Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Remanufacture
- Problems
- Random nature of
returns
- How will you know when a customer is
finished with a product?
- What will the condition of the product be at
the end of life?
- Will the product be changed? Altered?
Customized? Not worth returning?
- Timing of product
returns
- Random nature of returns means
you cannot know when a customer
will finish with a product
- Few customers will send a product back
straight away so remanufacture strategy
cannot start at day 1
- If a product is redesigned in any way, the
stock (collected or with customers) is
rendered useless and cannot be
remanufactured.
- You might get a lot of product back late in
the product life cycle ad no longer have a
market for remanufacture, even if the
products are as good as new
- Economics of
product returns
- Cost of returning the products back to a
remanufacture facility. Who pays?
- What portion of products will
be lost and not recovered
- Rival company could collect the
products and remanufacture them
- Is the business division that supplies
new products your biggest competitor
- Legal issues
- Is the end of life
product hazardous?
- Is it legal to transfer 'waste' by post?
- In every country you want to
collect/remanufacture from?
- Advantages
- Recovers a substantial proportion of the
resources embodied in the used product
- Diverts waste streams from just being reclaimed as material (or
landfill) by evaluating their potential to serve again
- Reduces the cost of susbsequent products
- Reduce dependency on raw material supply
- Sustain the economy 'consumer nation'
- Reduce energy bills
- Reduce carbon emissions
- Can be cost competitive
- Marketing- differenet to other rivals
- Collect product failure data
- Overcoming problems
- Focus the consumables
with quick turnaround and
repeat business
- Integrate remanufacture and
recycling to make use of surplus
- Control product returns through
incentives and collection schemes
- Retain product ownership to ensure
products return at the right time
- Focus the integral components that don't need
to change for styling reasons