Sustainability in remanufacturing process - the challenges for its assessment
[ 1 ] Katedra Zarządzania Produkcją i Logistyki, Wydział Inżynierii Zarządzania, Politechnika Poznańska | [ P ] employee
2018
chapter in monograph
english
- Remanufacturing
- Sustainability assessment methods
- Performance measurement
- OECD toolkit
EN The sustainability assessment gains a lot of interest among researchers and practitioners. The concept of sustainability is not precisely defined. For that reason translating it into measurable process characteristics is a challenge. The aim of this chapter is to identify the key requirements for measuring remanufacturing process sustainability, and addressing all three aspects of the triple bottom line—environment, economy and society. The literature provides many examples on environmental and economic benefits of remanufacturing. However there is research gap regarding the sustainability assessment methods and tools, which might be used to analyze the performance of remanufacturing process. This chapter presents the discussion on the concept of sustainability at a company level, and then the problems of sustainability performance measurement are addressed. The challenges for sustainability assessment of remanufacturing process are identified.
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