Opportunities for Industry 4.0 to Support Remanufacturing

Applied Sciences

AravindRaghavendra M. R.¹  Helene Pepin¹  Jacek Kaminski¹  Shanshan Yang¹ 

[1] Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre (ARTC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 3 CleanTech Loop, 01/01, CleanTech Two, Singapore 637143, Singapore;

关键词: remanufacturing;    sustainable manufacturing;    Industry 4.0;    smart factory;    intelligent machining;   

DOI  :  10.3390/app8071177

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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 remanufacturing activities faces obstacles. This paper reviews the challenges encountered by the remanufacturing sector and discusses how the Industry 4.0 revolution could help to effectively address these issues and unlock the potential of remanufacturing. Two case studies are included in this paper to exemplify how technology enablers from Industry 4.0 can increase efficiency, reliability, and digitization of the remanufacturing process.

【 授权许可】

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