Identification of approaches for remanufacturing 4.0

Butzer, Steffen; Kemp, Daniel; Steinhilper, Rolf; Schötz, Sebastian

doi:10.1109/e-tems.2016.7912603

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“…BDA, in contrast to the discussions of AM, has been considered less frequently by experts and no perspective on exploiting BDA for improving CE practices was prevalent. Even if BDA is generally known as one of the easiest ways to digitise the CE (Cattelan Nobre and Tavares 2017), other perspectives have been discussed, like exploiting it: (i) to develop automated x (Baines 2015) x (Bianchini et al 2018) x (Bressanelli et al 2018b) x (Bressanelli et al 2018a) x (Butzer et al 2016) x (Chang, Ong, and Nee 2017) x (de Man and Strandhagen 2017)…”

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Assessing relations between Circular Economy and Industry 4.0: a systematic literature review

Rosa

Sassanelli

Urbinati

et al. 2019

International Journal of Production Research

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Industry 4.0 (I4.0) and Circular Economy (CE) are undoubtedly two of the most debated topics of the last decades. Progressively, they gained the interest of policymakers, practitioners and scholars all over the world. Even if they have been usually described as two independent research fields, there are some examples presenting overlaps between these topics, represented by hybrid categories like Circular I4.0 and Digital CE. Starting from these two perspectives, an innovative framework both highlighting the links between I4.0 and CE and unveiling future research fields has been developed. Basing on one of the two perspectives, results show as it is possible to enhance a set of different relations. Depending on a dedicated area of either CE or I4.0 it is possible to see the prevalence of some I4.0 technology than others. However, the influence of I4.0 technologies on CE is always verified.

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Assessing relations between Circular Economy and Industry 4.0: a systematic literature review

Rosa

Sassanelli

Urbinati

et al. 2019

International Journal of Production Research

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“…In manufacturing, the application of smart factory principles and technologies is already underway (Ghobakhloo, 2019) driven by a number of original equipment manufacturers (OEM) (Tolio et al , 2017), and research consortia (Bueno et al , 2017). Remanufacturers can learn from these applications but as they generally operate in a lower technology environment (Butzer and Schötz, 2016) with different management strategies, a smart factory vision specifically for this industry in needed.…”

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Smart remanufacturing: a review and research framework

Kerin

Pham

2020

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PurposeTo review the state-of-the-art in smart remanufacturing, highlighting key elements of an Industry 4.0 (I4.0) future that supports circular economy (CE) principles and offer a conceptual framework and research agenda to accelerate digitalisation in this sector.Design/methodology/approachThe Scopus, Web of Science and ScienceDirect databases and search terms “Industry 4.0”, “Internet of things”, “Smart manufacturing” and “Remanufacturing” were used to identify and select publications that had evidence of a relationship between those keywords. The 329 selected papers were reviewed with respect to the triple bottom line (economic, social and environmental). The study benefited from advanced text quantitative processing using NVivo software and a complete manual qualitative assessment.FindingsChanges in product ownership models will affect the remanufacturing industry, with the growth of product-service-systems seen as an opportunity to re-circulate resources and create value. This is being supported by changes in society, user expectations and workforce attributes. Key to the success of remanufacturing in an I4.0 future is the uptake of existing and emerging digital technologies to shorten and strengthen links between product manufacturers, users and remanufacturers.Originality/valueRemanufacturing is recognised as a key CE strategy, which in turn is an important research area for development in our society. This article is the first to study “smart remanufacturing” for the CE. Its uniqueness lies in its focus on the remanufacturing industry and the sustainable application of I4.0 enablers. The findings are used to create a framework that links to the research agenda needed to realise smart remanufacturing.

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“…As remanufacturing is primarily driven by the relationship between the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and the third party remanufacturer (TPR), the uptake of I4.0 by the OEM is expected to affect remanufacturing and slowly driving remanufacturing towards end-to-end digitalisation of the physical assets and the entire supply chain [31]. Butzer et al [7] describes this as remanufacturing 4.0.…”

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“…Smart remanufacturing, however, is relatively new and emerging research area in literature. It has been described as in various terms such as remanufacturing 4.0 [7], I4.0 enabled remanufacturing [27,62] data-driven remanufacturing [45], digital remanufacturing [52] as well as smart remanufacturing [28,63]. In their review studies on smart remanufacturing, Kerin and Pham [28] define smart remanufacturing as the utilization of I4.0 technologies on the product to be remanufactured as well as the remanufacturing processing equipment and business management systems.…”

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“…Kurilova-Palisaitiene and Sundin [30] had argued that the remanufacturing sector is even more complex than the manufacturing industry sector and hence, a blanket transfer of I4.0 paradigms to the remanufacturing industry sector will not be expedient [7]. It is also argued that an overarching definition must include a research agenda that extends into understanding the technological, business model, economic, social and environmental needs for smart remanufacturing [7]. This may also extend into smart remanufacturing factories [15,63].…”

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Towards a simulation-based understanding of smart remanufacturing operations: a comparative analysis

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While the majority of literature on remanufacturing operations examines an end-oflife (EOL) strategy which is both manual and mechanised, authors generally agree that digitalisation of remanufacturing is expected to increase in the next decade. Subsequently, a new research area described as digitally-enabled remanufacturing, remanufacturing 4.0 or smart remanufacturing is emerging. This is an automated, data-driven system of remanufacturing by means of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) paradigms. Insights into smart remanufacturing can be provided through simulation modelling of the remanufacturing process. While the use of simulation modelling in order to predict responses and behaviour is prevalent in remanufacturing, the use of these tools in smart remanufacturing is still limited in literature. The goal of this research is to present, as a first of its kind, a comparative understanding of simulation modelling in remanufacturing in order to suggest the ideal modelling tool for smart remanufacturing. The proposed comparison includes system dynamics, discrete event simulation and agent based modelling techniques. We apply these modelling techniques on a smart remanufacturing space of a sensor-enabled product and use assumptions derived from industry experts. We then proceed to model the remanufacturing operation from sorting and inspection of cores to final inspection of the remanufactured product. Through our analysis of the assumptions utilised and simulation modelling results we conclude that, while individual modelling techniques present important strategic and operational insights, their individual use may not be sufficient to offer comprehensive knowledge to remanufacturers due to the challenge of data complexity that smart remanufacturing offers.

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Identification of approaches for remanufacturing 4.0

Cited by 12 publications

References 9 publications

Assessing relations between Circular Economy and Industry 4.0: a systematic literature review

Assessing relations between Circular Economy and Industry 4.0: a systematic literature review

Smart remanufacturing: a review and research framework

Towards a simulation-based understanding of smart remanufacturing operations: a comparative analysis

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