Adaptive remanufacturing for multiple lifecycles: A case study in office furniture

Krystofik, Mark; Luccitti, Allen; Parnell, Kyle; Thurston, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2017.07.028

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“…By prolonging the lifetime of such products, more function is delivered from the same product; therefore, the impact per function delivered decreases, which leads to relative resource decoupling. This is in line with the conclusions from a number of studies concerning passive durable products, which found environmental improvements when extending product lifetime (e.g., [24,[29][30][31][32][33]).…”

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Is Prolonging the Lifetime of Passive Durable Products a Low-Hanging Fruit of a Circular Economy? A Multiple Case Study

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Extending the lifetime of passive products, i.e., products that do not consume materials or energy during the use phase, by implementing product-service systems (PSS) has a potential to reduce the environmental impact while being an attractive and straightforward measure for companies to implement. This research assesses the viability of introducing PSS for passive products, by documenting five real product cases of prolonging the lifetime through repair or refurbishment and by quantifying, through life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle costing (LCC), the change in environmental and economic outcome. The environmental impact (measured as global warming potential over the life cycle) was reduced for all cases because extraction and production dominated the impact. This reduction was 45–72% for most cases and mainly influenced by the number of reuses and the relative environmental burden of the components whose lifetime was prolonged. The costs for the company (measured as LCC from the manufacturer’s perspective) decreased too by 8–37%. The main reason that costs reduced less than the environmental impact is that some costs have no equivalent in LCA, e.g., administration and labor costs for services. The decreases in both LCA and LCC results, as well as the willingness of the companies to implement the changes, demonstrate that this measure can be financially attractive for companies to implement and effectively contribute to a circular economy.

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Is Prolonging the Lifetime of Passive Durable Products a Low-Hanging Fruit of a Circular Economy? A Multiple Case Study

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“…Rock salt, solar salt, KCl waste salt, vacuum salt and solution-mined salt were studied. Membrane cells in both bipolar and monopolar configurations were studied and compared to the emergent oxygen-depolarised cathode (ODC, na produção de clínquer para a indústria de cimento (Ren et al, 2017) e na remanufatura de mobília de escritório (Krystofik et al, 2017). Além de dois artigos que abordam a produção industrial no contexto de um Arranjo Produtivo Local (APL), trabalhando também o conceito de simbiose industrial (Daddi et al, 2017;Yu et al, 2015).…”

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“…Castellani et al (2015) aplicaram ACV para quantificar emissões evitadas da reutilização de produtos de uma loja de segunda mão, como vestuário e móveis. Já Krystofik et al (2017), avaliaram os benefícios ambientais da remanufatura de móveis de escritório a fim maximizar o valor e utilidade dos mesmos. Esses resultados da ACV indicaram que a remanufatura é uma estratégia de negócios ambientalmente preferível, além de ser economicamente viável.…”

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Utilização da avaliação do ciclo de vida no contexto da economia circular: uma revisão de literatura

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Angelo

2020

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A Economia Circular (EC) é atualmente um conceito popular promovido por empresas, países e pela União Europeia, e representa uma racionalidade de maior eficiência no uso dos recursos, oposta à racionalidade linear de extrair-produzir-consumir-descartar. A literatura relata diversas iniciativas relacionadas à EC e à necessidade de quantificar o real benefício destas iniciativas. A Avaliação do Ciclo de Vida (ACV) é uma ferramenta que permite quantificar o impacto ambiental de produtos e serviços, podendo contribuir para a comprovação dos benefícios da EC. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar a utilização da ACV no contexto da EC. Para isso, foi realizada uma revisão da literatura nas bases de dados SCOPUS e Web of Science, utilizando o termo “life cycle” AND “circular economy”. Foram considerados todos os artigos publicados até 2017. Observou-se uma prevalência de estudos realizados no continente europeu, especialmente na Espanha, e de estudos relacionados ao gerenciamento de resíduos. A pesquisa exploratória ressaltou a importância da ACV para a promoção da EC, uma vez que permite quantificar os benefícios ambientais de suas estratégias – no âmbito do suprimento e produção, consumo sustentável e gestão de resíduos -, fortalecendo as proposições da EC. Além disso, observou-se a EC utilizada como base na definição de cenários alternativos que foram analisados com a ACV.

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“…So, Afrinaldi et al ( 2017 ) utilized the case study of remanufactured cylinder block to assess this index. Krystofik et al ( 2018 ) took Davies Office, Inc., as the research object to form the case which displayed that in the USA, the factors which influence the economic and the environmental impacts of remanufacturing office equipment are multidimensional. Disposed engines now are the major sources for remanufacturing in China, and Shi et al ( 2019 ) investigated a real case study on diesel engines to evaluate greenhouse gas (GHG) emission situation in northeast of China.…”

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Government regulation and enterprise decision in China remanufacturing industry: evidence from evolutionary game theory

Chen

Cao

Kumar

2020

Energ. Ecol. Environ.

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Currently, the large-scale industrial production has made mountains of scrapped products and inevitably exerts irreversible damage to the nature resource and environment. Under this real situation, remanufacturing industry is able to provide a new path for government and enterprises to deal with the scrapped products and find the new growth point of ecological economy. So, the problem that how to push forward the development of remanufacturing via the regulations of government has become the focus to the scholars and practitioners of enterprises. In this paper, the evolutionary game model was established in order to analyze the optimal strategies for both the government and the enterprises. Based on the obtained results from evolutionary game model, it shows that when the revenues gotten from supervision activities surpass the costs, government will supervise enterprises’ production pattern positively. Meanwhile, if the profits earned by polluted production are higher than it in remanufacturing production, enterprises will keep their patter of production, although they may face the penalties of government. Then, a case study based on the long-term perspective was introduced in order to verify the rationality of the game model in math. The result of this paper shows that the regulation of government will exert the significant influences to firms’ decision about remanufacturing. During the different periods of remanufacturing industry development, government regulations will make different influences.

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Adaptive remanufacturing for multiple lifecycles: A case study in office furniture

Cited by 59 publications

References 15 publications

Is Prolonging the Lifetime of Passive Durable Products a Low-Hanging Fruit of a Circular Economy? A Multiple Case Study

Is Prolonging the Lifetime of Passive Durable Products a Low-Hanging Fruit of a Circular Economy? A Multiple Case Study

Utilização da avaliação do ciclo de vida no contexto da economia circular: uma revisão de literatura

Government regulation and enterprise decision in China remanufacturing industry: evidence from evolutionary game theory

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