Method for assessment of reuse suitability within modular assembly systems

Abstract

Notes that suppliers of capital goods are challenged by new aspects of customer orientation – a change in the business relationship from the present sale of facilities to a provision of production ability for the customer. These problems apply especially to suppliers of assembly systems because their customers have become more demanding in terms of financial payback periods, and because of the high risks associated with advanced automation. All the risks for running a facility system and the tasks at the end‐of‐life are being relocated to the facility supplier without the necessary data, such as the reliability or mean‐time‐between‐failures of the modules. Presents a method which enables the facility suppliers to calculate the maintenance cost in the use phase, the costs and benefits for the retraction, remanufacturing, reuse and resale of their products as a basis of reliability and mean‐time‐between‐failure data of modules.

Citation

Weule, H. and Buchholz, C. (2001), "Method for assessment of reuse suitability within modular assembly systems", Assembly Automation, Vol. 21 No. 3, pp. 241-246. https://doi.org/10.1108/01445150110398837