Saving product lives in global and local remanufacturing networks: a scientific and commercial work report and an outlook

Abstract

Remanufacturing is becoming the standard term for recycling by manufacturing "good as new" products from used products. The paper presents 10 thesis to characterize the perspectives of remanufacturing such as markets and legislation, global dimensions, managing safety and reliability issues, essential strategy for affordable spare parts, reuse and repair concepts, multiple and migratory use of products, product cleaning process and test routines, profit from networking and product remanufacturing to modernisation factories.