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Low parts utilization, high resource consumption, and low profit margins have become the main factors hindering the development of machine tool remanufacturing in China. A machine tool manufacturing company was taken as a case to investigate the improvement of the remanufacturing production line. The remanufacturing workshop and production line of the case enterprise have been completely re-planned, adding remaining life assessment, additive manufacturing, quality monitoring, and reassembly quality control. After applying the new production line, the energy consumption and water consumption of each remanufacturing machine tool were reduced by 29.87 kgce and 0.042 m3, respectively, and the pollutants generated were reduced by 4.352 kg. With the increase in remanufactured machine tool capacity, the part reutilization has increased by 26.9%. Despite satisfactory results, machine remanufacturing still faces many difficulties in China. Combined with case enterprises, the current situation of machine tool remanufacturing in China was discussed, and several suggestions for promoting remanufacturing in Chinese manufacturing companies were put forward.
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This work was supported by 2016 Green Manufacturing System Integration Project of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China under Grant [201675514] and National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant no. 52075088. The project has been successfully completed in early 2019. The information of the problem can be found on the website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China and other websites, e.g., 2016 Green Manufacturing System Integration Project Public Notice: http://www.ocn.com.cn/chanjing/201612/jyfwd16154404-2.shtml. 2019 Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China Green Supply Chain Management Demonstration Enterprises List: https://www.miit.gov.cn/n1146295/n1652858/n1652930/n3757016/c7413818/part/7413932.pdf. 2020 On the announcement of the acceptance of the mechanical and electrical products remanufacturing pilot unit list (the second batch) notice: http://finance.sina.com.cn/chanjing/cyxw/2020-12-31/doc-iiznctke9546831.shtml. The relevant data in this article are true and reliable, but some data sources (such as related financial status) involve the trade secrets of the enterprise and cannot be provided.
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Conceptualization: Xingyu Jiang; Methodology: Tianbiao Yu; Writing—original draft preparation: Boxue Song; Writing—review and editing: Qing Liu; Funding acquisition: Xingyu Jiang. Tianbiao Yu; Supervision: Song Wang.
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1. New remanufacturing production lines and remanufacturing systems.
2. Achieved energy-saving and material-saving, higher remanufacturing and reutilization rates.
3. Higher remanufactured machine tool sales and profits, and more jobs.
4. Urgent need for more financial and policy support.
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Song, B., Jiang, X., Wang, S. et al. The promotion and application of green remanufacturing: a case study in a machine tool plant. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 40870–40885 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-24722-x
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