Abstract:
Product waste is becoming a big problem in our life. In order to
reduce waste and efficiently use resources, product can be
remanufactured, and its materials can be recycled to achieve better
sustainability. In comparison with recycling materials,
remanufacturing products can retain all the value added, so
potentially it has high profitability and sustainability. Despite its main
advantage of retaining the value of the products, remanufacturing is
an area that is not widely practiced due to the high costs of
remanufacturing and reverse logistics facilities.
As a result of this, the cost components had to be researched in order
to ascertain the costs involved in the process of remanufacturing. The
identification the cost drivers in each of the process provided the
basis for a generic framework to be developed which gives
remanufacturers a template to determine the economic benefits of
remanufacturing from a whole systems point of view including the
reverse logistics.
Through the use of a specified methodology, this research aims to
capture all the costs involved in the whole systems remanufacturing
process given that the previous models that exist do not propose a
costing model for both reverse logistics and remanufacturing.
Ready to Use Additive Manufacturing – RUAM is a technique for
creating robust three dimensional metal objects. It is application in
the framework allows for the refabrication of EOL products.