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What is Remanufacturing?

Mission Mobile Medical is proud to offer options for new mobile clinics built on a remanufactured chassis core. 

Remanufacturing is a comprehensive and rigorous industrial process by which previously sold products, you have heard of ‘cores’, are recovered and transformed into functional products which match the performance of newly manufactured products (Hamzaoui-Essoussi and Linton, 2014).

Amongst the many alternatives to product recovery options such as reuse, refurbishment or recycling, remanufacturing is deemed the most unique, as the considerable value from products will be retained through extension of the product lifetime (Charnley et al., 2019).

This allows remanufactured products to have new and multiple life cycles (San-Francisco et al., 2020; Östlin et al., 2009) with incremental upgrades.

Remanufacturing also plays a crucial role in reverse logistics (Jukun et al., 2008; Wen-hui et al., 2011) allowing the global transition towards a circular economy (Matsumoto et al., 2016; Singhal et al., 2020) and sustainable development (Gunasekara et al., 2018).

Remanufacturing processes comprise a number of complex and often sequential activities, including core acquisition, parts harvesting, disassembly, cleaning, inspection, reassembly, refurbishing, reselling, and some combinations of those activities (Lundmark et al., 2009; Savaskan et al., 2004).

The remanufactured products are then rebuilt to the specifications of the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) (King et al., 2006) using a combination of used/repaired parts with some brand-new parts before they undergo a thorough product testing.

As the aim is to restore products to ‘as-new’ condition (Garrido-Hidalgo et al., 2019), spare parts or components that cannot be refurbished to the original quality and specification are replaced (Goepp et al., 2014). Remanufacturing may also feature product upgrades by adding and improving parts or components that are prone to failure.