
Innovating remanufacturing: disassembly andexploration of new practice in test facility environment(Innovate for remanufacturing)
Remanufacturing, an industrial process where products are restored to service life, is a circular flow that has great potential for both scale-up and profitability and that can significantly decrease the environmental impact of products in line with Net Zero ambitions. Additionally, remanufacturing provides resilience in a society that is currently dependent on just-in-time systems. Based on these premises, the Innovate for remanufacturing prestudy aims to ignite, innovate and facilitate remanufacturing by providing both expertise and infrastructure as an arena for innovating remanufacturing. In the project companies and researchers together innovate by dismantling products in different testbed environments in order to use expertise, technology and equipment to question established practices and together innovate for remanufacturing in design, product and production. The project make use of a selection of relevant testbed infrastructure that RISE holds (in total over 130) and the dismantling site of Inrego. Additionally, the project includes an educational module for introduction and inspiration to industry actors who want to explore remanufacturing as an opportunity for increased resource efficiency and resilience in their practices. The purpose of the project is to facilitate increased remanufacturing within the industry, and to contribute to the transition to a resource-efficient, circular and sustainable use of resources. Project results provide the basis for a well-defined step 2 project and for dissemination of lessons learnt industry wide through public material.