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Application of active disassembly to extend profitable remanufacturing in small electrical and electronic products

The paper presents the first research investigating marrying active-disassembly and design-for-remanufacture to manage small-sized Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE). It refutes accepted wisdom by showing, for the first time, how to profitably remanufacture small-sized WEEE and how cost-effective remanufacture can be extended to sectors that were not previously viable. It included case study analysis of over 15 automotive Electronic Control Units (ECUs) given they are almost impossible to conventionally, profitably disassemble cleanly. Comments include: “valuable new research foundation” (Austrian Society for Systems Engineering and Automation, bernd.kopacek@sat-research.at) and, “will assist sustainable-manufacture […] and is informative” (Wax-RDC Limited- damien@wax-rdc.com).