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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Remanufactured toner cartridges save money and environment:

An article from MITnews explains it brief and clear. Please read the article on how remanufactured toner cartridges can save you and your company money and help environment a bit too.

Xerox Remanufacturing in numbers

Although a little bit dated, this document here explains Xerox's green efforts through remanfacturing, reuse and recycle. Good information on how much Xerox diverted from landfills and how much Xerox achieved to reuse products and components. This document also involves a brief overview of the brilliant tools they use for diagnosing returned products' condition.

Read or download it here

Conair creates 350 jobs thorugh remanufacturing

Please read here how Conair will create 350 jobs through remanufacturing in Glendale.

UK leads the world in developing a remanufacturing standard

A new standard is under development: new British Standard BS8887-220: Design for manufacture, assembly, disassembly and end-of-life processing - Part 220: Remanufacture.

What does it do? (From Center for remanufacturing and Reuse)

his standard that defines the processes by which used product is turned, through a series of manufacturing of steps, into a like new product. The document is available for public comment and can be accessed through the BSI website (link on left - may require registration).

Remanufacturing is a proven way to extend the life of a product, whilst guarantying levels of performance and lifetime expected of a new product. This benefits the customer by providing lower cost high quality product; the remanufacturer who can produce these products at a fraction of the cost of producing new products; and the environment through to reduced resource use.

There is currently no way of determining the quality of a remanufactured product meaning purchasers cannot guarantee that it will perform as good as new. Through development of this standard, we hope to address this issue, give confidence to buyers and improve the profile of this sector.

The standard is open for public comment meaning you can directly influence its contents. If you are not happy with some of the wording or wish to see changes, now is the time to do it. It is important that we get this standard right, future remanufacturing standards will be built on it and there generally isn’t an opportunity to change it for the next three years!