Addressing decision making for remanufacturing operations and design-for-remanufacture

Ijomah, Winifred

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“…" Hauser and Lund (2008), however, state that: "Remanufacturing is the process of transforming durable products that are worn, defective, or discarded to a 'like new or better' condition through a production-batch process of disassembly, cleaning, refurbishment and replacement of parts, reassembly, and testing." Following this definition, Ijomah (2009) …”

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Viability of remanufacturing practice: a strategic decision making framework for Chinese auto-parts companies

Abdulrahman

Subramanian

Liu

et al. 2015

Journal of Cleaner Production

114

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Remanufacturing is a sustainable and proven profitable practice in the western world.Research on remanufacturing practices is relatively unexploited in China, despite being the "global factory" and both the world's largest automobile manufacturer and vehicle market.The increasing amount of automotive output and End-of-Life vehicles (ELVs) in China provides Chinese auto-parts companies with significant potential for environmentally conscious manufacturing and product recovery. Using case studies, we have investigated the status of remanufacturing practices, key determinants for strategic decision making to remanufacture in-house, outsource remanufacturing and/or not to engage in remanufacturing in Chinese auto parts firms using an analytical hierarchy process (AHP). This study suggests that Chinese firms are keen to adopt remanufacturing practice in-house compared to outsourcing despite a lack of technical and managerial capabilities.Key words: Remanufacturing, automotive, China, strategic decision making, analytical hierarchy process (AHP) INTRODUCTIONThe unprecedented and sometimes wasteful use of the environment as the natural provider of resources and sink for discarded end-of-life/end-of-use products and waste is proving to be unsustainable. There is increasing realization that manufacturing needs to produce more with less and different raw materials, to be ethical and sustainable. Achieving this will require materials wastage to be reduced and production to more closely match demand. This is why manufacturing firms, especially original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and their suppliers, are under increasing pressure from stakeholders, including regulators, customers and employees to produce ethically, reuse/recycle, remanufacture, and/or to safely discard 3 their waste in accordance with the absorptive and regenerative capacity of the planet (Barker and Zabinsky, 2011).Of the many sustainable strategies, tools and techniques developed over the years aimed at improving productivity and economic longevity of manufacturing businesses, remanufacturing plays an important role. Remanufacturing has resulted in increased profits and market share for manufacturers in Western countries (Jayaraman and Luo, 2007;Giannetti, 2012). Remanufacturing further benefits businesses in terms of cost saving from reduced resource requirements, through assets recovery and reusing/recycling, cost savings from not using landfills, expanded product life cycle, increased employment rate and improved brand image (Sarkis, 2010;Kapetanopoulou and Tagaras, 2011;Zhang, et al., 2011).The automotive industry is one of the leading industries in remanufacturing and product recovery strategy, with 70% of all remanufacturing companies being in the automotive sector (Steinhilper, 2011;Zhang, et al., 2011). Furthermore, of all major products that are being The major motivation for this study is to (i) develop a remanufacturing decision-making framework for the Chinese auto-parts manufacturers' strategic decisions to either engage in the rem...

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Section: Remanufacturing Literature Reviewmentioning

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Viability of remanufacturing practice: a strategic decision making framework for Chinese auto-parts companies

Abdulrahman

Subramanian

Liu

et al. 2015

Journal of Cleaner Production

114

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“…This uncertainty stems from the lack of information flow between early life cycle phases (in particular the use phase) and the remanufacturer. There are three main uncertainties present in remanufacturing systems; the condition (Galbreth and Blackburn, 2010;Guide, 2000), the design and physical structure (Ijomah, 2009), and the timings and quantities of product returns (de Brito and van der Laan, 2009;Ferrer and Ketzenberg, 2004;Inderfurth, 2005).…”

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“…Depending upon the business scenario, remanufacturing can potentially offer customer benefits through reduced cost and time and improved quality, compared to alternative strategies. Photocopiers (Kerr and Ryan, 2001), Aero Engines (Ijomah, 2009) Economic savings within remanufacturing, relative to traditional manufacturing, are primarily attributed to reduced material and processing costs. These arise from the reuse of a product which enables both the material content and the embodied energy of the original manufacturing process to be retained (Thierry et al, 1995).…”

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“…One EoL activity that has drawn particular interest is remanufacturing. Remanufacturing is the process of returning used, damaged or discarded products up to the quality standards of new products and with an equivalent warranty (Ijomah, 2009;Thierry et al, 1995). Remanufacturing differs from other forms of reuse, such as repair or reconditioning, due to the higher quality to which a product is returned.…”

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A review of the state of the art in tools and techniques used to evaluate remanufacturing feasibility

Goodall

Rosamond

Harding

2014

Journal of Cleaner Production

142

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“…Products that are originally design for disassembly would generate a higher disassembly yields than those that are not originally designed for disassembly because of the damaged during disassembly. Thus, it is important to integrate product design in the product development process in order to reduce damaged components (Ijomah, McMahon, Hammond, & Newman, 2007a;Ijomah, 2009;Barquet, Rozenfeld & Forcellini, 2013).…”

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An Overview of Used-Products Remanufacturing

Andrew-Munot¹,

Ibrahim²,

Junaidi³

2015

MER

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Remanufacturing is an important production activity, which is mainly driven by the increasingly strict environmental regulations imposed by governmental bodies, growing customers' awareness of green environment and potential economic benefits of remanufacturing. In this paper, the key motivating factors for companies to engage in remanufacturing program are examined. The major sources for acquiring used-products and the subsequent markets for selling remanufactured products are also examined. More importantly, the generic-key remanufacturing processes are examined and the corresponding unique characteristics are highlighted. Four examples of remanufacturing process of different products are presented to demonstrate that exact number and sequence of remanufacturing process largely depended on the type of product being remanufactured. In sum, this paper presents an overview of used-products remanufacturing, which in many ways would benefit the general public, environment, manufacturers/remanufacturers, as well as researchers.

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Addressing decision making for remanufacturing operations and design-for-remanufacture

Abstract: In recent years concern about the effect of modern production on the planet has lead to international legislation to limit the levels of virgin materials in production, landfill

Cited by 101 publications

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Viability of remanufacturing practice: a strategic decision making framework for Chinese auto-parts companies

Viability of remanufacturing practice: a strategic decision making framework for Chinese auto-parts companies

A review of the state of the art in tools and techniques used to evaluate remanufacturing feasibility

An Overview of Used-Products Remanufacturing

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