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Barriers to effective circular supply chain management in a developing country context Open
Circular supply chain emphasizes surge in application of reuse, recycling and remanufacturing and thereby promotes the transformation of manufacturing characteristics from linear (‘take-produce-utilize-dump’) to circular model of flow of p…
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Application of Directed Energy Deposition-Based Additive Manufacturing in Repair Open
In the circular economy, products, components, and materials are aimed to be kept at the utility and value all the lifetime. For this purpose, repair and remanufacturing are highly considered as proper techniques to return the value of the…
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Remanufacturing, Third-Party Competition, and Consumers' Perceived Value of New Products Open
In this paper, we investigate whether and how the presence of remanufactured products and the identity of the remanufacturer influence the perceived value of new products through a series of behavioral experiments. Our results demonstrate …
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Digital twin-based WEEE recycling, recovery and remanufacturing in the background of Industry 4.0 Open
The waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) recovery can be categorised into two types, i.e. recycling at the material level and remanufacturing at the component level. However, the WEEE recovery is facing enormous challenges of d…
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Flexible Job-Shop Rescheduling for New Job Insertion by Using Discrete Jaya Algorithm Open
Rescheduling is a necessary procedure for a flexible job shop when newly arrived priority jobs must be inserted into an existing schedule. Instability measures the amount of change made to the existing schedule and is an important metrics …
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Environmental Dimensions of Additive Manufacturing: Mapping Application Domains and Their Environmental Implications Open
Summary Additive manufacturing (AM) proposes a novel paradigm for engineering design and manufacturing, which has profound economic, environmental, and security implications. The design freedom offered by this category of manufacturing pro…
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How circular is the circular economy? Analysing the implementation of circular economy in organisations Open
Circular economy (CE) has become one of the most recent ways to address environmental sustainability. CE activities focus exclusively on one of three levels (macro level, meso level and micro level). The majority of CE research has focused…
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Towards a framework of smart-circular systems: An integrative literature review Open
Profiting from the benefits of smart products connected through the Internet of Things (IoT) could disrupt business models and has the potential to foster a circular economy by embracing a performance economy. Extant literature has offered…
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Managing a closed-loop supply chain with process innovation for remanufacturing Open
Remanufacturing is an opportunity to deliver all-round sustainability benefits when products are de- signed accordingly. In this paper, we focus on the link between remanufacturing and the opportunity to lower the variable remanufacturing …
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Consumer attitudes and communication in circular fashion Open
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore consumers’ views and expectations on circular clothing. This paper also clarifies how the remanufacturing process should be communicated and circular fashion marketed to consumers. Design/met…
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Robot Assisted Disassembly for the Recycling of Electric Vehicle Batteries Open
The rising number of electric vehicles (EV) will eventually lead to a comparable number of EV batteries reaching their end-of-life (EOL). Efforts are therefore being made to develop technologies and processes for recycling, remanufacturing…
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Product-service systems business models for circular supply chains Open
Shifting supply chain architectures from ‘linear’ to ‘circular’ structures is imperative as businesses strive towards a circular economy ideal. Such a transformation requires innovation in the business models with impacts on value proposit…
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Steel’s recyclability: demonstrating the benefits of recycling steel to achieve a circular economy Open
In a world where the population is expected to peak at around 9 billion people in the next 30 to 40 years, carefully managing our finite natural resources is becoming critical. We must abandon the outdated 'take, make, consume and dispose'…
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Opportunities for Industry 4.0 to Support Remanufacturing Open
Remanufacturing is the process of bringing end-of-life products back to good-as-new. It plays a critical role in decoupling economic growth from growth in resource use, and in accelerating the circular economy. However, the uptake of reman…
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Value creation from circular economy-led closed loop supply chains: a case study of fast-moving consumer goods Open
The role of closed loop supply chains (CLSC) for creating and recovering value is widely acknowledged in supply chain management and there are many examples, mainly in the business-to-business sector, of successful OEM remanufacturing. The…
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Development of Sustainable Cold Spray Coatings and 3D Additive Manufacturing Components for Repair/Manufacturing Applications: A Critical Review Open
This review article presents the findings of a comprehensive state-of-the-art literature review of the scientific and technological progress of the cold spray process in the field of repair/remanufacturing using the concept of additive man…
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The Role of Laser Additive Manufacturing Methods of Metals in Repair, Refurbishment and Remanufacturing – Enabling Circular Economy Open
Circular economy is an economy model where products, components, and materials are aimed to be kept at their highest utility and value at all times. Repair, refurbishment and remanufacturing processes are procedures aiming at returning the…
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Circular Strategies Enabled by the Internet of Things—A Framework and Analysis of Current Practice Open
This paper focuses on how the Internet of Things (IoT) could contribute to the transition to a circular economy (CE), through supporting circular business model and design strategies. While literature has highlighted the opportunities for …
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Manufacturer-remanufacturing vs supplier-remanufacturing in a closed-loop supply chain Open
Remanufacturing at the component level could be performed by either a manufacturer or a supplier. In this paper, we analyze the performance of manufacturer-remanufacturing and supplier-remanufacturing in a decentralized closed-loop supply …
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Additive Manufacturing for Repair and Restoration in Remanufacturing: An Overview from Object Design and Systems Perspectives Open
Repair and restoration is an important step in remanufacturing as it ensures end-of-life products are returned to as-new condition before entering the subsequent life cycle. Currently, such processes are carried out manually by skilled wor…
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Smart remanufacturing: a review and research framework Open
Purpose To review the state-of-the-art in smart remanufacturing, highlighting key elements of an Industry 4.0 (I4.0) future that supports circular economy (CE) principles and offer a conceptual framework and research agenda to accelerate d…
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A robust optimization model for sustainable and resilient closed-loop supply chain network design considering conditional value at risk Open
One of the challenges facing supply chain designers is designing a sustainable and resilient supply chain network. The present study considers a closed-loop supply chain by taking into account sustainability, resilience, robustness, and ri…
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Eco-innovation and Circular Business Models as drivers for a circular economy Open
Eco-innovation is defined as any directed/oriented innovation aiming at reducing environmental impacts. Eco-innovation is not only a technology change; it also embraces organisational, social and system innovations. This systemic and compl…
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A competitive dual recycling channel in a three-level closed loop supply chain under different power structures: Pricing and collecting decisions Open
The past two decades witnessed the raise of closed-loop supply chain due to huge attention to the environment and business social responsibility. Both academia and industry have examined recycling and remanufacturing of the used products, …
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Core (product) Acquisition Management for remanufacturing: a review Open
Core acquisition is essential for the success of remanufacturing business. To describe the current status of the quantitative research in Core Acquisition Management and to indicate possible future research directions, a literature review …
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Disassembly sequence planning: Recent developments and future trends Open
Remanufacturing has gained increasing attention due to its economic, environmental and societal benefits as well as its contribution to the sustainability of natural resources. Disassembly is the first and usually the most difficult proces…
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Tunneling the barriers of blockchain technology in remanufacturing for achieving sustainable development goals: A circular manufacturing perspective Open
As a concern with manufacturing industries, circular economy (CE) practices—often labeled “circular manufacturing (CM)”—are industrial tasks through which several circular economy principles have been integrated. Among these circular manuf…
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Robotic disassembly sequence planning using enhanced discrete bees algorithm in remanufacturing Open
Increasing attention is being paid to remanufacturing due to environmental protection and resource saving. Disassembly, as an essential step of remanufacturing, is always manually finished which is time-consuming while robotic disassembly …
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Multiple closed loop recycling of carbon fibre composites with the HiPerDiF (High Performance Discontinuous Fibre) method Open
The aim of this article is to apply the concept of Circular Economy, where end-of-life products and production wastes are recycled into reusable materials, to carbon fibre reinforced plastics. This not only reduces the amount of material d…
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A Systematic Literature Review on Data and Information Required for Circular Manufacturing Strategies Adoption Open
In the extant literature, circular economy (CE) is considered a driver for sustainable development of the manufacturing sector, being it an industrial paradigm aiming at regenerating resources. CE is transferred to manufacturing companies …