Decision makings in key remanufacturing activities to optimise remanufacturing outcomes: A review

Sitcharangsie, Sakraan; Ijomah, Winifred; Wong, T. C.

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.05.204

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“…Despite the need to strengthen information flow, the systematic analysis of the data and information required in CM to support the decision-making process has not been performed yet. Indeed, so far, few studies supporting the decision-making process focused on one single CM strategy (e.g., on remanufacture [32]) have been conducted. Therefore, out of all the past reviews, the peculiarity of this contribution is the investigation of the data required to approach and manage each single CM strategy, considering those identified in Acerbi and Taisch (2020) (i.e., circular design, disassembly, remanufacture, recycle, reuse, servitization, cleaner production, resource efficiency, waste management, industrial symbiosis, and closed-loop supply chain) [13].…”

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A Systematic Literature Review on Data and Information Required for Circular Manufacturing Strategies Adoption

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In the extant literature, circular economy (CE) is considered a driver for sustainable development of the manufacturing sector, being it an industrial paradigm aiming at regenerating resources. CE is transferred to manufacturing companies through the adoption of different Circular Manufacturing (CM) strategies (e.g., recycling, remanufacturing, etc.). Nowadays, manufacturers are struggling to implement these strategies to limit their resource consumption and pollution generation. To enable their adoption, the extant literature unveiled the importance to control along the entire value chain different types of resource flows (i.e., material, energy, and information). Nevertheless, while for material and energy management some advancements were achieved, information management and sharing remains one of the major barriers in adopting these strategies. The present work, through a systematic literature review, aims to identify the relevant information and data required to support the manufacturer’s decision process in adopting and managing the different CM strategies to pursue the transition towards CM. Furthermore, based on the results obtained, this research proposes a theoretical framework. It elucidates the four main areas to be managed by manufacturers in adopting CM strategies and it provides to the manufacturer an overview of what should be updated and upgraded inside the company to embrace CM strategies.

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A Systematic Literature Review on Data and Information Required for Circular Manufacturing Strategies Adoption

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“…Disassembly is also intricately linked to decisions about the end-of-use strategy [244], and the demand for saving components to reuse, remanufacture, etc. for usage in lifetime extension (Section 4.5) or repowering (Section 4.6).…”

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A Framework and Baseline for the Integration of a Sustainable Circular Economy in Offshore Wind

Velenturf

2021

Energies

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Circular economy and renewable energy infrastructure such as offshore wind farms are often assumed to be developed in synergy as part of sustainable transitions. Offshore wind is among the preferred technologies for low-carbon energy. Deployment is forecast to accelerate over ten times faster than onshore wind between 2021 and 2025, while the first generation of offshore wind turbines is about to be decommissioned. However, the growing scale of offshore wind brings new sustainability challenges. Many of the challenges are circular economy-related, such as increasing resource exploitation and competition and underdeveloped end-of-use solutions for decommissioned components and materials. However, circular economy is not yet commonly and systematically applied to offshore wind. Circular economy is a whole system approach aiming to make better use of products, components and materials throughout their consecutive lifecycles. The purpose of this study is to enable the integration of a sustainable circular economy into the design, development, operation and end-of-use management of offshore wind infrastructure. This will require a holistic overview of potential circular economy strategies that apply to offshore wind, because focus on no, or a subset of, circular solutions would open the sector to the risk of unintended consequences, such as replacing carbon impacts with water pollution, and short-term private cost savings with long-term bills for taxpayers. This study starts with a systematic review of circular economy and wind literature as a basis for the coproduction of a framework to embed a sustainable circular economy throughout the lifecycle of offshore wind energy infrastructure, resulting in eighteen strategies: design for circular economy, data and information, recertification, dematerialisation, waste prevention, modularisation, maintenance and repair, reuse and repurpose, refurbish and remanufacturing, lifetime extension, repowering, decommissioning, site recovery, disassembly, recycling, energy recovery, landfill and re-mining. An initial baseline review for each strategy is included. The application and transferability of the framework to other energy sectors, such as oil and gas and onshore wind, are discussed. This article concludes with an agenda for research and innovation and actions to take by industry and government.

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“…In the circular economy, remanufacturing has been proposed as an important business strategy to manage and improve resource loops (Jensen et al 2019). Compared with traditional manufacturing, the process of remanufacturing is more complicated due to the quantity and quality uncertainties of the used products to be returned (Sitcharangsie, Ijomah, and Wong 2019). These returned used products are often defined as cores, which are essential material resources for remanufacturing.…”

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Refund policies and core classification errors in the presence of customers’ choice behaviour in remanufacturing

Tang

Liu

Guo

et al. 2021

International Journal of Production Research

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In light of a circular economy, to encourage core returns, the remanufacturer charges a deposit and refund it to the customer based on quality inspection of cores. Generally, two types of classification errors exist and interact with each other during the inspection process: either low-quality cores are sorted as remanufacturable, or high-quality cores are sorted as non-remanufacturable. The remanufacturer needs to choose refund policies and determine a reasonable deposit value, considering customers' potential responses. This paper firstly develops analytical solutions for these issues within a game theory framework. The effect of inspection information transparency is evaluated by comparing two settings: the information of inspection errors is available to customers or not. The study results show the advantage of inspection information transparency from the remanufacturer's perspective. The analysis indicates the importance of avoiding overestimating customers' payoff of products and the significance of inspection accuracy. The study also highlights that the salvage value of different cores significantly influences the remanufacturer's profits, and the improvement of inspection accuracy does not necessarily reduce the customer's return of low-quality cores.

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Decision makings in key remanufacturing activities to optimise remanufacturing outcomes: A review

Cited by 74 publications

References 109 publications

A Systematic Literature Review on Data and Information Required for Circular Manufacturing Strategies Adoption

A Systematic Literature Review on Data and Information Required for Circular Manufacturing Strategies Adoption

A Framework and Baseline for the Integration of a Sustainable Circular Economy in Offshore Wind

Refund policies and core classification errors in the presence of customers’ choice behaviour in remanufacturing

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