Recent trends and benefits of remanufacturing: from closed loop businesses to synergetic networks

R Steinhilper - Proceedings second international symposium on …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
By presenting a global perspective of current technology trends and business plans of key
remanufacturing activities in various industries, this contribution identifies remanufacturing …

Remanufacturing: evidence of environmentally conscious business practice in the UK

WL Ijomah, JP Bennett, J Pearce - … first international symposium …, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Remanufacture is the process of bringing a nonfunctioning complex assembly to" like-new"
functional state by replacing and rebuilding its component parts. Because remanufacturing …

Toward a life cycle design guideline for inverse manufacturing

Y Umeda - … on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For achieving the sustainability, it is essential to establish sustainable product life cycles that
minimize resource consumption and discharge of emissions and wastes, while keeping and …

Managing the remanufacturing organization for an optimal product life cycle

H Hermansson, E Sundin - 2005 4th International Symposium …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Remanufacturing is often a complicated process. An organization incorporated with
remanufacturing should consider different aspects of possible obstacles that can arise. This …

A robust description and tool for remanufacturing: a resource and energy recovery strategy

WL Ijomah, SJ Childe, GP Hammond… - 2005 4th International …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Developing sustainable approaches to manufacture is a critical global concern.
Remanufacturing, a process of bringing used products to a" like-new" functional state with …

Key design elements for the inverse manufacturing

Y Umeda - … on environmentally conscious design and inverse …, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sustainable production cannot be achieved just by encouraging energy and material
recycling of wastes. Rather we should establish closed-loop product life cycles. To do so, it …

Remanufacturing-the key solution for transforming" downcycling" into" upcycling" of electronics

R Steinhilper, M Hieber - Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
By presenting a global perspective of current technology trends and business plans of key
remanufacturing activities in various industries, this contribution identifies remanufacturing …

Life cycle simulation for the inverse manufacturing

A Nonomura, T Tomimaya… - … Conscious Design and …, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a methodology for configuring modular products and planning its
product life cycles at the conceptual design stage by simulating their life cycle models …

Life cycle design for inverse manufacturing

F Kimura - … on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse …, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For achieving feasible product performance throughout the whole life cycle of products, a
new approach to product life cycle design, called inverse manufacturing, is proposed, where …

Design for remanufacturing respecting reverse logistics processes: A review

A Taghipour, M Abed… - 2015 4th International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In these recent years, many organizations have started to consider the importance of green
manufacturing and take steps towards this new responsibility. Manufacturers try to achieve …