Preliminary framework for decision making on additive manufacturing technologies for the remanufacture of combustion engine components

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Ruggaber, Sascha and Butler, David and Ijomah, Winifred L. and Hague-Morgan, Michael (2019) Preliminary framework for decision making on additive manufacturing technologies for the remanufacture of combustion engine components. In: International Conference on Remanufacturing 2019, 2019-06-23 - 2019-06-25, RAI.

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Abstract

Since the remanufacture of combustion engines was first put into practice during World War II, the design of engines has changed significantly. Increased material choice has led to engines becoming lighter weight while, at the same time, engines have become more sophisticated. Manufacturing designs and methods have been further developed to support the manufacturing of these later generation engines, the same has not been the case for the remanufacturing of the engines and their components. Currently, the technology and methods employed to recover engine components have not maintained the pace with the newer technology. Therefore the remanufacturing opportunities on modern engines are more limiting, especially when it comes to a second and third life cycle. To overcome the challenges encountered, remanufacturers have to adapt and advance remanufacturing methods. This is especially true to compete with a typically low volume remanufacturing operation against the highly optimised mass production of new engines. The data used in this paper has been gathered in an industrial environment and was provided by a brand independent contract remanufacturer. The engines remanufactured originate from various brands with a wide range of applications in the automotive and HDOR sector. The data is collated and anonymised for this paper which aims to deliver a preliminary framework to identify technologies that offer great potential to both economically recover currently remanufactured components and potentially new components.

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Ruggaber, Sascha, Butler, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9952-8670, Ijomah, Winifred L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0652-1486 and Hague-Morgan, Michael;
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