Title: Key decision-making areas of automotive engine remanufacturing: a case study

Authors: Kaustov Chakraborty

Addresses: Department of Operations and IT, ICFAI Business School (IBS) Hyderabad, IFHE (Deemed to be University), Hyderabad-501203, India; Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Ghaziabad, Raj Nagar, Delhi NCR-201007, India

Abstract: With the rapid change in technology and customisation of the product often lead to a shorter product life cycle. The shorter life cycle of the product demands the recovery of the remaining usable value from the end-of-life or end-of-use product. Remanufacturing operation is considered as the best recovery operation because the quality and warranty of the remanufactured product are 'as same as' the new product. Remanufacturing operation is successfully executed in developed countries, whereas the remanufacturing scenario in developing countries like India is not so organised. Thus, an exploratory study related to the remanufacturing process is required in the Indian context. The objective of this paper is to study the remanufacturing process and various key operational aspects of remanufacturing such as used product acquisition, reverse logistics, marketing of the remanufactured product in the Indian context. Further, the SWOT analysis is also performed.

Keywords: product recovery; remanufacturing; product lifecycle; case study.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLSM.2021.115794

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 2021 Vol.39 No.3, pp.333 - 358

Received: 27 Mar 2019
Accepted: 03 Jun 2019
Published online: 23 Jun 2021 *

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