TY - JOUR
T1 - Defining circulation factories - A pathway towards factories of the future
AU - Cerdas, Felipe
AU - Kurle, Denis
AU - Andrew, Stefan
AU - Thiede, Sebastian
AU - Herrmann, Christoph
AU - Zhiquan, Yeo
AU - Jonathan, Low Sze Choong
AU - Bin, Song
AU - Kara, Sami
N1 - Conference code: 22
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Manufacturing companies are increasingly perceived not only on the basis of their products but also of their factories and their embedding within the environment. For this reason, both existing and future factories face the challenges posed by a dynamic and changing market environment. Thus, a gradual change from a throughput to a circular economy leads to the emergence of two categories of factory systems. One category is producing goods, while the second one is recovering and treating waste, residues and the rest of the product at the end of its life. Against this background, this paper introduces the concept of Circulation Factories which combines manufacturing with remanufacturing and recycling into one integrated system. Circulation Factories will enable the realization of an industrial symbiosis transferring waste to value. Drivers and challenges are discussed.
AB - Manufacturing companies are increasingly perceived not only on the basis of their products but also of their factories and their embedding within the environment. For this reason, both existing and future factories face the challenges posed by a dynamic and changing market environment. Thus, a gradual change from a throughput to a circular economy leads to the emergence of two categories of factory systems. One category is producing goods, while the second one is recovering and treating waste, residues and the rest of the product at the end of its life. Against this background, this paper introduces the concept of Circulation Factories which combines manufacturing with remanufacturing and recycling into one integrated system. Circulation Factories will enable the realization of an industrial symbiosis transferring waste to value. Drivers and challenges are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.procir.2015.02.032
DO - 10.1016/j.procir.2015.02.032
M3 - Conference article
VL - 29
SP - 627
EP - 632
JO - Procedia CIRP
JF - Procedia CIRP
SN - 2212-8271
T2 - 22nd CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, LCE 2015
Y2 - 7 April 2015 through 9 April 2015
ER -