Center for Remanufacturing and Reuse Newsletter

I have been registered to Center for Remanufacturing and Reuse (CRR) newsletters for a while. I find it very useful and up-to-date to stay abreast of the developments in reman industry, particularly in Europe.

Newsletter for the month of June is just out and can be found here.

You can register for the forthcoming newsletters here and read the past issues here.

New book!

My new book came out just two weeks ago! It's very exciting to finally being able to share all the knowledge I gathered through years of research and consulting. It's now on sale on amazon.com. This is a brief excerpt from the book:

In recent years, manufacturers are increasingly urged to reduce their waste and take steps for sustainable manufacturing practices. End-of-life or end-of-use product returns have increased considerably. Companies that manage their closed loop supply chains by taking advantage of returned products have the potential to make waste reduction and environmental regulations compliance profitable. However, as closed loop supply chains evolved swiftly and the value trapped in products increased dramatically, managers lacked the resources to turn on to create successful business models regarding their closed loop supply chains. OEMs have long been struggled with the question of how to organize product returns and remanufacturing to reap benefits from their product returns. Plagued by uncertainties in market and technology, this issue quickly moved up in companies’ strategic agendas. In this book, I provide a framework to guide companies in planning their closed loop supply chains and offer cases from industry. I walk them through a business model resulted from extensive data analysis and scientific research and give business model examples from Fortune-100 companies. Managers will find the relationship between brand capital, intellectual property and assets, and the decision to outsource intriguing. Cases conducted at companies such as Bosch, HP and Xerox provide various learning opportunities.

Remanufacturing and the circle economy

A recent post by Joe Laur explains how a closed loop supply chain can help economy by reducing waste. A short excerpt:

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Xerox has been designing copiers to be disassembled, remanufactured, and recycled for years and gains over $400 million in annual direct-to-the-bottom-line savings from utilizing recovered components.

BMW and other automakers have found a compelling harvest of economic value in taking back automobiles at the end of their lifetime and designing them so that whole portions, such as dash panels and doors, can be recovered and re-used easily, as has Pratt and Whitney in the remanufacturing of aircraft engines


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