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Home Courses Waste Management and Critical Raw Materials Course materials Lectures 5.2.2 Product design in relation to remanufacturing

5.2.2 Product design in relation to remanufacturing

Course subject(s) Module 5. Resource efficiency by product design, production and substitution of materials

Remanufacturing products is economically viable when the product can be easily disassembled. In that case the throughput is high and labour and processing costs are low. Designing products with remanufacturing in mind is therefore important. Maud Rio gives an overview of guidelines and methods in this video.

https://youtu.be/Ps7P2IYS3HI

Main takeaways

  • Thinking of CRM recovery as early as product design is essential.
  • Methods exist to anticipate material recovery.

Some extra reading, in case you’d like to explore this topic further:

Brissaud, D., Tichkiewitch, S., Zwolinski, P., International Institution for Production Engineering Research (Eds.), 2006. Innovation in life cycle engineering and sustainable development. Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands.

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