Assessing Automotive Parts for Remanufacturing
2021 (English)In: Paper 11 at the International Conference of Remanufacturing (ICoR-21), 2021, article id 11Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
Abstract [en]
There is a continuous flow of new products put on the market by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). In order to retain value that is put into them during manufacturing these products can be remanufactured for economic, environmental and social reasons. This has beenthe case for many decades in industrial sectors, for example, the automotive industry. However, the automotive industry is currently changing much in recent years due to trends ofelectrification and servitization.Stable technology, high after-use value and replaceable parts are typical attributes of aproduct suitable for remanufacturing. In addition, if products are servitized e.g. through leasingor sharing there are additional economic reasons to remanufacture. However, all products andparts are not suitable for remanufacturing while other products and parts are more suitable forremanufacturing. In a remanufacturing of electric vehicles, the need to define a set of partssuitable for remanufacturing becomes crucial.The aim of this paper is to explore new ways of understanding which parts that should beselected for remanufacturing in the future automotive aftermarket. The research methodologyused to meet the aim of this paper is literature search and case studies at electric vehiclemanufacturers and remanufacturers based in Europe. During the case study data was collectedthrough observations, semi-structured interviews and disassembly activities along the productvalue chain of electric vehicles including manufacturers, dismantlers and remanufacturers.To define a set of parts for remanufacturing an assessment of the price and quantity of soldparts in an aftermarket, costs for remanufacturing process as well as the interdependency of theparts based on a product structure was accomplished. The results show that there are attributesderiving from the categories of economics, technology, and environment. This means in generalterms that the remanufacturing is profitable, technologically possible and sound from anenvironmental perspective. For the different product parts these attributes were differentlystrong and motivating the initiation to remanufacture.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2021. article id 11
Keywords [en]
Remanufacturing, Electric vehicles, Product attributes, Design for Remanufacturing, Circular Economy
National Category
Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-187140OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-187140DiVA, id: diva2:1685852
Conference
International Conference of Remanufacturing (ICoR-21), March, 24-25, 2021(digital)
Projects
SE:Kond 2 Life
Funder
Vinnova, 2019-044632022-08-052022-08-052022-08-12Bibliographically approved