Abstract
In the face of worsening environmental problems, the manufacturing industry is required to reduce environmental loads and resource consumption over product life cycles while also responding to diverse user needs and not increasing costs. In this paper, we consider a circular factory in which remanufacturing is carried out not as an auxiliary means but as an alternative to conventional manufacturing. In the circular factory, products are reconfigured using reused modules extracted from returned products and newly produced modules without discriminating between virgin and reused products. We discuss the optimal method to reconfigure modules in order to reduce costs and environmental load while satisfying various user needs. The proposed reconfiguration method is applied to copy machines to demonstrate its effectiveness.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Re-Engineering Manufacturing for Sustainability - Proceedings of the 20th CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg |
| Pages | 603-608 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9789814451475 |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
| Event | 20th CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, LCE 2013 - Singapore, Singapore Duration: 2013 Apr 17 → 2013 Apr 19 |
Other
| Other | 20th CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, LCE 2013 |
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| Country/Territory | Singapore |
| City | Singapore |
| Period | 13/4/17 → 13/4/19 |
Keywords
- Circular factory
- Module reconfiguration
- Remanufacturing
- Reuse
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
- Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
