Circular leadership in manufacturing can learn from other successes in business and even nature. It borrows three qualities to overcome the complexity of circular leadership.
Research conducted by Sirris shows that ReX activities usually take place in-house, but the demand for collaboration is increasing. The recovery of used products and ROI are often stumbling blocks.
Can custom work companies take over steps in product repair and upgrade? The collaboration between Telenet and Vlotter ensures quality refurbished appliances and less waste.
The HEATReX project will put into practice ReX strategies in the context of a complex product like a heat pump and a ‘distributed’ ecosystem of installation, maintenance and service through dealers.
Can steps in product repair and upgrade be taken over by social enterprises? We are looking for the keys to success in such collaborations and can already present a first case: the refurbishing of On ...
The processes associated with product life extension require a different approach, often involving manual labour. The cost of labour, staff shortages, and the need for efficiency, along with numerous ...
You explore the 'inner circles of the circular economy' in your company and ecosystem: concepts with high potential for circular value retention, based on the 'R-strategies'. New terms are coming at you fast. Is it refurbishment, reconditioning or remanufacturing?
Are you convinced that remanufacturing makes sense for your product? If so, you may have already made an initial assessment of your remanufacturing business case, based on our practical tips. Now it's ...
If you want to set up activities such as remanufacturing and refurbishing, you must of course also have a return logistics system that supplies you with enough discarded products (cores). It is the quality, volume and frequency of this inflow that largely determines the economic feasibility of your ReX concept. The cost of purchasing cores depends on how you organise this. This article gives an overview of the most common strategies and factors that determine the acquisition cost.
Sometimes we hear that the low price is the only reason a customer would want to buy remanufactured products. That triggered us. We did some research and learned that there are more reasons to choose ...
