaken in areas with sufficient standards of labor protection (Yu et al 2012). This lifetime extension route may be hampered by the owner's attitudes and concerns over the risks to their personal data stored on the devices or systemic issues, such as phones being locked to a network ).…”

Section: Lifetime Extensionmentioning

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Integrating Environmental and Social Life Cycle Assessment: Asking the Right Question

Suckling

Lee

2017

J of Industrial Ecology

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Mobile phones offer many potential social benefits throughout their lifetime, but this life is often much shorter than design intent. Reuse of the phone in a developing country allows these social benefits to be fully realized. Unfortunately, under the current state of development of recycling infrastructure, recovery rates of phones after reuse are very low in those markets, which may lead to an environmental burden due to loss of materials to landfill. In order to recover those materials most effectively, recycling in developed countries may be the best option, but at a cost of the ability to reuse the phones. The issues facing integration of social and environmental concerns into a single life cycle assessment and resulting challenges of identifying the disposal option with the most sustainable outcome are explored using mobile phones as a case study. These include obtaining sufficient geographical and temporal detail of the end of life options, the collation and analysis of the large amounts of data generated and the weighting of the disparate environmental and social impact categories. The numerous challenges may mount up to make performing life cycle assessment of mobile phones unwieldy. Instead of trying to encompass every aspect in full, it is proposed that focus is given to answering a question which takes into account the resources available: it is important to ask the question which has the best chance of being answered

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Remanufacturing approaches contributing to sustainable engineering

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Cited by 22 publications

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Efficiency and feasibility of product disassembly: A case-based study

Efficiency and feasibility of product disassembly: A case-based study

Performance evaluation of reverse logistics enterprise – an agent-based simulation approach

Integrating Environmental and Social Life Cycle Assessment: Asking the Right Question

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