Parametric Remanufacturing Configurator for Lighting (PRCL)

灯具制造保留了“废弃”灯具中的金属和塑料部件，同时将关键的电子部件升级到最新技术。与制造所有新产品相比，这带来了材料成本降低15%-30%，碳含量降低25%-70%的阶段性变化。这种方法有可能从根本上减少照明行业的金属和塑料垃圾，估计为1.65亿GB/年的可回收价值，从而保留英国供应链的价值。EGG正在努力支持英国照明再制造行业的发展，该行业将收集和再制造以数字制造和数字护照为基础的客户规格的二手商业照明。我们2020年与斯特拉斯克莱德大学合作的白皮书为行业提供了所需的核心模型和术语，我们现在正在主导起草英国灯具再制造标准。该行业研究项目旨在开发和测试照明参数再制造配置器(PRCL)；该工具将使我们能够提供适合数字时代的再制造模型。PRCL将大幅缩短客户订单的交货期，显著提高我们的效率，从而使第一个针对商业灯具大众市场的可信再制造服务成为可能。这个雄心勃勃的项目提出了灯具制造和再制造方式以及再制造本身的新愿景-它将颠覆英国照明市场，有利于循环经济方法和高技能的英国运营商，并将成为更广泛的再制造行业的一个有价值的案例研究。

Luminaire remanufacture retains metal and plastic components in "waste" luminaires while upgrading key electronic components to the latest technology. This unlocks step-change reductions of 15-30% in materials costs and 25-70% in embodied carbon compared to manufacturing all new products. This approach has the potential to radically reduce metal and plastic waste in the lighting industry, estimated at £165m/year recoverable value, thereby retaining value in the UK supply chain.EGG is working to support the development of the UK lighting remanufacture sector, that will collect and remanufacture used commercial lighting to customer specifications, underpinned by digital manufacturing and digital passports. Our 2020 whitepaper with the University of Strathclyde offered the industry the core models and terminology needed and we are now taking a leading role in the drafting of a British Standard for luminaire remanufacturing.This industrial research project aims to develop and test a Parametric Remanufacturing Configurator for Lighting (PRCL); a tool which will allow us to offer a remanufacturing model fit for the digital age. The PRCL will enable radically shorter lead times on customer orders, will significantly improve our efficiency and will therefore make possible the first credible remanufacturing service aimed at the mass-market for commercial luminaires.This highly ambitious project presents a new vision for the way in which luminaires are made and remade, as well as for remanufacture itself -- it will disrupt the UK lighting market in favour of circular economy approaches and highly skilled UK operators, and will be a valuable case study for the broader remanufacturing sector.