The Role of Laser Additive Manufacturing Methods of Metals in Repair, Refurbishment and Remanufacturing – Enabling Circular Economy

By Maija Leino, Joonas Pekkarinen, R. Soukka. 2016

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Abstract Circular economy is an economy model where products, components, and materials are aimed to be kept at their highest utility and value at all times. Repair, refurbishment and remanufacturing processes are procedures aiming at returning the value of the product during its life cycle. Additive manufacturing (AM) is expected to be an enabling technology in circular economy based business models. One of AM process that enables repair, refurbishment and remanufacturing is Directed Energy Deposition. Respectively Powder Bed Fusion enables manufacturing of replacement components on demand. The aim of this study is to identify the current research findings and state of art of utilizing AM in repair, refurbishment and remanufacturing processes of metallic products. The focus is in identifying possibilities of AM in promotion of circular economy and expected environmental benefits based on the found literature. Results of the study indicate significant potential in utilizing AM in repair, refurbishment and remanufacturing activities.

Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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In Automotive Engineering

1. G. Marchese
2. A. Aversa
3. Mariangela Lombardi
4. Paolo Fino
5. A. Saboori
6. Sara Biamino

In Mechanical Engineering

1. A. Saboori
2. G. Marchese
3. A. Aversa
4. Mariangela Lombardi
5. Paolo Fino
6. Paolo Rosa
7. Sara Biamino

Citations in the corpus

• Application of Directed Energy Deposition-Based Additive Manufacturing in Repair (2019, methodology): “Following the recent research in the development of production processes, additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have been introduced as new techniques that can support environmental sustainability in manufacturing field [1,4,5].”
• Assessing relations between Circular Economy and Industry 4.0: a systematic literature review (2019, methodology): “Others presented the idea of using AM to support the remanufacturing of products or components (Lahrour and Brissaud 2018; Leino, Pekkarinen, and Soukka 2016), the development of CBMs focused on recycled materials (Mattos Nascimento et al. 2018); (Millard et al. 2018), the exploitation of…”