Remanufacturing as an Enabler for Green Service Models

  • Mitsutaka Matsumoto
  • Nabil Nasr
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Abstract

In today’s society, especially in developed countries, people enjoy materially affluent lives. This affluence presupposes the consumption of vast amounts of energy and material resources. Considering the world’s growing and increasingly affluent population, current consumption patterns lead to scarcity, volatility, and pricing levels that are unaffordable for our economy’s manufacturing basis (Ellen MacArthur Foundation 2013). Society needs to cope with these problems by substantially improving resource productivity. Though there are a number of requirements for realizing the green economy, such improvement of material resource productivity is a crucial element. Achieving this improved productivity requires a paradigm shift in industrial systems. This paradigm shift is possibly facilitated by manufacturing industries’ movement toward servitization. This chapter addresses the opportunities and challenges of the transitions.

Keywords

Product Service System Remanufactured Product Auto Part Mining Machine Corporate User 
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Acknowledgement

The authors are grateful to the interviewees who collaborated for the interviews conducted during 2012–2013 by the first author. The interviewees include persons from the following companies and associations: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.; Ricoh Company Ltd.; Canon Inc.; Komatsu Ltd.; Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.; Shin-Etsu Denso Co., Ltd.; Rentas Co., Ltd.; Times24 Co., Ltd.; and Japan Leasing Association.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Mitsutaka Matsumoto
    • 1
  • Nabil Nasr
    • 2
  1. 1.Advanced Manufacturing Research InstituteNational Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)Tsukuba, IbarakiJapan
  2. 2.Rochester Institute of TechnologyRochesterUSA

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