Remanufacturing is the process of restoring used products to a “common operating and aesthetic standard”. Remanufacturing tends to capture the functional value of used products whereas recycling captures material value and reuse extends product lifetimes. Interest in remanufacturing systems is increasing due to policies and initiatives that aim to evolve linear to circular economy strategies.
Remanufacturing has been identified as having significant financial and environment benefits, however, critical challenges still remain in designing and operating remanufacturing processes and systems. These challenges are complex, spanning all product life cycles and encompassing multiple disciplines within and outside of engineering. Reverse logistics optimization, designing products for disassembly, and remanufacturing automation describe only a few of the major topics that are currently being addressed by leading remanufacturing industries and researchers.
IWAR 2024 aims to bring together the leading innovators in autonomous remanufacturing in an effort to strengthen the body of knowledge on design, modelling and control of remanufacturing processes and systems. Contributions are accepted on topics related to many remanufacturing fields, included but not limited to the topics listed below.
Topics
- Operations Management in Remanufacturing
- Design for Remanufacturing
- Quality Assurance in Remanufacturing
- Design for Disassembly and Disassembly Planning
- Virtual, Augmented, and Cross Reality in Remanufacturing and Disassembly
- Cloud Remanufacturing
- Autonomous Remanufacturing
- Robotics for Remanufacturing
- Human Robot Cooperation in Remanufacturing
- Reverse Logistics for Remanufacturing Supply Chains
- Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing for Technology Selection in Remanufacturing
- Industry 4.0 and/or 5.0 in Remanufacturing
- Machine Learning and Analytics Approaches in Remanufacturing
- Cybersecurity in Remanufacturing
