Remanufacturing Publications - Standards & Practices (all results)

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Standards: A review of terminology and practice in the spectrum of reuse - posted 08 Jul 2010
This report is a summary of research exploring remanufacturing in the context of a range of re-use practices. It attempts to differentiate practices by nomenclature and by the corresponding features, processes, and customer relationships.

Product Group report: Remanufacturing of small and medium wind turbines - posted 01 Apr 2010
This report, a follow-up to the 2008 Product Group report on the remanufacturing of wind turbines, delves deeper into the benefits and obstacles to remanufacturing of smaller units.

Purchaser Standards: Reuse of Office Furniture – Incorporation into the ‘Quick Wins’ criteria - posted 02 Dec 2009
This report aims to determine the furniture industry’s capability incorporate reused office furniture as part of a package of options for procurers. As well as gaining an understanding of the size of the industry, different business models were assessed.

Practice Guidelines: Development of a framework for assessing the economic benefits of remanufacturing - posted 10 Nov 2009
A cost estimation framework assessing the cost of a whole system of remanufacturing is a proper mean to assess the economic benefit of remanufacturing. This project examined the development of a generic framework for assessing the cost of the whole system

Practice Guide: Maximising re-use through end of life process – A Producer's Perspective - posted 22 Sep 2009
This 2008 paper explores the current IT re-use market and legislation to determine the optimum way of ensuring practical and environmentally sound re-use, as implemented by Dell Europe.

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Practice Guide: responsible end-of-life treatment of electronic components - posted 17 Sep 2009
This 2009 practice guide arose from work for electronics components group Premier Farnell in its desire to responsibly dispose of end-of-life electronic components.

Practice Study: Through Life Management - The provision of integrated customer solutions by aerospace manufacturers - posted 03 Sep 2009
This 2005 study presents the findings of a study into the UK Lean Aerospace Initiative, which investigates the drivers for through life management and the transition from manufacturer to service provider.

Practice Guides: Guidelines for the German implementation of the EU WEEE/ROHS Directives - posted 25 Aug 2009
These two 2008 guides describe an approach recommended by the German VDI 2343 Committee for the implementation by producers and remanufacturers of the EU WEEE/ROHS Directives, known locally as ElektroG.

Paper: A description of the design for end-of-life process - posted 10 Aug 2009
Global environmental challenges mean organisations must reduce their environmental impacts whilst maintaining profit margins. Landfill and recycling are common practices but are short-term solutions that overlook the potential for long-term gains.

Practice Survey: Reverse Logistics - how to realise an agile and efficient reverse chain within the Consumer Electronics Industry - posted 04 Aug 2009
This 2008 report from PricewaterhouseCoopers examines both the perceptions and practice of reverse logistics in the electronics industry as a waste management obligation; value-adding customer activity; or for value recovery in EoL operations.

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Remanufacturing Standards: BSI MADE 8887 series - posted 06 Nov 2007
There is a need for standards in certain remanufacturing industries to ensure that products labelled ‘remanufactured’ meet a build specification that is acceptable to the customer.